Alaska Just Transition Summit 2024 Schedule

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alaska just transition summit march 18-20, 2024 | Á’akw Kwáan ALASKA JUST TRANSITION COLLECTIVE

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Summit Schedule MONDAY 8:00 8:30 Breakfast & Registration 9:00 8:00am-10:00am 9:30

AM

10:00 10:30 11:00

Welcome Ceremonies 10:00am-12:00pm

11:30 12:00 12:30

PM

WEDNESDAY

Breakfast 8:00am-9:00am

Breakfast 8:00am-9:00am

Welcome 9:00am-9:30am

Welcome 9:00am-9:30am

Keynote Alana Youth Plenary Panel Peterson & Sustainable Southeast 9:30am-10:30am Partnership Plenary Panel 9:30am-11:00am Breakout Session 2 11:00am-11:45am

Breakout Session 4 10:30am-12:00pm

Lunch 12:00pm-1:00pm

Breakout Session 1 2:00pm-3:00pm

Breakout Session 3 12:45pm-2:00pm

Legislative Plenary Panel 2:00pm-2:30pm

Keynote: Heather Kendall-Miller & Arias Hoyle/Air Jazz 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Regional Breakout 2:00pm-3:00pm

Bills to Lobby On 2:30pm-3:00pm

Break 3:00 3:00pm-3:15pm

Break 3:00pm-3:30pm

Group Photo & Break 3pm-3:30pm

Regional Breakout 3:15pm-4:30pm

Regional Breakout 3:30pm-4:30pm

Remarks from Elders 3:30pm - 4:30pm

Remarks from Elders 4:30 4:30pm - 5:00pm

Regional Shareback 4:30pm-5:00pm

Closing 4:30pm-5:00pm

Closing 5:00 5:00pm-5:15pm

Closing 5:00pm-5:15pm

4:00

Rally 10:45am-11:30am

Lunch 12:00pm-1:00pm

2:30

3:30

THURSDAY

Lunch 11:45am-12:45pm

1:00 Keynote President Richard Peterson 1:30 1:00pm-2:00pm 2:00

TUESDAY

Lobbying Day

Monday 3/18 Main Hall

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Ch’áal’

Healers Space

Lunch Session: What Does It Take to Secure Land? Creating an Eship Hub and Coworking Space in Navajo Nation

Lunch Session: Strategic Troublemaking: An Introduction to Nonviolent Direct Action

Healing Our Wombs with Ancient Wisdom

BIPOC Breakout Group

Sound Bath

Regional Breakout: Western/Northern Alaska

Breath Work 3:15-3:45 & 4:00-4:30

8:00 8:30 9:00

Breakfast & 8:00-10:00 Registration

AM

9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00

10:00-12:00 Welcome Ceremonies

11:30 12:00

12:30

1:00 1:30

PM

2:00 2:30 3:00 3:30 4:00

12:00-1:00 Non-Working Lunch

Lunch Session: Learning to Thrive: Alaska's Next Economy in a Warming World

1:00-2:00

Keynote: President Richard Peterson

2:00-3:00

Kayaaní Áwé Náakwx̱ Building a True MultiSite: Plants as Racial Democracy Medicine

3:00-3:15

3:15-4:30

BREAK Regional Breakout: Southcentral

4:30 4:30-5:00

Remarks from Elders

5:00

Closing

5:00-5:15

Regional Breakout: Southeast

Regional Breakout: Interior

Main Hall

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Learning to Thrive: Alaska's Next Economy in a Warming World

The Alaska Climate Alliance Policy Working Group will present their latest report, "Learning to Thrive: Alaska's Next Economy in a Warming World." We will ask what can we do today to move towards a truly regenerative economy?

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What Does it Take to Secure Land? Creating an E-ship Hub and Coworking Space in Navajo Nation

The opening of the Tuba City E-ship Hub was a four-year labor of love. The Navajo Nation is one of the most difficult places in the world to access land for a business. So, how did Change Holly Patterson Labs do it? Change Labs teammates Holly & Racquel (a part Racquel Black of the Entrepreneurial (E-ship) Support) share the journey of their co-founders Heather and Jessica, securing land, funding and resources to bring this dream into reality. Then, learn how it shaped and wove together a tribal community.

