Join Street Wise Boulder for a climate edition of our popular Art & Activism panel series as we talk with local artists, scientists, and activists about the intersections of their work, creating a collective narrative to draw hope and initiate change from in 2021.
Panelists:
Kendall Kippley, Artist & activist
Walt Meier, Scientist with the National Snow & Ice Data Center
Renee M. Chacon, Indigenous artist and activist
Kate Weiner, Creative Director of Loam, a publishing and climate activism organization
Leala Pourier, Indigenous student & activist.
Moderated by: Lindee Zimmer, Artist & activist
Tickets: $5 GA, $3 Seniors, $2.50 Students
*Masks required for this indoor event
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Kate Weiner (Creative Director) is an environmental educator, writer, and gardener. Kate is a 2015 Brower Youth Award winner, a 2017 recipient of the John Goddard Prize for Environmental Conservancy, and a 2018 Spiritual Ecology Fellow. Kate was a beneficiary of the Boulder Arts Commission Professional Development Grant as well as a 2020 Activist-in-Residence at BPL. She facilitates workshops across the country on regeneration and resilience, and has a Certificate in Permaculture Design from the Occidental Arts and Ecology Center and a Certificate in the Science and Art of Herbalism.
Leala Pourier is a youth activist and college student. Born and raised in Colorado, she is Oglala Lakota and Cheyenne River and their family is from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Leala currently attends the University of Denver and is double majoring in Creative Writing and Strategic Communications. She has served as Lead Youth Mentor and Director of Programming for Stronghold Society, which promotes physical and mental health and healthy lifestyles for both Native and non-Native communities, since they were 15. They have recently been working as the Social Media Manager for Earth Guardians and She serves on the Earth Guardians Youth Council. As a youth organizer, Leala helped plan and presented at the Zero Hour Rally in Denver, speaking about the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous women surrounding oil drill sites. While still in high school they helped plan a Day of Dialogue on environmental degradation at her school and led the workshop with the largest attendance rate of the event.
Renee Millard-Chacon is a writer, educator, Danzante Azteca, Xicana activist, and most importantly the mother of two sons. She is an indigenous womxn of Dine/Azteca descent, fighting for future generations and committed to relating climate justice to social justice. Her family is from the Denver community and she now works as a cultural educator and teacher. She has worked with the International Indigenous Youth Council, 350.org, Four Winds American Indian Council of Denver, Womxn From the Mountain, and Earth Day Live 2020, in hosting, organizing, and leading marches, workshops, and educational resources for social justice and environmental justice. She maintains her culture everyday as a Sahumadora/Malinzin in Azteca Danza for Grupo ColorAztlan in Denver and Tlahuitzcalli in Boulder. Her goal now, is to help in the circles she has the opportunity to engage in to move forward to heal through environmental awareness, transformative education, and support to diverse leaders ready to fight for future generations. She welcomes any respectful correspondence to start doing the tedious but powerful work of creating better relations in spaces that deserve to be healed because of the trauma from historical inequality and environmental racism.
Kendall Kippley is a visual artist and contemporary painter from Denver, Colorado. Kendall’s work is heavily influenced by the elements and patterns found in the mountain landscape, particularly the rock formations and dramatic weather. Her paintings are a visual record of her experiences with nature and how it inspires awe. Kate hopes that her work will contribute to the global conversation of climate change, and inspire the members of the community to change the way we connect to our planet.
Walt Meier is a senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research focuses on remote sensing of sea ice, development of new sea ice products and sea ice climate data records, and analyzing changes in the Arctic sea ice cover. He previously served as a research scientist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Cryospheric Sciences Laboratory. Other prior positions include research scientist at NSIDC, adjunct assistant professor in the Oceanography Department at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, and visiting scientist at the U.S. National Ice Center in Suitland, Maryland, . He has a Ph.D. degree in Atmospheric and Ocean Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Walt has served on numerous national and international committees and contributed to assessment reports sponsored by the Arctic Council, the National Academies, and the IPCC.
Lindee Zimmer is a muti-disciplinary artist, who has been focusing on public art for 9 years. Lindee founded and runs the Fort Collins Mural Project and is also a community organizer and active member of the Headwaters Project in Denver.
