Sustainability Film & Discussion Series 

Gather

7 PM, May 18

Location: 144 Noblet, Forestry Building. Refreshments hosted by Keweenaw Land Trust.

“Gather” (75 min.)

“Gather” is an intimate portrait of the growing movement amongst Native Americans to reclaim their spiritual, political and cultural identities through food sovereignty, while battling the trauma of centuries of genocide. (2020).

Discussion Facilitators

Sierra Ayres, Walking the Path Together, Program Coordinator

Sierra Ayres is a member of the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Lake Superior Band of Ojibwe. She graduated from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis in 2019 with a Masters in Social Work, and from the University of Michigan in 2017 with a B.A. in Sociology. Along with being the Program Coordinator for the Walking the Path Together program in the Department of Social Work at NMU, Sierra is a full-spectrum doula and youth sexual health educator.

Rachael Pressley, Regional Planner, Western U.P. Planning and Development Region

Rachael Pressley is a Regional Planner with the Western Upper Peninsula Planning and Development Region (WUPPDR). She works with local communities to collaboratively plan rural food systems, hazard mitigation and climate adaptation, and accessible recreation. Rachael is originally from Alaska and enjoys spending time outdoors, foraging for berries, hiking, gardening, cooking, beach combing for agates, and portrait photography. She earned a B.S. in Geology from Michigan Tech in 2014.

Cost

FREE. $5 suggested donation per film to support the Sustainability Film Series is appreciated. Make donation online or in-person at the film showing.

Cosponsored by:

Michigan Tech Office of Sustainability and Resilience, Keweenaw Land Trust, Keweenaw Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Lake Superior Stewardship Initiative, Friends of the Land of Keweenaw, Refill U.P., MTU College of Forest Resources and Environmental Science, MTU Department of Social Sciences Sustainability Science Program, MTU Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering, Michigan Tech Center for Science and Environmental Outreach, Sustainability Demonstration House, MI Tech Great Lakes Research Center, and MTU Students for Sustainability.

Questions about the film series, contact Alan Turnquist at sustainability@mtu.edu

On the MTU Events Calendar:  https://events.mtu.edu/event/sustainability_film_series_gather