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Climate Change and Arctic Identities: A Conversation with Michaela Stith

This event has ended. It was scheduled for 3/21/2023.

6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, March 21

Seed Lab, 111 W. 6th Ave, Anchorage

In-Person Event

Consider the impacts of a changing climate through the intersections of culture, environmental policy, and systemic racism. Join Northern Alaska Environmental Center and the Seed Lab for a presentation about climate and identity with Michaela Stith. Stith is a climate justice advocate and author of the memoir “Welp: Climate Change and Arctic Identities.” Free. Registration recommended. 

About the Speaker

Michaela Stith was born and raised in Anchorage and is now the climate justice director for Native Movement. She previously worked as a program assistant at Polar Institute, Wilson Center, where she organized the Arctic in 25 Years Youth Symposium and managed the publication “Polar Perspectives.” Previously, she worked in Tromsø, Norway as a Hart Leadership Fellow and later as an associate at the Arctic Council Indigenous Peoples’ Secretariat.

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