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Evergreen kicks off its Winter 2021 Climate Justice Series with: Ellen Marie Jensen, Ph.D. visiting “Climate Change & Colonization in the Arctic: Who are the Sámi?” (hosted by Marja Eloheimo) as guest commentator on a panel discussion among Sámi climate change experts. 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.
This presentation is part of an ongoing series on Climate Justice and Resilience, presented by The Evergreen State College. For more information, and to access zoom links and the upcoming schedule visit: https://sites.evergreen.edu/climatechange/speaker-and-event-series/
