Former Guest Speakers for Sowing Post Capitalist Seeds
We've had an incredible line up of speakers for Sowing Post Capitalist Seeds over the years. Read a little bit more about them here and check out their work.
Ongoing Guest Speakers
Tiana Dodson has been a speaker since Spring 2020.
Tiana Dodson (she/her) is a fat, Body Liberation Coach and Facilitator who’s out to destroy the belief that you have to be skinny to be happy and healthy, loveable, or worthy. Through her work with the Fat Freedom programs, she guides people feminine-of-center to reconnect with their bodies, destigmatize fatness, and learn about the harms of health being a measure of worth... all while finding how they can live their best fat lives.
https://tianadodson.com
Alexis P. Morgan has been a speaker in our course since Spring 2020.
Alexis P. Morgan (she/they; demon femme; queer) is a bon vivant muse, multi-disciplinary artist, and ancestral sorceress, devoted to the work of radical luxury as apocalypse medicine. Always making some sort of mischief, she aspires to inherit the title of "the most exciting [femme] in the world” from Eartha Kitt, by way of a vivid + kindly phantasm of the late Orson Welles. When not doing whatever the fuck she wants, she’s doing whatever the fuck she wants and getting paid for it. Find out more here.
The Legacy of Colonialism - Panel from Fall 2021
Clara Mejías (she/her) is a black trans woman, illustrator and student who lives at the intersections of blackness and transness in an impoverished region of the South American continent. Find out more about her here.
William Murdoch (he/him) is a member of the Fisher River Cree Nation. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Canadian History from the University of Winnipeg, with an emphasis on First Nations history, from contact to the 1950s. He was partly raised by his grandparents, who taught him First Nations values. He is a Sundancer and Pipe Carrier and currently lives in Winnipeg, Canada.
Anu Priya (she/they) is a values-based anti-oppression and EDI trainer, facilitator and consultant with over a decade's experience in the not-for-profit sector in India and the UK. Central to their experiences as a queer, migrant, person of colour is a strong understanding and lived experience of systemic oppression. All of their work is rooted in and driven by their experiences and values of authenticity, transparency, accountability and learning. Find out more about her work here.
The Legacy of Colonialism - Panel from Spring 2021
Pampi Das, (they/them) A 20+ year newcomer-settler of Turtle Island (currently in residency on Pennacook / Sokoki territory), Pampi Das (they/them) is a nonbinary second-genx casteD-Bengali culture worker who plays at the intersection of healing and popular education. As an expressive arts performer and dedicated culture worker, they use poetry, dance and community gardening to encourage people to materially shift the way that we look at the earth, the soil, and all those who hold us. To this end they facilitate a series of workshops that help people untangle the conflicting value systems that inform the way we move in the world, named “Pathways to Reconciliation, Restitution and Reciprocity”
Pampi is a founding member of Neighborhood Grow Plan, established in the spring of 2020. The program supports families who rent property in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan to grow food where they live. They are dedicated to the great work of liberation through land and food sovereignty and the struggle for living wage by reclamation of unskilled work as in fact so very skilled and essential. www.instagram.com/thirdeyefell
Pampi is a founding member of Neighborhood Grow Plan, established in the spring of 2020. The program supports families who rent property in Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan to grow food where they live. They are dedicated to the great work of liberation through land and food sovereignty and the struggle for living wage by reclamation of unskilled work as in fact so very skilled and essential. www.instagram.com/thirdeyefell
lin migiziikwe gokee (they/them) is a two spirit anishinaabe artist, water protector, witch, performer, facilitator, and consultant. they are from the red cliff reservation in northern wisconsin. they spend their time in wisconsin, minnesota, maine, oregon, and washington. lin has a B.A. in american indian studies (gender studies minor) from the university of minnesota duluth and has professional experience as a domestic violence/sexual assault victim advocate, community organizer, sexual health educator, and youth engagement specialist/coordinator. they present workshops and trainings, organize events, consult with community groups, businesses, and nonprofit organizations, play the ukulele, and dabble in standup comedy. Connect with them here.
Veronica King (she/her) is a South African master facilitator, executive coach, social justice advocate and family constellation facilitator. She is the founder and CEO of Emuthini Consulting which she established in 2002. Veronica has worked across a wide range of sectors and has developed a deep knowledge of organisational development and leadership. Drawing upon extensive institutional and organisational experience at senior executive level, locally and abroad, her recent and current portfolio of work engages primarily with issues of diversity, equity and inclusion with both private and public sector clients. In recent years her work has become increasingly engaged with addressing these issues in education, policy and governance. Veronica has worked in South Africa and internationally; in the United Kingdom and on projects in the USA, India, Turkey, Israel, Dubai, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Mozambique and Swaziland. Her work is driven by a deeply held commitment to social justice and transformation in South Africa. Veronica is also a traditional healer and is passionate about healing intergenerational racialized trauma, ancestral connections and alignments. Read more about her here.
