We're an informal group of UW grad students committed to advancing DEI and justice in the field of marine and environmental affairs. #LandBack #BlackLivesMatter
Occupied Duwamish Land
Joined October 2020
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The Director of the UW School of Oceanography has apologized for the way it handled the hiring and firing of Lou Boone as captain of the R/V Thompson:
Dr. Danielson: "I often wonder if the biggest barriers to equity are existing efforts that use the word equity in their name." ❗️❗️❗️ yeeeeepppp
Dr. Danielson: "We often hear now that racism is a public health crisis. I wonder if the people in local, county, state governance making that statement really know what that means. I wonder if 'crisis' is the appropriate term for something that has been going on for 400 years."
Currently cleansing our palate after an unproductive conversation with our college's outgoing dean by watching Professor Ben Danielson, MD present for the UW Network of Underrepresented Residents & Fellows (NURF) Diversity Lecture Series 😎✨✨✨
Currently listening to Dr. @SherryPictou's seminar for @SMEAatUW's Environmental Justice Speaker Series! Excited to hear from Sherry about Mi'kmaw feminist perspectives for the hour:
Really cool photo showing a visual recreation of the sort of abundances Indigenous people who harvest pinto abalone remember seeing over the decades:
Happening now! "Reintroducing Fishers to Their Historic Range in Washington: Culturally Competent Approaches in Conservation Biology" @UW_SMEA @UW_SAFS @UWEnvironment youtube.com/watch?v=6dzSglgA…
Happening now: Doug Walker lecture with Ayana Elizabeth Johnson!
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no, your thinkpiece in the guardian or your new article on the impacts of covid on migrant workers in [insert name of developing country] is not activism, sorry. @priyaisakutti
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Excellent explanation by Isabel about how @unredd enacts social injustice from the Global North onto the Global South! "For those in the Global South, REDD means genocide, land grabs, and displacement." 👏🏽👏🏽
Happening now! Isabel Carrera Zamanillo of @UWEnvironment's DEI office is giving a talk on "Power, Privilege, and Positionality in Conservation" for @UW_SAFS: youtube.com/watch?v=yHHrQ-pb…