Ch’áal’

Non-working Lunch

Strategic Troublemaking: An Introduction to Nonviolent Direct Action

In this training we'll introduce some of the theory and practice of nonviolent direct action, including when and how tools like banner hangs, blockades, die-ins, and other creative protest tactics to drive meaningful change for justice. We'll also spend time on our feet exploring deescalation, the meaning of "nonviolent", and how to use your body to hold space.

Eleanor Gagnon Kay Brown

Brihannala Morgan

Main Hall

Building a True MultiRacial Democracy

A panel discussion with community leaders on what a multiracial democracy looks like for their community, and how they are building it.

Autumn Cantu Celeste Hodge Growden Emily Leak-Michie Meda DeWitt Rose O'Hara-Jolley

Healing our Wombs with Ancient Wisdom

In this presentation, we will share ancient practices and remedies used in traditional and folk medicine to heal the womb. Much of this wisdom was suppressed by colonization, prejudice against women, racism and modern gynecology.

However, we can take action to revive these practices and preserve this knowledge for future generations.

Christina Michelle Patterson

BIPOC Breakout Group

A space for BIPOC folks to come together for a healing moment of decompression and connection. This session will include a talking circle, somatic practice, and other tools for healing decided by the group.

Corlé LaForce

Sound Bath

A sound bath is a meditative experience where those in attendance are “bathed” in sound waves. These waves are produced by various sources including healing instruments and the human voice.

Kristin Mabry

Healers Space

Ch’áal’

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In this workshop, we will explore plants as our relatives, ancestors, medicines, and foods. We will learn about the Respectful Harvesting Guidelines and healing medicines while learning the social-emotional skills that these plants teach us.

David Abad Through this workshop, we will gain new appreciation and Disney Williams Kayaaní Áwé Náakwx̱ understanding of Indigenous ways while strengthening Heather Evoy Site: Plants as Medicine relationships with the land and our community. In addition to Jamiann S'eiltin Hasselquist the presentation, attendees will get the opportunity to take part Tia Holley in a plant medicine activity. This workshop is led by members of the Kayaani Sisters Council and Haa Tóoch Lichéesh Coalition members & staff.

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Breakout Session 1

Tuesday 3/19 Main Hall 8:00

8:00-9:00

Breakfast

9:00 9:00-9:30

Welcome

8:30

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Ch’áal’

Healers Space

AM

9:30 Keynote: Alana Peterson & 10:00 9:30-11:00 Sustainable Southeast Partnership Plenary Panel 10:30 11:00

Resourcing the Movement: Technical Assistance and 11:00-11:45 Federal Funding Opportunities for Energy 11:30 and Environmental Justice

The Tools of Alaska Asserting Tribal Rights Native Subsistence, Circular Economies Indigenous Knowledge, Across the US/Canadian Border and Waste and a Just Energy Transition

12:00

12:30

11:45-12:45 Non-Working Lunch

1:00 1:30 12:45-2:00

Reclaiming Sacred Spaces

PM

2:00 2:30 2:00-2:30

Legislative Plenary Panel

3:00 2:30-3:00

Bills to Lobby On

3:30 4:00 4:30

Lunch Session: Lobbying 101

Lunch Session: The True Nature of the Lunch Session: Fossil Fuel Industry: Indigenous How to Stop the Environmental Network Meet & Greet Money Pipeline Fueling the Climate Crisis

Alaska Youth for Environmental Action: What the Youth Want You to Know!

Arts in Action: Screen Printing as a Tool for Change Makers and Organizers

3:00-3:30

3:30-4:30

Healing from White Supremacy: Identifying Making Medicine: Internalized White Prayer Ties Superiority in Ourselves

BREAK Regional Breakout: Southcentral

5:00 4:30-5:00

Regional Sharebacks

5:30

Closing

5:00-5:15

What Constitutes Healing

Regional Breakout: Southeast

Regional Breakout: Interior

Regional Breakout: Western/Northern Alaska

Yoga

The Tools of Alaska Native Subsistence, Indigenous Knowledge, and a Just Energy Transition

Asserting Tribal Rights This presentation will explore the legal pathway the Southeast Across the US/Canadian Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission is using to assert Guy Archibald our right to self-determination over mining projects occurring Border within our traditional territories now inside Canada.

