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Tribal Research Partnerships: Indigenous Agroforestry, Food Security and Sovereignty Webinar Registration

Jessica Shade
Last edited by Marie Ruemenapp

Hi Everyone,

Iā€™m happy to share that our next installment in the Transdisciplinary Webinar Series is open for registration! Details are below.

Registration Link: https://www.nal.usda.gov/events/transdisciplinary-approaches-webinar-may2024

Title: Tribal Research Partnerships: Indigenous Agroforestry, Food Security and Sovereignty

Date: Weds. May 29, 2024. 2:00pm-3:30pm ET

Description:

Join us for a webinar series highlighting opportunities and challenges of transdisciplinary approaches within Tribal agroforestry and food security research. The panel will include a diversity of Tribal, Academic, Non-Governmental Organization, and US Department of Agriculture transdisciplinary research approaches, how and in what ways this research is serving tribal communities, and overcoming challenges. Panelists will share information about what processes fosters success among research partnership teams, and highlights the role of partners in large-scale projects.

Moderator/co-organizer:

  • Frank K. Lake, USDA Forest Service

Panelists:

  • Jennifer Sowerwine, Associate Professor of Cooperative Extension, Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management, University of California, Berkeley
  • Vikki Preston, Cultural Resources Tech lll, Karuk Tribe Department of Natural Resources
  • Heather Rickard, Plants Program coordinator. Karuk Tribe Department of Natural Resources
  • Kathy McCovey, Karuk Cultural Practitioner and NIFA AFRI and other food security project mentor and research partner
  • Stephanie Gutierrez, Forest and Community Program Director, EcoTrust. Current Principal Investigator lead for a NIFA funded/supported PNW Tribal Agroforestry project

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