Indigenous Perspectives on Sustainability and the Arts with JoAnn Chase

Date: March 31, 2022 at 5:30 pm

Location: Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground Event Space, 808 Commonwealth Ave. Boston

This event will be live streamed here.

JoAnn Chase, (COM ’85) Director, American Indian Environmental Office, Office of International and Tribal Affairs

JoAnn Chase is a citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Indian Nation and was born and raised on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in central North Dakota. In addition to her work in the EPA, JoAnn has partnered with music icon Nona Hendryx and social justice innovator Makani Themba to launch SisterSMATR.org (Science, Math, Art, Technology, Robotics) which leverages art and community to close the gender gap in science and technology primarily with young women of color.

Presented by the BU Arts Initiative, BU Sustainability, and the Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground, part of the Indigenous Voices in the Americas Series

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