Please save the date for the next CALS Lunch and Learn session! The Equity and Diversity Committee’s Lunch and Learn subcommittee invites you to attend the Nov. 21 session that will correspond with Native American Heritage Month as recognized at UW–Madison.

Event information:

Indigenous Ways of Knowing about Wisconsin’s Tribal Nations
Nov. 21, 2022
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Virtual via Zoom: https://uwmadison.zoom.us/j/93578732653

Join us for an introduction to Wisconsin’s Tribal Nations and explore some key concepts of the Indigenous world view. Leave with your own personal action plan for engaging with Native American people, students and communities that will be developed using a Native American medicine wheel.

Facilitated by Annie Jones, PhD, an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation, and a Professor, Organization Development and Tribal Nations Specialist with UW–Madison’s Division of Extension. She is also affiliate faculty with the Departments of American Indian Studies and Community and Environmental Sociology. Annie has worked with Extension for nearly twenty-five years serving in a variety of capacities including Associate Dean, Special Assistant to the Dean for Strategic Directions and as a Community Development Educator based in Kenosha County. Annie’s areas of research include indigenous methodologies like the use of the Native American medicine wheel and cultural teachings to enhance planning and evaluation. Annie specializes in participatory and community-based action research and co-leads UW–Madison’s Native Nations UW effort along with Aaron Bird Bear and Omar Poler.