Evergreen continues its Climate Justice and Resilience Series with Ellen Marie Jensen, Ph.D. visiting “Climate Change & Colonization in the Arctic: Who are the Sámi?” (hosted by Marja Eloheimo) as guest moderator of a panel discussion and conversation with seven Indigenous Sámi climate change experts in Sápmi. Dr. Jensen is both Sámi from Finnmark Province and American from Minneapolis, Minnesota. She earned her Ph.D. in Social Sciences and Humanities from University of Tromsø (UiT) – Arctic University of Norway in 2019 with the study Diasporic Indigeneity and Storytelling Across Media: A Case Study of Narratives of Early Twentieth Century Sámi Immigrant Women, and is editor of What We Believe In. Jensen also holds a Masters in Indigenous Studies and English Literature from the University of Tromsø. Her scholarship broadly addresses Sámi and Indigenous studies, feminist/gender studies, and migration. Currently, she is a guest researcher at the UiT Centre for Women’s and Gender Research. The anticipated topic of the panel discussion is “Sámi Perspectives on Green Colonialism: Responses to Climate Change.”
To view the upcoming series schedule and access the zoom link visit: https://sites.evergreen.edu/climatechange/speaker-and-event-series/