Right now, many of our material systems are linear. We extract raw materials (often destroying land and water), manufacture goods (with high GHG emissions), use products for a relatively short period of time, and then pollute our land and water with the resulting trash. This pattern holds true for electronics, clothing, household goods, and more. Linear material systems Circular Economies and are one of the biggest problems we need to work through in Dyani Chapman Waste order to limit climate change, especially if we want to simultaneously protect our air, water, and land. Fortunately, there is plenty of wisdom to draw on for a different and better approach.This presentation will cover background on the problem, what circular, regenerative, and sustainable economies could look like for material goods, and some practical steps to begin tackling some of the most egregious material systems.

Healers Space

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In this session, I will share some of my research exploring how renewable energy development could impact Alaska Native subsistence stemming from summer 2023 work in Cantwell, Alaska. I’ll begin by explaining my understanding of Indigenous Knowledge, how its been impacted by past energy development, and the importance of choosing a research question that answering will build the community that I am learning from.

Then I’ll explain my methods, how I learned from my people in Yedatene Na’ through semi-structured interviews, observations Tvetene Carlson in community meetings, and going hunting and berry picking.

From these methods I learned about how my people had their own energy transition from a strictly hunting way-of-life to one that practices our subsistence using fourwheelers, snowmachines, and chest freezers that use our modern oil and gas energy system. A Just Transition must address what tools our subsistence ways-of-life will be practiced with, what will power them, and with direction from the communities who will be using these tools to live their subsistence ways-of-life.

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Resourcing the Movement: Technical Assistance and Federal Funding Opportunities for Energy and Environmental Justice

This interactive session will introduce the University of Washington Center for Environmental Health Equity, one of two EPA Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers serving frontline community-based organizations and tribes in the Pacific Northwest, and preview a few current and upcoming Esther Min federal funding opportunities to advance environmental and Leah Wood energy justice work in Alaska. We will also seek input on how our Center can best support Alaskan communities in achieving their vision for a Just Transition and share availability for additional one-on-one or small group conversations.

Ch’áal’

Main Hall

Breakout Session 2

What Constitutes Healing: Exploring and Identifying Healing Beliefs and Practices

This hour-long workshop is intended to create a dialogue among the participants and healer, exploring and identifying the elements (the essential parts, aspects) of healing.

Amalia Monreal

Main Hall

Tuesday Lunch Sessions

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Indigenous Environmental Network Meet & Greet

Meet representatives from three Indigenous Environmental Network programs to learn about education, information, and resources available to Frontline communities. We have staff Loren White Jr/ Arikaramembers who will speak about Indigenous Just Transution Principles, the development of IJT curricula, how to identify false Hidatsa-Mandan Panganga Pungowiyi climate solutions to climate change that actually prolong the Talia Boyd fossil fuel era and cause more harm to Mother Earth, and BIPOC Communities. Learn about the importance of Free Prior and Informed Consent, and the need for a Just Transition away from fossil fuels and Mining.

The fossil fuel industry is the primary driver of the climate crisis, The True Nature of the in the past and at present, with its unwavering greed and Fossil Fuel Industry: How outrageous plans to expand production instead of transitioning.

In this presentation we will explain how the industry wields its Doug Woodby to Stop the Money enormous wealth and power to derail the transition, and how we Pipeline Fueling the and other activist groups are working to stop the money Climate Crisis pipeline that is funding climate chaos. We'll highlight some success stories and what we as citizens can do.

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Lobbying 101

Gain tips and strategies for effective advocacy. From building relationships with policymakers to crafting compelling messages, this presentation equips you with the tools needed to Frances Leach make an impact. Whether you're a seasoned advocate or new to lobbying, this session will enhance your skills and empower you to drive change effectively.

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Non-working Lunch

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Alaska Youth for Environmental Action: What the Youth Want You to Know!

Alaska Youth for Environmental Action is a program of The Alaska Center Education Fund that inspires and trains rural and urban youth leaders to impact environmental issues by providing leadership skills training and supporting youth-led community action projects and campaigns. AYEA's Youth Delegates are coming to the Just Transition Summit fresh out of their 2024 AYEA Civics Summit, where they met with legislators in the State Capitol and advocated for issues that affect their communities, particularly around food security. These youth are experienced organizers, caring community members, and advocates for a better future for Alaska.

Arts in Action: Screen Printing as a Tool for Change Makers and Organizers

This presentation will begin with an introduction to Arts in Action and visual strategy, and will provide examples and tips for visuals in campaigns/movements. The second half of the presentation will Jessica Thornton be a hands-on screen printing demonstration, where participants will get the chance to learn how to screen print their own patch.