Reclaiming Ourselves from the Legacy of Colonialism, Fall 2020
Melanie Dewberry (she/her) uses the power of spirituality, language, words, and naming to remind us all how we belong to one another. She is an Indigenous Ceremonialist and is a renowned speaker on Soul Naming. In addition, her poetry, conversations, and ceremony brings a potency and clarity. Her first book, The Power of Naming, still has an impact by bringing to words a connection to the Earth and our humanity. Find out more about her here.
Land Acknowledgements and Cultural Easements, Fall 2020
Stephanie Morningstar (she/her, they/them)
Oneida Nation. Herbalist, soil and seed steward, scholar, student, and Earth Worker dedicated to decolonizing and liberating minds, hearts, and land- one plant, person, ecosystem, and non-human being at a time. Stephanie is the Coordinator of the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust, grows medicines and food for her community at Sky World Apothecary and Farm and mobilizes knowledge for Indigenous-led climate change and food sovereignty research projects for Global Water Futures.
Oneida Nation. Herbalist, soil and seed steward, scholar, student, and Earth Worker dedicated to decolonizing and liberating minds, hearts, and land- one plant, person, ecosystem, and non-human being at a time. Stephanie is the Coordinator of the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust, grows medicines and food for her community at Sky World Apothecary and Farm and mobilizes knowledge for Indigenous-led climate change and food sovereignty research projects for Global Water Futures.
Spring 2020 - The Legacy of Colonialism Guest Speaker
Jana Lynne Caldetera Umipig (she/her), daughter of Rosemarie Caldetera Umipig (Pagudpud, Ilokos Norte) and Godofredo Peralta Umipig (Santa Maria, Ilokos Sur) was born and raised on the Kingdom of Hawaii and also raised on Yokuts Territory (Stockton, CA). Her current and closest relation to land is the Lenape Territory (Bronx, NY). She is a cultural and knowledge bearer as named by her elders and does so through her multidisciplinary artistic expression/creation work, role as an education and sharer of knowledge and as an intuitive and bodywork healer in uplifting the healer within all who come to exchange with her. She has been doing direct service organizing work all over the US and Internationally in detention centers, rehabilitation centers, community centers, and the homes of those in need, for over 11 years, and have worked with primarily Youth and Indigenous communities.
Find out more here.
Find out more here.
The Legacy of Colonialism Guest Speaker - Fall 2019
lin migiziikwe gokee (they/them) is a two spirit anishinaabe artist, water protector, witch, performer, facilitator, and consultant. they are from the red cliff reservation in northern wisconsin. they spend their time in wisconsin, minnesota, maine, oregon, and washington. lin has a B.A. in american indian studies (gender studies minor) from the university of minnesota duluth and has professional experience as a domestic violence/sexual assault victim advocate, community organizer, sexual health educator, and youth engagement specialist/coordinator. they present workshops and trainings, organize events, consult with community groups, businesses, and nonprofit organizations, play the ukulele, and dabble in standup comedy. Connect with them here.
Spring and Fall 2019 Speakers
Elinor Prędota (el/el/els) is a teacher, facilitator, storyteller, coach, and founder of Resilient Activists, through which el provides learning and support for the inner and outer work of social, economic and environmental justice.
Elinor has a long and wide-ranging background in community and organisational development, spiritual counselling and ritual work, storytelling, and teaching in both formal and informal education. El is a Witch, an Interfaith Minister, and a Priest/ess/x; a queer, genderqueer, bisexual dyke; white, English, mostly middle class; chronically ill, disabled, and neurodivergent; a middle-aged, assigned female geek; and an aspiring race traitor. El lives in rural southern Scotland with els girlfriend and dog. Connect with el here.
Elinor has a long and wide-ranging background in community and organisational development, spiritual counselling and ritual work, storytelling, and teaching in both formal and informal education. El is a Witch, an Interfaith Minister, and a Priest/ess/x; a queer, genderqueer, bisexual dyke; white, English, mostly middle class; chronically ill, disabled, and neurodivergent; a middle-aged, assigned female geek; and an aspiring race traitor. El lives in rural southern Scotland with els girlfriend and dog. Connect with el here.
Amy Burnette Green (they/she) is a consulting Astrologer who delights in helping individuals and groups connect with and work in relationship to the living cycles of time. Amy’s work faces the problematic histories of astrological practice head on. They find joy in honing the tools of astrology to locate active listening spaces, patterns of avoidance, and paths to resilience. Find out more about Amy here.