Event Description
In her keynote address, Dr. Teona Williams will trace her journey to, through, and beyond the college—from her home in Washington D.C. and her four years in Brunswick to her environmental justice activism in Flint, Michigan and Jackson, Mississippi—and explore how her work as a scholar, activist, and teacher is rooted in the liberal arts. She will also discuss her research on a cadre of rural Black feminists, including Fannie Lou Hamer and June Jordan, who articulated expansive visions of environmental justice that encompassed food sovereignty, disaster relief, universal basic income, radical land reform, and access to food and clean water. Dr. Williams is a Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geography at Rutgers University and will be Assistant Professor of Geography beginning in Fall 2024. Her work revolves around Black Geographies, 20th century African American and environmental history, and Black feminist theory. She completed her doctoral degree at Yale University in the Departments of African American Studies and History and a master’s degree in Environmental Justice at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Teona was an Environmental Studies-History coordinate major and Africana Studies minor at Bowdoin.

Attendance
Open to the public, no attendance limit

Registration Link
https://bowdoin.campusgroups.com/environmental/rsvp_boot?id=1927593

Call for Papers Information &/or Deadline (in UTC-6)
n/a

Contact
Rosemary Armstrong
rarmstro@bowdoin.edu

Organization
Bowdoin College Environmental Studies Program
https://www.bowdoin.edu/environmental-studies/50th-anniversary/symposium.html

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