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Caroline Brewer Bio and Discussion Questions

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Graphic Recordings from 2022 Women's Forest Congress

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Graphic Recordings from 2022 Women's Forest Congress

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Click image to download a Zip file of the 11 graphic recordings from the 2022 Women's Forest Congress. Thanks to the Urban Wild Studio for so eloquently capturing the Congress proceedings.

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2022 Women's Forest Congress Declaration We, the Women's Forest Congress, convened on 17-20 October 2022 with nearly 500 participants from 38 U.S. states, three Canadian provinces, and eight additional nations, make the following Declaration in light of the unique moment in which we stand.

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Graphic Recording of June 8 virtual event

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All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis

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Amazon.com: All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis (Audible Audio Edition): Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson, Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, Katharine K. Wilkinson, Cristela Alonzo, Sophia Bush, Kimberly Drew, America Ferrera, Jane Fonda, Ilana Glazer, Julia L…

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International Women's Day 2022 - #BreakTheBias

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International Women's Day 2024 campaign theme: Inspire Inclusion

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FREE International Women's Day 2024 campaign theme resources to Inspire Inclusion - #IWD2024 #InspireInclusion

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Making the inaugural Women's Forest Congress a reality will require tremendous support from a variety of sources. As a principal actor and influential organization in the forest sector, you can support diversity, equity, and inclusion in the sector and the Women's Forest Congress in a variety of ways, including:

Encourage employees to join the working groups and/or serve on committees and allow them the bandwidth/flexibility to do so.

Encourage employees to attend and participate in the congress events (full in-person event as well as the smaller virtual events).

Be intentional about the advancement of women, and men and women of color, within membership organizations and make visible to our sectors.

Develop a set of guiding principles to address diversity, equity, and inclusion within your organization and member companies.

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WFC Needs Your Help to Make History Making the inaugural Women's Forest Congress a reality will require tremendous support from a variety of sources. As a principal actor and influential organization in the forest sector, you can support diversity, equity, and inclusion in the sector and

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Musonda Mumba is the Director for The Rome Centre for Sustainable Development under the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in close collaboration with the Italian Government’s Ministry of Environment and Ecological Transition. The Centre focuses on three priority areas: climate change, sustainable development, and nature protection.

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RESOURCES EVENTS Save the date for 2021 virtual events. Learn more PRESS RELEASES Read the latest news. Learn more IN THE NEWS

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Keep up to date on topics related the the Women's Forest Congress.

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Bio - Brandi Colander, Co-Founder, #SheWillRise

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Bio - Brandi Colander, Co-Founder, #SheWillRise

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Brandi is a problem solver and strategist with a deep passion for issues around equity and the environment. An attorney and sustainability practitioner, with deep public policy expertise, she has worked across all sectors and testified before Congress and state governing bodies. She previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management at the U.S. Department of the Interior advancing policy and regulations for the nation's four energy development bureaus as well as Deputy General Counsel for the White House Council on Environmental Quality advancing infrastructure, climate and environmental justice priorities. Prior to her federal service, Brandi was an attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council. Colander earned her Master of Environmental Management at Yale University, J.D. from Vermont Law School, and Bachelor of Urban and Environmental Planning from University of Virginia.

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Brandi is a problem solver and strategist with a deep passion for issues around equity and the environment. An attorney and sustainability practitioner, with deep public policy expertise, she has worked across all sectors and testified before Congress and state governing bodies. She previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management at the U.S.

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Remote Forest Bathing participant primer

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Bio - Alicia Woods, CEO, Covergalls Inc.

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Alicia Woods Speaks

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"Alicia joined our research & development team as a keynote speaker for our annual technical recognition event. She is a dynamic and engaging speaker and her passion shines through as she shares her unique story. Alicia's message of creativity, perseverance and understanding customer needs truly resonated with our team and they were left feeling inspired by her many lessons learned as an entrepreneur. I would suggest her for any audience looking for motivation to follow their passion, turn a vision into a reality, take risks and think outside of the box. Alicia is also a very genuine person and an absolute pleasure to work with."

JULIE MOSKALYK, SCIENCE DIRECTOR AT SCIENCE NORTH

"As one of Canada's largest science centres, we have had the pleasure to host Alicia as a speaker for a number of our engaging public events, to audiences of all ages. Not only does Alicia capture the imagination of young people, particularly young women, her spirit of innovation and entrepreneurship shines throughout her stories. Alicia's secret ingredient is her ability to share her story with her audiences, in a way that paints a vivid picture of how individuals can make a difference and create a lasting impact for the people around them. Alicia's approachability is the earmark of her presentations and role as a mentor....she's a terrific addition to any speaking event!" Hope this is helpful...feel free to edit at will!