Ch’áal’

Main Hall

Reclaiming Sacred Spaces

This discussion will touch on subjects surrounding recentering Tlingit Governance through Clan houses and the complexities with BIA managed lands, Native allotments, land management in perpetuity, and merging Tlingit beliefs while navigating Western Legal framework. We will review historic preservation, our lack of Barbara BlakeDr. inclusion in preservation of culturally historic spaces and buildings, Forest Haven and the need to decolonize frameworks surrounding the Secretary Jerrick Hope-Lang of Interior’s standards for historic preservation. Grant seeking can President Richard be rooted in colonial beliefs and legal mechanisms that prevent Peterson Indigenous people from being applicable to seek grants on behalf of themselves and their clans. The audience will learn how systems could work cohesively to support Land Back on a local level for clans to be able to recenter themselves in their roots.

Sheiyí

Breakout Session 3

Daniel Cheney Kai Thomas Sean Phillips Taralynn Chesley Zaiden JosephMoseley

When it comes to white people showing up for Alaska’s Just Transition, we need to start with looking internally. White supremacy is present in our individual actions, our familial norms, our supervising styles, our organizational policies, and our environmental conservation attempts. It’s a part of all societal norms. But how do we identify it? How do we hold ourselves accountable so BIPOC people and communities don’t have to? We Healing from White Supremacy: Identifying address our internalized white superiority: Our fear (of open conflict), believing there is one right way, paternalism, objectivity, Frana BA Internalized White Superiority in Ourselves being qualified, perfectionism, binary & either/or thinking, quantity over quality, worship of the written word, individualism, defensiveness and denial, right to comfort, power hoarding, and urgency in all things.

Healers Space

This workshop is recommended for white identifying folks. For BIPOC folks interested, this is likely going to be an unsafe space.

Making Medicine: Prayer Ties

Making Medicine, is an experiential and interactive activity involving the teaching and making of prayer ties. The healer will treat this workshop as though the participant was stepping into a philosophy course and learning philosophical thought and approach of other tribes and indigenous communities.

Amalia Monreal

Wednesday 3/20 Main Hall 8:00

8:00-9:00

Breakfast

9:00 9:00-9:30

Welcome

8:30

AM

9:30 10:00

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Sheiyí

Military Contamination and Militarization in Traditional Healing 11:00 10:30-12:00 Alaska: Issues of Decolonizing Gender Services: Ceremony Environmental Justice, and Land Based Ways Health, and Human Rights 11:30

12:00

1:00 1:30

PM

2:00 2:30 3:00 3:30 4:00 4:30 5:00

Healers Space

9:30-10:30 Youth Plenary Panel

10:30

12:30

Ch’áal’

12:00-1:00 Non-Working Lunch

1:00-2:00

Keynote: Heather KendallMiller and Arias Hoyle

2:00-3:00

Regional Breakout: Southcentral

3:00-3:30

Lunch Session: Alaska Native Language Environmental Glossaries

Lunch Session: Scrubbers: A False Solution to Cruise Shipsʼ Dirty Fuel Problem

Lunch Session: Screening of 'A Beautiful Place' Film, set in Golovin, Alaska

Regional Breakout: Southeast

Regional Breakout: Interior

Regional Breakout: Western/Northern Alaska

GROUP PHOTO & BREAK

3:30-4:30

Remarks from Elders

4:30-5:00

Reflections & Closing

Engaging Underrepresented Voices in Climate Research: Addressing data gaps and associated barriers to Just Transition

Yoga

The Healing Power of Talking 2:00-2:20pm & 2:40-3: 00pm

Main Hall

Traditional Healing Services: Ceremony and Land Based Ways

This will be an overview of the science of the sacred and land based healing including an experiential session where participants will be break out into small groups to reflect on resiliency and goals and create their own medicine bundle.

Decolonizing Gender

This training uplifts Indigenous worldviews of genders so we can heal from western colonial impositions of binary gender constricts. We put forward ways of being around gender that honors all genders for their full selves. The training includes Oliviah Franke group agreements, foundations of terminology, unpacking the Sasha Kramer patriarchy, Indigenous feminisms, and Indigenous gender constructs. The training is a presentation format with group activities and personal story interwoven. If participants walk away with a more fluid and expansive understanding of genders and self reflection than we consider that a success!

