Registration is open for the Saving Special Places virtual conference, via Zoom, on April 1 and April 2, 2022!
It's New Hampshire's annual land conservation conference presented in partnership with the Forest Society.We are excited to present two keynote speakers this year. Join us April 1 to hear Robin Wall Kimmerer speaking on the topic of "Restoration and Reciprocity." On April 2, we close the conference with "Tough Questions – A Conversation with Carolyn Finney", author of Black Faces, White Spaces.
And we also have a great slate of workshops. Visit the conference website for details, how to register and sign up for workshops: savingspecialplaces.org
Registration for this virtual conference is $40 and more information can be found here from UNH Extension.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
April 1: Robin Wall Kimmerer, author of Braiding Sweetgrass
Dr. Kimmerer is a mother, plant ecologist, writer and SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York. She serves as the founding Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment whose mission is to create programs which draw on the wisdom of both indigenous and scientific knowledge for our shared goals of sustainability.
April 2- Carolyn Finney, author of Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African-Americans to the Great Outdoors.
Carolyn Finney, PhD is a storyteller, author and a cultural geographer. She is deeply interested in issues related to identity, difference, creativity, and resilience. Carolyn is grounded in both artistic and intellectual ways of knowing - she pursued an acting career for eleven years, but five years of backpacking trips through Africa and Asia, and living in Nepal changed the course of her life. Motivated by these experiences, Carolyn returned to school after a 15-year absence to complete a B.A., M.A. (gender and environmental issues in Kenya and Nepal) and a Ph.D. Along with public speaking, writing, media engagements, consulting & teaching (Wellesley, UC Berkeley and the University of Kentucky), she served on the U.S. National Parks Advisory Board for eight years which assists the National Park Service in building relationships of reciprocity with diverse communities.