GREATER SUDBURY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

"Alicia left our sold-out crowd feeling inspired and motivated after her keynote address at our annual International Women's Day celebration. As a leader in male dominated industries, Alicia's entrepreneurial spirit paired with her passion, knowledge and expertise makes for a dynamic delivery of her story."

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Alicia Woods is founder and CEO of Covergalls Workwear and General Manager of Marcotte Mining. Motivated to improve the underground mining experience for women, Alicia designed the first ever covergalls for women, and then successfully pitched her business on CBC's Dragon's Den in 2014.

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Word Cloud from June 8 - "Get Together, Get Outside and Let's Get Going" Event

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Word Cloud from June 8 - "Get Together, Get Outside and Let's Get Going" Event

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Graphic Recording of June 8 - "Get Together, Get Outside and Let's Get Going" Event

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Part 2 of Ladies AllRide feature

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After years of mental health struggles, then losing sight of her fitness in college, Lindsey felt lost and didn't know how to get a handle on her mental health or get her fitness back. The gym did not inspire her so she began racing Cross-Country mountain bikes in 1996 and was hooked. She has since raced Downhill, Super-D and Enduro. But her story goes way beyond racing...

THE ALLRIDE TOUR 2003-2014

After Reality TV forced Lindsey into the spotlight, she endured public ridicule and lost her self-esteem and confidence. But things changed when she met and married pro downhill mountain bike racer Kirt Voreis and learned how mountain biking can become a lifestyle. For over a decade, she traveled North America alongside her now ex-husband (divorce after 15 years was also traumatizing) promoting mountain biking as brand ambassadors, skills instructors, and racers. They ran the Fox Racing AllRide Tour, The Santa Cruz Syndicate AllRide Tour and The Specialized AllRide Tour together. They also ran the AllRide Academy kids program where they sponsored and mentored kids to give them life experiences and opportunities on the road and in the bike industry. In 2011 she became a certified mountain bike skills coach through PMBIA and ICP and her life took another turn for the better. She has since continued her coaching education through PMBIA.

Lindsey "barely survived" the TV show Survivor: Africa in 2001. She's happy to tell stories to those curious about her experiences on and after the show. She walked red carpets, was in an Eminem music video, appeared on Hollywood Squares, David Letterman, Regis and Kelly and The Howard Stern Show, to name a few. However, Survivor contributed to a long bout of low self-esteem. Mountain biking got her through, and she wants to pay it forward.

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E-book publishing in May 2021; print book publishing in June 2021 Impressive stories of women using geospatial technology to create sustainable solutions for problems that face the world.
The third volume in the Women and GIS series shows how 31 diverse women in various STEM fields discovered their passion, broke down barriers, and used maps, analysis, imagery, and geographic information systems (GIS) to advance their fields and improve the world. Sharing their experiences from childhood and throughout their careers, each woman reveals her journey in an inspiring recollection of the obstacles she has overcome, the knowledge she has gained along the way, and how tenacity and determination have helped her succeed. Each woman shares tips and words of wisdom that she's gained along the way, including:

Priscilla Mbama Abasi: "Think big! Think about going to space, think about building things no one has seen before."

Arianna Armelli: "If you are like me and crave the freedom to explore a path of the unknown, aka entrepreneurship, a career in STEM will foster the technical foundation to achieve those goals."

Gabi Fleury: "The best advice I was given starting out was 'forge your own path.' Conservation isn't a structured, straight-line career, you can get into it in many ways. This is exciting, but it also can be really challenging, because you have to be flexible, innovative, and always on the lookout for the next opportunity."

Healy Hamilton: "Success, to me, is a daily feeling that you are living true to your values, that you are meaningfully contributing to the world you want to create."

Katharine Hayhoe: "While it's important to have people you respect and trust give you feedback at key points in your career, when it all comes down to it, you have to make the decisions that feel right for you, not the ones that necessarily look best on paper. You're the one who has to live with them."

Featuring strong, persevering women from around the globe, the stories found in Women and GIS, Volume 3: Champions of a Sustainable World will inspire readers who are developing their own life stories to strive for success and achieve amazing accomplishments.

The e-book for Women and GIS, Volume 3: Champions of a Sustainable World, 9781589486386, $19.99, will be available at most online retailers.

