Keynotes

Keynote Speaker

Marisa Solomon

Marisa Solomon is an Assistant Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University, where she teaches courses in feminist intersectional science studies, environmental humanities, Black geographies, and feminist theory. Her work considers ecological politics from the position of Black dispossessed life. She has written a number of articles on the relationship between waste and Black life in the U.S., including, “The Ghetto is a Gold Mine” for the Journal of Labor and Working-Class History and “Ecologies Elsewhere” for GLQ: A Journal of Gay and Lesbian Studies. Most recently, she was invited to submit a creative sketch, entitled “The Edge of the Usual,” for the Venice Biennial on Everlasting Plastics. She is the author of The Elsewhere is Black: Ecological Improvisations of Discarded Living (forthcoming with Duke University Press) and is the former co-director of the Black Atlantic Ecologies Working Group at the Columbia Center for the Study of Social Difference, where she was affiliated with the Earth Institute.

Keynote Performer

Emily Johnson

Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. Emily belongs to the Yup'ik Nation, is a land and water protector and an organizer for justice, sovereignty and well-being. A Bessie Award-winning choreographer, Guggenheim Fellow, and recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award, Emily is based in Lenapehoking/NYC and on Haudenosaunee lands. Emily's large-scale performance gatherings insist thrivance, radical reworlding, and just futures. Emily is trying to make a world where performance is part of life; where performance is an integral connection to each other, our environment, our stories, our past, present and future.

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