Event Details

Speaker:   Jennifer Nicklay, PhD student in Land and Atmospheric Science, University of Minnesota

In this seminar, Jennifer Nicklay (she/her/hers) will invite attendees to engage with the tensions, the disruptions, and the joys that emerge when we orient our science towards imagining and creating more just and sustainable worlds.  Jennifer is an urban gardener, community organizer, and interdisciplinary scholar. Across these roles, and inspired by abolition and anti-colonization movements, Jennifer is committed to work that builds ways of being in relationship, with both land and people, that affirms life and freedom. Yet, within her education in biology and agricultural/soil science, Jennifer often encountered norms, assumptions, and methods that perpetuated unjust relationships. Throughout her graduate program, Jennifer has focused on creating and cultivating a scientific praxis that aligns with her commitments by integrating healing, accountability, and collective learning into her community-based participatory research with urban farmers and gardeners in Minneapolis / St. Paul, MN.

Co-sponsored by the Environmental Studies and Biology Departments.