Since 1997, Esri Press has grown to be an award-winning leader in publishing books about the science, application, and technology of GIS. With books offered in print, e-book, and web formats, it continues to develop its dedication to facilitating access to and dissemination of geographic literature through publications.

ISBN: 9781589486379 2021 320 pages $19.99

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E-book publishing in May 2021; print book publishing in June 2021 Impressive stories of women using geospatial technology to create sustainable solutions for problems that face the world. The third volume in the Women and GIS series shows how 31 diverse women in various STEM fields discovered their passion, broke down barriers, and used maps, analysis, imagery, and geographic information systems (GIS) to advance their fields and improve the world.

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Word Cloud from  March 8 - Inspire, Empower, and Build Relationships 

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Graphic Recording of March March 8 - Inspire, Empower, and Build Relationships 

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March 8 - Inspire, Empower, and Build Relationships AGENDA

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March 8 - Inspire, Empower, and Build Relationships AGENDA

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Paola Deda - Speaker bio and Speech Transcript

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Steering Committee - Womens Forest Congress

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Alicia's focus at the Endowment is socio-economic program oversight and new program development; she has spent most of her more than thirty-year career in the forest sector, where she has been able to develop programs and spearhead initiatives with positive environmental impact.

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The idea for the Women's Forest Congress germinated among women within the sector who believe the lack of female perspective is leaving a void in the sector, limiting professional participation by more women, and limiting opportunities to think about forests in new ways.

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Stakeholder Engagement

Ensure engagement and participation of diverse representation (e.g., age, career, region, background, race, etc.) across the forest and conservation community.

Mary Mayeda, Mendocino County Resource Conservation District

Vickie Roberts-Ratliff

T'arie Todman, Winston County Self Help Cooperative

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Stakeholder Engagement Ensure engagement and participation of diverse representation (e.g., age, career, region, background, race, etc.) across the forest and conservation community. Mary Mayeda, Mendocino County Resource Conservation District Vickie Roberts-Ratliff T'arie Todman, Winston County Self Help Cooperative

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Out of the evil called the Holocaust arose a witness, a voice that
even the Nazis could not silence, a voice that testified to the
power of God to overcome every wickedness and sorrow.
Corrie ten Boom is that witness and her powerful story recounts
the courage of one Christian family of Dutch watchmakers who
determined to save Jews and resistance workers from the Gestapo
forces that had overrun the Netherlands.

Following the war Corrie began to tell her story of God's
faithfulness and his mercy, even in the darkest and deepest pit.
The same faith that compelled the ten Boom family to stand firm
in the face of evil would continue to shape Corrie's life as she bore
witness to the great power of God's love to forgive, to heal, and to
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The Jesus I Never Knew

Hendrickson Classic Biographies feature enduring stories about
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compelling read. Great lives reaching across the ages to touch lives
today, encouraging, challenging, and inspiring.

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Amazon.com: The Hiding Place (9780800762346): ten Boom, Corrie, Sherrill, Elizabeth, Sherrill, John: Books

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A beautiful, deluxe edition of the #1 New York Times bestseller--with over 7 million copies sold--that will make the perfect holiday gift or treat for yourself.

A Reese Witherspoon x Hello Sunshine Book Club Pick
A Business Insider Defining Book of the Decade

"I can't even express how much I love this book! I didn't want this story to end!"--Reese Witherspoon
At once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder, Where the Crawdads Sing has touched the hearts of millions of readers around the world, and this beautiful deluxe edition features:

* new, personal note from the author
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For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life--until the unthinkable happens. Through Kya's story, Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps.

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Here's my book.
And some of the things people said about it.

"Beautiful and propulsive."
- VOGUE

★★★★ out of four
"A heartbreaking, heartwarming, best-in-years memoir."
- USA TODAY

"Alluring...courageous."
- NEW YORK TIMES

"An amazing story, and truly inspiring. It's even better than you've heard."
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"Superb."
- THE TIMES

"Fit to stand alongside the great modern memoirs."
- THE SUNDAY TIMES

"Westover writes with uncommon intelligence and grace."
- NEWSDAY

"A transformation so courageous, so entire, as to beggar belief."
- FINANCIAL TIMES

"A one-of-a-kind memoir."
- THE ATLANTIC

"Fascinating...extraordinarily evocative."
- THE IRISH TIMES

"One of the most talked-about and critically acclaimed books of the year."
- PBS NEWSHOUR/NYTIMES BOOK CLUB

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"Beautiful and propulsive."- VOGUE ★★★★ out of four"A heartbreaking, heartwarming, best-in-years memoir."- USA TODAY "Alluring...courageous."- NEW YORK TIMES "An amazing story, and truly inspiring. It's even better than you've heard."- BILL GATES "Superb."- THE TIMES "Fit to stand alongside the great modern memoirs." - THE SUNDAY TIMES "Westover writes with uncommon intelligence and grace."

