Where environmental stewardship, Indigenous knowledge,
and storytelling converge

A roundtable culminating a weekend of dialogues between Capital Region environmental justice advocates and Indigenous planners/media-makers – building on the new PlaceKnowing podcast series to bring tools and context from global struggles to our local context.

Featuring:

Kahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore

The Aunties Dandelion media collective

& 2024 MDOCS Storyteller-in-Residence

Kahstoserakwathe Paulette Moore is an independent filmmaker, lecturer, artist and educator. Moore is Kanien’kehàka (Mohawk) and an enrolled member of Six Nations of the Grand River territory where she is based. Moore’s work focuses on restoring spiritual, physical and economic balance at the place where Indigenous ways of being meet our modern experience. Moore spent two decades based in Washington DC working as a director, producer and writer with Discovery Channel, National Geographic, PBS, ABC and other media outlets. In 2004 she began making independent, community-based films as Shenandoah University’s filmmaker-in-residence in Winchester, Virginia. In 2009 Moore began work as an associate professor of media arts and conflict transformation at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, VA. Moore recently completed Onkwawenna Kentsyohkwa – a two-year Kanien’keha (Mohawk) adult language immersion program at Six Nations and is an ACTFL intermediate high speaker. She is a PhD candidate (ABD) in Continental and Haudenosaunee philosophy at York University, Environmental and Urban Change Department.

Dr. Ted Jojola

Indigenous Design + Planning Institute

(ID+PI), University of New Mexico

Dr. Jojola has a distinguished career as an educator and practitioner in urban and regional planning and other related subjects, with particular specialty in indigenous planning. Since 1980, he has taught at the University of New Mexico. He served as director of Native American Studies from 1980 to 1996, acting director of the Community and Regional Planning Program in 1995-96 and director in 2004-05. He is an ongoing participant in the Indigenous Planning Exchange, US Department of Education since 2007. Dr. Jojola has published in many books and periodicals, and has prepared technical and commissioned research reports. Recently, he prepared Planning in Indian Country: Regional Conversations, a report of findings for eight regional tribal summits, 2007-2009 for the National Congress of American Indians (released 2011). He wrote the Legacy of the Pueblo Revolt and the Tiquex Province in an anthology of Po`pay and the Pueblo Revolt, edited by Joe Sando, Clear Light Book Publishers in 2005. He has also received many recognition awards for the merits of his work, including the Richard W. Etulain Honorary Lectureship in 2012 and distinguished professorship in 2011.

In Conversation with:

Willie White

AVillage Inc., Albany, NY

Community organizer/advocate for Ezra Prentice Homes and founder of AVillage Inc., the NGO partner organization working extensively with Radix, community youth, and residents of Ezra Prentice Homes public housing unit.

Stacy Pettigrew

Radix Ecological Sustainability Center, Albany, NY

Radix Director & Co-founder, Toxicologist, Researcher/Professor Department of Population Health Sciences at Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

Scott Kellogg

Radix Ecological Sustainability Center, Albany, NY

Radix Education Director – Co-founder, author, and Professor of Sociology at University at Albany and Bard College

A’livija Mullins-Richard

NATURE Lab, Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy, NY

Air Justice Lab (AJL) Project Lead at NATURE Lab and Outreach and Volunteer Coordinator for The Sanctuary reflect her dedication to fostering collective action and filling data gaps in underserved communities. A first-generation college graduate, she holds a B.A. in Environmental Studies with a concentration in Environmental Justice from Siena College.

Azuré Keahi

NATURE Lab, Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy, NY

A mixed race mother, grower, writer, creator and record keeper of Kanaka ‘Ōiwi, Filipino, Samoan and European ancestry based on Mohican soils of Upstate New York. Transitioning from the landscape of the Koʻolau Mountains to the Hudson Valley of the Northeast, she began to explore earthwork as healing for herself and the surrounding community led by her commitment to food sovereignty and intersectional justice.

Ellie Irons

NATURE Lab, Sanctuary for Independent Media, Troy, NY

An artist, scholar and educator living and working on Mohican land in current-day Troy, New York, USA. Currently, she works as the community science educator for NATURE Lab at The Sanctuary for Independent Media. Her most recent publication is the book Feral Hues: A Guide to Painting with Weeds (Publication Studio Hudson, 2023).