Winona LaDuke, author and activist, will speak Mar. 29 at the University of Minnesota's Humphrey School of Public Affairs about environmental justice.
Her lecture, sponsored by the University of Minnesota Women’s Center as part of its Women’s History Month events, is at 6:30 p.m. in the Humphrey School's Cowles Auditorium.
LaDuke is a founder and co-director of Honor the Earth, a national advocacy group encouraging public support and funding for native environmental groups. She works nationally and internationally on issues of climate change, renewable energy, sustainable development, food systems and environmental justice.
In her own community in northern Minnesota, she is the founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, where her work includes efforts to protect indigenous plants and heritage foods from patenting and genetic engineering.
You can register online for the free event.