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The #1 New York Times bestseller that examines how people can champion new ideas-and how leaders can fight groupthink, from the author of Give and Take and co-author of Option B

"Reading Originals made me feel like I was seated across from Adam Grant at a dinner party, as one of my favorite thinkers thrilled me with his insights and his wonderfully new take on the world." -Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers and The Tipping Point

" Originals is one of the most important and captivating books I have ever read, full of surprising and powerful ideas. It will not only change the way you see the world; it might just change the way you live your life. And it could very well inspire you to change your world." -Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and author of Lean In

With Give and Take, Adam Grant not only introduced a landmark new paradigm for success but also established himself as one of his generation's most compelling and provocative thought leaders. In Originals he again addresses the challenge of improving the world, but now from the perspective of becoming original: choosing to champion novel ideas and values that go against the grain, battle conformity, and buck outdated traditions. How can we originate new ideas, policies, and practices without risking it all?

Using surprising studies and stories spanning business, politics, sports, and entertainment, Grant explores how to recognize a good idea, speak up without getting silenced, build a coalition of allies, choose the right time to act, and manage fear and doubt; how parents and teachers can nurture originality in children; and how leaders can build cultures that welcome dissent. Learn from an entrepreneur who pitches his start-ups by highlighting the reasons not to invest, a woman at Apple who challenged Steve Jobs from three levels below, an analyst who overturned the rule of secrecy at the CIA, a billionaire financial wizard who fires employees for failing to criticize him, and a TV executive who didn't even work in comedy but saved Seinfeld from the cutting-room floor. The payoff is a set of groundbreaking insights about rejecting conformity and improving the status quo.

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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World [Grant, Adam, Sandberg, Sheryl] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World

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Dr. Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, where she holds the Huffington Foundation Endowed Chair at the Graduate College of Social Work. She also holds the position of visiting professor in management at the University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business.

Brené has spent the past two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy. She is the author of six #1 New York Times best sellers and is the host of two award-winning Spotify podcasts, Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead.

Brené's books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and her titles include Atlas of the Heart, Dare to Lead, Braving the Wilderness, Rising Strong, Daring Greatly, and The Gifts of Imperfection. With Tarana Burke, she co-edited the best-selling anthology You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience.

Brené's TED talk on the Power of Vulnerability is one of the top five most-viewed TED talks in the world, with over 50 million views. Brené is the first researcher to have a filmed lecture on Netflix, and in March 2022, she launched a new show on HBO Max that focuses on her latest book, Atlas of the Heart.

Brené spends most of her time working in organizations around the world, helping develop braver leaders and more-courageous cultures. She lives in Houston, Texas, with her husband, Steve. They have two children, Ellen and Charlie, and a weird Bichon named Lucy.

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Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

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Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. [Brown, Brené] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.

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crucial conversations: tools for talking when stakes are high

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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High [Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Stephen R. Covey] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High

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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants is a 2013 nonfiction book by Potawatomi professor Robin Wall Kimmerer, about the role of Indigenous knowledge as an alternative or complementary approach to Western mainstream scientific methodologies.

Braiding Sweetgrass explores reciprocal relationships between humans and the land, with a focus on the role of plants and botany in both Native American and Western traditions. The book received largely positive reviews, and has appeared on several bestseller lists. Kimmerer is known for her scholarship on traditional ecological knowledge, ethnobotany, and moss ecology.

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants is about botany and the relationship to land in Native American traditions. Kimmerer, who is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, writes about her personal experiences working with plants and reuniting with her people's cultural traditions. She also presents the history of the plants and botany from a scientific perspective.

The series of essays in five sections begins with "Planting Sweetgrass", and progresses through "Tending," "Picking," "Braiding," and "Burning Sweetgrass." Environmental Philosophy says that this progression of headings "signals how Kimmerer's book functions not only as natural history but also as ceremony, the latter of which plays a decisive role in how Kimmerer comes to know the living world."

Kimmerer describes Braiding Sweetgrass as "[A] braid of stories ... woven from three strands: indigenous ways of knowing, scientific knowledge, and the story of an Anishinabeckwe scientist trying to bring them together in service to what matters most." She also calls the work "an intertwining of science, spirit, and story."