Engaging Underrepresented Voices in Climate Research: Addressing Data Gaps and Associated Barriers to Just Transition

The Engaging Underrepresented Voices in Climate Research project (EUV) is an exploratory study into factors at the intersection of climate change and race, as well as their potential contributions to racial disparities affecting Black and Asian-, Pacific Islander-, Desi-American (APIDA) residents of interior Alaska. During this 90-min workshop we will share and collaboratively explore with participants the findings of our research. Through dialogue we will increase understanding of existing barriers to just transition for understudied populations in the state and strategize ways research can contribute to overcoming those barriers.

Yoga: Navigating Change

This class will be a gentle practice addressing emotions like anxiety, anger, grief and overwhelm in the midst of the ever changing world. Experience the power of cultivating compassion for our planet, its inhabitants and ourselves. Tending to the Aims Villanueva body, mind, and soul connection is a way to bring alignment to our efforts and energies, personally and collectively. Safe and welcoming for all levels.

Healers Space

Ch’áal’

Sheiyí

Military Contamination and Militarization in Alaska: Issues of Environmental Justice, Health, and Human Rights

The U.S. military is the world’s largest polluter and largest institutional user of fossil fuels. Alaska has been a site of great strategic importance to the Department of Defense, from World War II through the Cold War and into present times. There are Cami Diaz Egurrola more than seven hundred former and currently used military Jaron Browne sites in Alaska, many in close proximity to Alaska Native communities, that are contaminated with hazardous wastes. Five Ofelia Sanchez military bases in Alaska are designated Superfund or National Pamela Miller Dr. Samarys Seguinot Priorities List sites and among the most polluted sites in the nation. Information about the sites is often shrouded in secrecy. Medina Vi Pangunnaaq Waghiyi This workshop will examine the harm and violence caused by the military and militarization in Alaska (and beyond) and also discuss how to hold the military accountable and prevent further harm through community-based research, organizing, and advocacy.

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Breakout Session 4

Dr. Allison Kelliher

Alyssa Quintyne Tracie Curry

Main Hall

Wednesday Lunch Sessions Non-working Lunch

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Alaska Native Language Environmental Glossaries

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In coastal Alaska, the ocean is our breadbasket. We rely on clean water and healthy habitat for our food and our economy.

The use of dirty bunker fuel and exhaust gas scrubbers by cruise ships visiting Alaska threatens the health and productivity of our waters. There is a simple solution: burn cleaner fuel. This presentation will discuss the reasons behind Scrubbers: A False the recent introduction of exhaust gas scrubbers onboard cruise Solution to Cruise Shipsʼ ships that visit Alaska, how they work, the large volume of toxic Aaron Brakel Dirty Fuel Problem wastewater that they now produce while traveling between our communities, risks to organisms, and the path forward. This story presents a stark contrast between corporate cost avoidance and safer environmental practices and this presentation is intended to raise awareness with a broader Alaskan audience as part of an effort to bring an end to exhaust gas scrubber pollution of our waters.

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This workshop will introduce the idea of creating an Alaska Native language glossary of environmental terms related to how our ancestors interacted and thrived within the Arctic landscape. With climate change, some of these terms may not adequately describe the environment anymore. There is a need to create new terms in our Alaska Native languages to describe new environmental changes and to teach them to our youth.

This could be helpful because accurate terms can improve the Annauk Olin safety of hunting and gathering our foods that support our way Rochelle Adams of life, but also establishes a way for our languages to survive into the future. Sometimes the terms “environment”, “climate change”, and “just transition” become problematic because they come from the English language. This workshop proposes that we tap into the wisdom of our Alaska Native languages to create similar terms or the “cultural counterpart" that align with our value and knowledge systems.

Join in for a new-film screening and discussion of "A Beautiful Place" (2024), a 27 minute documentary set in Golovin, a coastal village in Western Alaska, 70 miles east of Nome. The film traces the lives of residents as they confront an Climate Crisis and increasingly severe climate crisis, coastal erosion, and Community Vision: challenges securing adequate government support. As Golovin Atman Mehta Screening of 'A Beautiful works on planning a relocation of homes and public Place' Film, Set in infrastructure further inland to protect from extreme weather, Golovin, Alaska the film hopes to amplify community perspectives and support discussions regarding the needs to accomplish future plans. The film welcomes discussion, exploring both adversities and community members' aspirations for their home.