Mitigating the impacts of climate change: “Wreck and reassemble”

Mitigating the Impacts of Climate Change is a series separate workshops featuring speakers who share their insights on Indigenous environmental leadership, community action, and land-based learning. 

In “Wreck and Reassemble” Marina will discuss her ongoing dissertation work. We will explore the intersection of technology and environmental justice and question the role computational tools can play in Land Defense and Land Liberation. She will share stories and tactics of industrial counter surveillance and discuss the work being done at Redistributive Computing Systems Group at Cornell University.

Speaker

Marina Johnson-Zafiris Ahkwesáhsne Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) Wolf-Clan on her mother’s side and Greek from her father’s side. She is a fourth year PhD candidate at Cornell University in Information Science, with a minor in American Indian and Indigenous studies. Her research interests focus on critical data/information studies across Haudenosaunee Territory- specifically focused on developing technologies for Land Defense and industrial counter-surveillance and designing computational systems reflective of Onkwehón:we world-views. Presently, she’s on a leave of absence from Cornell to focus as a full-time language immersion student at Ratiwennahní:rats in Kahnawà:ke.

This event has been generously funded by the Chamandy Foundation.

Audience: Concordia community and external