American Indian Quarterly writes that Braiding Sweetgrass is a book about traditional ecological knowledge and environmental humanities. Kimmerer combines her training in Western scientific methods and her Native American knowledge about sustainable land stewardship to describe a more joyful and ecological way of using our land in Braiding Sweetgrass.

Kimmerer has said about the book that, "I wanted readers to understand that Indigenous knowledge and Western science are both powerful ways of knowing, and that by using them together we can imagine a more just and joyful relationship with the Earth." Plants described in the book include squash, algae, goldenrod, pecans and the eponymous sweetgrass. She describes the book as "an invitation to celebrate the gifts of the earth."

Kimmerer received the 2014 Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award for her book Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants. The book has also received best-seller awards amongst the New York Times Bestseller, the Washington Post Bestseller, and the Los Angeles Times Bestseller lists. It was named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub and a Book Riot "Favorite Summer Read of 2020"

Native Studies Review writes that Braiding Sweetgrass is a "book to savour and to read again and again."

Heather Sullivan writes in the Journal of Germanic Studies that "one occasionally encounters a text like an earthquake: it shakes one's fundamental assumptions with a massive shift that, in comparison, renders mere epiphanies bloodless: Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass is one of these kinds of books."

Sue O'Brien in Library Journal wrote "Kimmerer writes of investigating the natural world with her students and her efforts to protect and restore plants, animals, and land. A trained scientist who never loses sight of her Native heritage, she speaks of approaching nature with gratitude and giving back in return for what we receive." O'Brien expresses that anyone "who enjoys reading about natural history, botany, protecting nature, or Native American culture will love this book".

The Appalachian Review notes that Kimmerer's writing does not fall into "preachy, new-age, practical bring-your-own-grocery-bags environmental movement writing" nor "the flowing optimism of pure nature writing." The reader is compelled to act and change their view of the environment as the book "challenges the European immigrant ecological consciousness" through "Native American creation stories and details of sustainable, traditional, ecological management practices of Native Americans."

Kathleen D. Moore in The Bryologist says that Braiding Sweetgrass "is far more than a memoir or a field guide. I would call it a wisdom book, because I believe that Robin has something world-changing to pass along, an ethos she has learned by listening closely to plants".

The Tribal College Journal wrote "Each chapter is an adventurous journey into the world of plants." Publishers Weekly call Kimmerer a "mesmerizing storyteller" in Braiding Sweetgrass.

The Star Tribune writes that Kimmerer is able to give readers the ability to see the common world in a new way. Kirkus Reviews calls Braiding Sweetgrass a "smart, subtle overlay of different systems of thought that together teach us to be better citizens of Earth."

On Feb. 9, 2020, the book first appeared at No. 14 on the New York Times Best Sellers paperback nonfiction list; at the beginning of November 2020, in its 30th week, it was at No. 9. In 2021, The Independent recommended the book as the top choice of books about climate change.

1. ^ O'Brien, Sue (2013). "Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants". Library Journal. 138 (13): 114 - via EBSCOhost.

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Misogyny is a hot topic, yet it's often misunderstood. What is misogyny, exactly? Who deserves to be called a misogynist? How does misogyny contrast with sexism, and why is it prone to persist - or increase - even when sexist gender roles are waning? This book is an exploration of misogyny in public life and politics by the moral philosopher and writer Kate Manne. It argues that misogyny should not be understood primarily in terms of the hatred or hostility some men feel toward all or most women. Rather, it's primarily about controlling, policing, punishing, and exiling the "bad" women who challenge male dominance. And it's compatible with rewarding "the good ones," and singling out other women to serve as warnings to those who are out of order. It's also common for women to serve as scapegoats, be burned as witches, and treated as pariahs.

