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APA celebrates #BlackHistoryMonth! Our Planning and the Black Community Division provides a forum to discuss and address issues of significance to the Black community. Interested in joining the Division? Learn more:

📣 Our peer-reviewed article “Green Is the New Black: The Rise of Green Marks and Possible Solutions to Greenwashing” has been published on Annales de la Faculté de Droit d’Istanbul. It has been a real pleasure to work with my dearest friend and colleague Çiğdem Yatağan Özkan for this paper and get her invaluable academic perspective. You may review the full text from here: https://lnkd.in/da3B8_Pt

Michael Neill, this quote really resonates with me. We can easily lose sight of the challenges we have already faced when dealing with creative blocks in the present. It's all fun when past successes are shared with friends, but clinging to the past can make us forget that trying, failing, building, destroying, and creating will always mostly be hard work. We might feel frustrated when thinking about past successes, forgetting what they had cost us, or becoming anxious about our immediately possible inability to repeat them, too. The Truth lies in Trust (and... WORK) when leaning into the power of creation and creativity. #powerofcreation #creativity

Next in the Restoration through Storytelling series, "A Land Stewardship Storytelling Series of East Multnomah County", gatherings designed to elevate Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) ancestral agricultural wisdom, restore and preserve cultural traditions along with uplifting storytelling as a meaningful knowledge system. This series focuses on showing how the intersections of place based storytelling and opportunities to restore cultural and community traditions are interwoven with and related to lands and waters stewardship. https://lnkd.in/gTMtsmYx

Another great SCMA alumni discussion:

Lawrentians are the best. Impressive at every turn. Here are 10 we got to know in 2023.

Happy Juneteenth! On June 17, 2021, President Biden signed legislation making Juneteenth a federal holiday, marking a significant step in acknowledging the historical and cultural importance of this day. This decision came a year after the largest social protests in U.S. history, reflecting a nationwide call for justice and equality. Recognizing Juneteenth as a federal holiday underscores the importance of acknowledging and owning our public memory. It is a day to celebrate freedom and a moment to reflect on how the United States continues to evolve towards its ideals of democracy, freedom, and justice. Although the U.S. is a work in progress, it is through the relentless efforts of countless individuals that the nation strives to fulfill its promise: to be a place where all people can realize their unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. To achieve this, we must ensure that the American narrative includes the collective journey of African Americans, particularly those descended from enslaved ancestors. One person dedicated to preserving the public record of Black lives in America, from Barack Obama to Colin Powell, is Julieanna Richardson. As the founder of The HistoryMakers, she oversees the largest collection of African American testimonies since the Works Progress Administration. I had the honor of interviewing her during the 64th annual Fulbright Association Conference, where she delivered a moving and poignant case for the necessity of documenting the Black narrative in America. Listen to our discussion about the impact of an incomplete public record of the Black experience in America. Happy Juneteenth! Let's continue to celebrate, reflect, and work towards a more inclusive and equitable future for all.

Such a powerful place full of lessons we need not repeat.

In today's ADHS blog, we share the finale of our 3-part series which celebrates Native American Heritage Month and highlights our ADHS Tribal Liasion, Gerilene Haskon! 👏 Learn more about how Geri found her life's purpose within her culture & upbringing: https://lnkd.in/gDaqvnGD

Rivers are Life began with the concept that like-minded businesses, educational institutions, non-governmental organizations and collaborators could come together to be the collective voice for rivers and help move the needle for river sustainability. We are proud to be working with some genuinely world-changing partners like Louisiana State University Center of River Studies, who make our community possible. Learn more about them in our film "Voices from the Water:" https://bit.ly/3Q0XEko