On Indigenous Seedkeeping and Food Sovereignty

Thank you for joining: On Indigenous Seedkeeping and Food Sovereignty: A Conversation With Rowen White and Michelle Glowa, hosted by CIIS Public Programs, a department of California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).

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EVENT DESCRIPTION: Seedkeeper, author, mentor, and founder of Sierra Seeds, Rowen White is a passionate activist for Indigenous seed and food sovereignty. With the increasing industrialization of our food and the erosion of biodiversity within cultural contexts, Rowen works to guide and mentor mindful eaters and food/seed sovereignty leaders in their capacity to lead, vision, and nourish a deep-rooted transformation.

Rowen is a part of a growing movement to reconnect and rematriate seeds and humans back to the local land and believes in the deep healing power of food. When we restore our relationships with our ancestral foods, they help us recalibrate our deep internal knowing of who we are. This can be one of the greatest anecdotes to the diaspora of disconnection that is creating ecological and social chaos in our time.

For Rowen and many others, cultivating a culture of belonging needs to be at the heart of food systems change—inviting a diversity of perspectives and voices, cosmologies and values. Integral to a more just and beautiful food system is the way we rehydrate and integrate our cultural memories and stories, and how we regain a sense of who we are as a multitude of cultures through our foods and seeds.

Join Rowen and CIIS Associate Professor of Anthropology and Social Change Michelle Glowa for an inspiring conversation exploring Indigenous seedkeeping and food sovereignty.

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