Manne examines recent and current events such as the Isla Vista killings by Elliot Rodger, the case of the convicted serial rapist Daniel Holtzclaw, who preyed on African-American women as a police officer in Oklahoma City, Rush Limbaugh's diatribe against Sandra Fluke, and the "misogyny speech" of Julia Gillard, then Prime Minister of Australia, which went viral on YouTube. The book shows how these events, among others, set the stage for the 2016 US presidential election. Not only was the misogyny leveled against Hillary Clinton predictable in both quantity and quality, Manne argues it was predictable that many people would be prepared to forgive and forget regarding Donald Trump's history of sexual assault and harassment. For this, Manne argues, is misogyny's oft-overlooked and equally pernicious underbelly: exonerating or showing "himpathy" for the comparatively privileged men who dominate, threaten, and silence women. l

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Author's note: After Elizabeth Warren's exit from the presidential race, many people are wrestling with the role sexism and misogyny might have played in her failed campaign. Indeed, searches for the word "misogyny" spiked 2,400 percent on the Merriam-Webster website the day she ended her campaign. The ongoing conversation brought to mind an interview I did in 2018 with philosopher Kate Manne about the differences between sexism and misogyny and why they matter. You can read our full exchange, which feels newly relevant, below.
What is misogyny? How is it different from sexism? And why does the male-dominated status quo seem to persist?

A new book by Cornell philosophy professor Kate Manne has answers. She argues that misogyny is not about male hostility or hatred toward women - instead, it's about controlling and punishing women who challenge male dominance. Misogyny rewards women who reinforce the status quo and punishes those who don't.

In this interview, we explore how sexism and misogyny are different, how misogyny is embedded in our customs and institutions, and what Trump's election and our current moment reveal about our future.

Our conversation, lightly edited for clarity, follows.

Sean Illing

Can you sum up your argument in this book?

Kate Manne

There's a tendency to define misogyny as this deep hatred in the heart, harbored by men toward girls and women. I define misogyny as social systems or environments wherewomen face hostility and hatred because they're women in a man's world - a historical patriarchy.

Sean Illing

I always thought of misogyny as an ideology: a body of ideas that exists to justify social relations. But you argue that this is sexism, and that misogyny is better understood as a moral manifestation of sexist ideology.

Kate Manne

Yeah, that's really well put. One way of looking at it is we have these patriarchal social structures, bastions of male privilege where a dominant man might feel entitled to (and often receive) feminine care and attention from women.

I think of misogyny and sexism as working hand-in-hand to uphold those social relations. Sexism is an ideology that says, "These arrangements just make sense. Women are just more caring, or nurturing, or empathetic," which is only true if you prime people by getting them to identify with their gender.

So sexism is the ideology that supports patriarchal social relations, but misogyny enforces it when there's a threat of that system going away.

"It hurts to know that the most incompetent, morally bankrupt, and ignorant white man can be elected"

Sean Illing

Misogyny, the way you define it, is something we practice almost unconsciously. We're embedded in a culture and we internalize the customs and social mores that define that culture - and thus perpetuate it. We're all implicated, even if we're not aware of it.

Kate Manne

There are relatively few misogynists as brazen or as unapologetic as Donald Trump, partly because misogynists often think they're taking the moral high ground by preserving a status quo that feels right to them. They want to be socially and morally superior to the women they target.

I think most misogynistic behavior is about hostility toward women who violate patriarchal norms and expectations, who aren't serving male interests in the ways they're expected to. So there's this sense that women are doing something wrong: that they're morally objectionable or have a bad attitude or they're abrasive or shrill or too pushy. But women only appear that way because we expect them to be otherwise, to be passive.

Sean Illing

This book calls attention to the roles we all play in society, roles that we're assigned at birth and rarely question, and how we punish people - especially women - when they defy those roles.

Kate Manne

I'm less interested in assignments of blame or holding people accountable in direct ways for their perpetuation of misogyny, and I'm more interested in having us understand the ways in which most, if not all of us, tend to be complicit in misogynistic social systems.

I wanted to know how we police women, how we keep them in their place, in their designated lane. We can combat this, and it's not like we all have to purify ourselves or something. But we have to be aware of the unconscious biases and cultural norms that sustain all of this.

Sean Illing

So you want people to think of misogyny as a kind of enforcement strategy; it's not the patriarchy itself but the thing that preserves the patriarchy.

Kate Manne

Yes. Misogyny is the law enforcement branch of patriarchy. If you think about someone like Donald Trump claiming he's the law enforcement president, I think that's right. It's the law of patriarchy, among other things, that he's enforcing. It's the law that polices and punishes women who transgress or threaten dominant men.

"We have this image of these old, predatory, powerful monsters. They totally exist, but they didn't start out that way. They start in adolescence."

Sean Illing

Did the election of Donald Trump, an open misogynist, change your thinking in any way?

Kate Manne

No, it actually crystallized it. Since August 2015, my prediction was that Trump would be elected over Clinton, and the reason would be low voter turnout for Clinton, because that's just the way these things work: the lack of enthusiasm for a woman who's up against a male candidate who talks and acts like he's the last hurrah for patriarchy. I just saw it coming the whole way through.

On election night, I wasn't shocked, but it hurts to know that the most incompetent, morally bankrupt, and ignorant white man can be elected over a woman about whom reasonable people can disagree but who was obviously more qualified than Trump.

Sean Illing

Every day, it seems, there is another scandal, another revelation about some asshole who used his power to exploit, assault, or harass women. We're having a cultural moment here. What's your read on what's happened since the Harvey Weinstein story broke?

Kate Manne

It seems to be mostly a good thing. It's certainly better than the alternative, which is these men getting away with it. But the thing that bothers me is their age. These are all men in their 50s, mostly 60s, sometimes 70s, who are being taken down well past the age of commercial viability, so they're not paying the price that they should.

The point is, we have this image of these old, predatory, powerful monsters. They totally exist, but they didn't start out that way. They started in adolescence. We are seeing this reluctance to face up to the fact that young men, even boys, can do the damage of their much older counterparts.

I wrote this book partly because I went to an all-boys school. I was one of the first three girls who attended the schoolthe year it integrated, and while my experiences weren't harrowing, they were, to put it mildly, unpleasant. And the institution just saw these boys as innocent, and didn't intervene in any meaningful way. That happens all too often.

"Misogyny is the law enforcement branch of patriarchy"

Sean Illing

What will it take to change things?

Kate Manne

I wish I knew. This time last year, I was in New York. I spent a week alone trying to write the conclusion of my book. My editor had asked me to write a prescriptive conclusion. What do we do about misogyny? I just couldn't, because I don't know. I just don't know.

I think one thing that will help is undoing the ties that bind people falsely, the false sense of moral obligation that keeps women with abusers and makes us reluctant to try to educate, to really morally educate young men not to participate in and enact rape culture.

The good news is it's becoming really obvious that women are not inferior to men in masculine-coded pursuits like math and physics and philosophy. Women are funny. Women are writers. It takes an enormous amount of willful denialism not to see that women are free-minded and creative beings just as much as men are.

Sean Illing

Culture can change pretty quickly. We've seen it happen with same-sex marriage and drug laws. But what we're talking about here is power relations - and that seems to be a different kind of challenge altogether.
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Kate Manne

When people are attached to positions they believe are their birthright, you get huge amounts of backlash. When men think women are taking opportunities and privileges away from them, when they think women are challenging male dominance, you get backlash. But we have to deal with that. Women cannot - and should not - internalize patriarchal values and give and give and give until we're nothing.

What would need to change is for men in positions of power to accept that women can surpass them without having wronged them.

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From Mount St. Helens to Baker City to the Willamette and Siuslaw national forests, Gloria Brown came to know and cherish the Pacific Northwest's forests, mountains, rivers and public lands during her decades with the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management.

By the time Brown retired in 2007, she'd achieved numerous accolades and could list accomplishments that included becoming the first black woman supervisor of a U.S. national forest. Her new memoir, " Black Woman in Green: Gloria Brown and the Unmarked Trail to Forest Service Leadership " (Oregon State University Press, 208 pages, $19.95), written with Washington State University-Vancouver historian Donna L. Sinclair, is both an inspiring personal story of a black woman's determination to excel in a white man's world and an intriguing look at the recent history and evolution of one of the most influential agencies in the Pacific Northwest.

Brown, who lives in Lake Oswego, never thought she'd become a forester. A native of Washington, D.C., she saw her office position with the U.S. Forest Service primarily as "a good government job that paid well." But in 1981, when she was a 30-year-old mother of three working as a transcriptionist by day and taking broadcast journalism classes by night, her husband was fatally injured by a drunken driver who crashed his vehicle into the Browns' car.

Brown decided she could no longer afford to start over in a new field and instead set her sights on moving up through the Forest Service ranks. She finished her journalism degree and leveraged it into an information specialist position. She also sought out mentors, who advised her that the road to advancement led away from the capital and sent her on a two-week field trip to the Forest Service's Region 6 - the Pacific Northwest Region, headquartered in Portland.

"The food was good, the scenery fantastic, and it was the cleanest place I had ever been," Brown recalls in "Black Woman in Green." "The highlight of my trip was a black bear running across Highway 101 near Cape Perpetua."

She went home deeply impressed by the West. But she also concluded that "Oregon might be a little too wild and was definitely way too white for us." A better fit, she thought, might be Region 8, headquartered in Atlanta.

The first job she got outside D.C. was a public affairs position in Region 1 - headquarters Missoula, Montana.

