The 2023 Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples Lecture will feature Jen Rose Smith, an assistant professor of Geography and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The lecture will take place on May 2, 2023 at 7 pm at the Many Nations Longhouse at the University of Oregon. 

Jen Rose Smith (dAXunhyuu) is an assistant professor of Geography and American Indian Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her Ph.D. in Ethnic Studies from UC Berkeley. A recipient of fellowships from the ACLS, Ford Foundation, and the UC President’s Postdoctoral Program, Smith works at the intersection of race, indigeneity, and anti-coloniality in Alaska and the Arctic. She serves on the advisory board for the Eyak Cultural Foundation, a non-profit that organizes annual language and cultural revitalization gatherings in their homelands of Eyak, Alaska. She is working on a book manuscript called Icy Matters: Race Indigeneity and Coloniality in Ice-Geographies and has published in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Vogue Magazine, and The Geographic Journal. Smith is also part of the Editorial Collective at ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies.