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Dear Dr. Horn and Geographers,

Here's some more encouragement for Carolyn Finney's talk:  
Dr. Finney is an excellent speaker and a geographer with an interesting story.  She is currently a scholar-in-residence at Middlebury College (Vermont).  I heard her give a presentation via Middlebury College earlier this summer, and she and I were both on an AAG panel (celebrating John Muir) a few years ago.

--Carol Harden
Professor Emerita, UTK Geography





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Subject: [CLUBGGY] Race and Green Spaces - talk by Carolyn Finney
 
Dear Geographers and Sustainers:

Some of you may be interested in this upcoming virtual talk hosted by the New York Botanical Garden by cultural geographer Dr. Carolyn Finney.  This information was shared by Margaret Oliver, the Collections Manager in the UT Herbarium. 

[Didn't know UT has an herbarium or unsure what an herbarium is?  Check it out here:  https://herbarium.utk.edu/]

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The New York Botanical Garden will be hosting a free webinar with Dr. Carolyn Finney, author of the book Black Faces, White Spaces, on Friday, Sept. 11 from 11am-12:15pm. You can register for it ahead of time here -> https://www.nybg.org/event/black-faces-white-spaces-christian-cooper-john-muir-reclaiming-a-green-world/

Central Park birder Christian Cooper. George Floyd. Removal of Confederate Statues. Renaming of institutions.  Reparations.  Systemic Racism. What’s environment got to do with it? How do we meet this moment?  Drawing from her book, Black Faces, White Spaces, her relationships “in the field” and her lived experience, Dr. Finney explores the complexities and contradictions of our past, the realities of our present and the possibilities of our future as it relates to green space, race, and the power to shape the places we live in our own image. By engaging in “green” conversations with Black people from around the country, she considers the power of resistance and resilience in the emergence of creative responses to environmental and social challenges in our cities and beyond.

She gave a good TEDx talk this past February (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i58ayzQf4wc) and this coming webinar should be engaging as well.

Margaret Oliver, M.S.
Herbarium Collections Manager
(she / her)

The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
University of Tennessee Herbarium (TENN)
114 Temple Hall
1818 Andy Holt Ave.
Knoxville, TN 37996-2800



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Sally P. Horn, Professor
Department of Geography
304 Burchfiel Geography Building
1000 Phillip Fulmer Way
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0925  U.S.A.

phone: (865) 974-6030
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http://geography.utk.edu/about-us/faculty/dr-sally-horn/


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