Brown's 1987 arrival in Montana coincided with what she describes as the Forest Service's "height of efforts to create what top leadership called a 'multicultural organization.' " One of 11 black people and three women among the region's 3,000 Forest Service workers, Brown was tapped to provide diversity training in the field. "This is where I came face-to-face with the true character of the Forest Service I had joined."

She took up the challenge with gusto, but the prejudice her children encountered at school finally led her to acknowledge that they needed to leave. "I had been naïve about Montana," she concedes in the book.

"[B]ut I'd also learned that if I set my mind to it, I could do just about anything. I had ridden a horse, set up camp, cooked outdoors, learned to fight fire, made new friends in an all-white community, helped other women, and begun to focus on civil rights."

That mix of realism and resilience permeates "Black Woman in Green." A blend of oral history and autobiography, the book strikes a conversational tone that serves readers well, especially when Brown discusses issues such as the long-running standoff over logging in the Siuslaw National Forest.

As forest supervisor there, she was lauded in 2004 for brokering what The Oregonian called "an exceptional combination of community backing, rapidly growing forests and innovative policies" resulting in "a national forest that works."

At the time, Brown told The Oregonian that her strategy consisted of investing in relationships. "We taught line officials all about trees and soils and fires and ecosystems, but we never taught them about people," she said.

People bring their own complexities to the table; Brown encountered support, skepticism, opposition and outright bewilderment as she climbed the Forest Service ladder, often finding herself the only black woman for literally miles in the wilderness. Nevertheless, she persisted, demonstrating not only an indomitable will to succeed but also why representation and inclusion matter even - or especially - atop Mount St. Helens. Her story is an invaluable addition to the story of the Forest Service.

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Vicki Christiansen

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Vicki Christiansen serves as Chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, leading a workforce of more than 25,000 permanent employees who steward 193 million acres of national forests and grasslands; support the world's largest forestry research organization; and work with states, tribes and others to sustain all forests so they can benefit all citizens, today and in the future. Over her 36-year career, she has accumulated a wealth of experience in natural resource and wildland fire management. Her commitment to the core values of the Forest Service, which are conservation, service, interdependence, diversity and safety, is evident in the priorities she sets for the agency. As Chief, Vicki is leading agency efforts to improve the conditions of America's forests and grasslands by modernizing how we do business to increase active forest management and deliver landscape conservation through shared stewardship with local, state and national partners and tribes. Vicki's focus on relationships inside and outside the agency is reflected in the Forest Service's dedication to caring for the land, communities and the people we serve.

Vicki joined the Forest Service in 2010 as the Deputy Director of Fire and Aviation Management. Prior to serving as Chief, she worked as Deputy Chief for State and Private Forestry overseeing Forest Service activities in managing wildland fire and working with our partners to sustain the health and productivity of non-federal forest lands. Prior to joining the Forest Service, she served as the Arizona State Forester and director of the Arizona Division of Forestry, where she was responsible for the protection of 22 million acres of state and private lands in Arizona. She had previously served as the Washington State Forester, the culmination of a 26-year career with Washington State Department of Natural Resources.

Angela Coleman

Acting Associate Chief

Angela Coleman serves as the Acting Associate Chief of the USDA Forest Service. Prior to this new assignment, she served as Forest Service Chief of Staff beginning in 2015, where she oversaw the Chief's Office daily operations and staff, issues management, Office of Communications and Legislative Affairs programs. She provided senior-level support to the Chief of the agency and the Executive Leadership Team to advance and deliver the agency's natural resource conservation mission.

Angela has served in numerous leadership roles with the Forest Service, to include Washington Office roles as Associate Deputy Chief, Business Operations; and Associate Deputy Chief, Research and Development. Before that, she served as Deputy Regional Forester for the Pacific Southwest Region for National Forests located in California and parts of Nevada. She also served for seven years as Regional Communications Director for the Southern Region in Atlanta. A native of Phenix City, Alabama, Angela has amassed more than 27 years with the Forest Service. She launched her career as a professional journalist with News Media conglomerate Knight-Ridder, serving as a news reporter for the Pulitzer-prize winning Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.

Angela has served as a member of both the natural resource conservation and communications communities, including The National Wild Turkey Federation and Sigma Delta Chi Society of Professional Journalists. A summa cum laude graduate of Troy University, she completed post graduate course work at American University, Washington, D.C. She also served as a Senior Executive Fellow for Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government. In 2010, Angela was sworn in as a member of the Senior Executive Service.

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