INPLACE Annual Scholars Talk: Conversation with Jori Lewis, Ashia Ajani, and Beronda Montgomery
INPLACE Annual Scholars Talk: Conversation with Jori Lewis, Ashia Ajani, and Beronda Montgomery
IN-PLACE Grand Challenge 2.0, Department of Anthropology, PASA, MAPP, Wekesa,
NatureRx@UMD
Dr. Beronda Montgomery, author of When Trees Testify: Science, Wisdom, History, and America's Black Botanical Legacy, moderates a roundtable conversation with two public scholars working at the intersection of environmental studies and Black Studies, Ashia Ajani and Jori Lewis. Ashia Ajani is a storyteller and environmental educator and author of Tending the Vines: Black Abundance in Eight Plants and Heirloom. Jori Lewis is an award-winning journalist and independent scholar, and author of Slaves for Peanuts: A Story of Conquest, Liberation, and a Plant that Changed History, and the forthcoming A Natural History of the Spirits.
Event organized in collaboration with: CEDAR Gallery, IN-PLACE Grand Challenge 2.0, Department of Anthropology, PASA, MAPP, Wekesa,
NatureRx@UMD, Arts for All, and the Frederick Douglass Center.