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tUrn week Indigenous Keynote co-presented by Office of Diversity and Inclusion and de Saisset Museum
Shannon Rivers
11:45 am — 12:45 pm (online)
Join Shannon Rivers, Akimel O’otham, for an exposé on the climate crisis from a committed and visionary Indigenous leader. Each tUrn week, Shannon offers perspectives on our moral responsibility in the face of eco-terrorism and predatory capitalism.
For tUrn14 in April 2026, Mr. Rivers will focus on working from a place of balance amidst the precarity and dismantling of nature, culture, and democracy.
Shannon Rivers, Akimel O'otham, shares his insights and wisdom about maintaining balance amidst generational and extractional warfare and colonialization against people, land, law, and a liveable climate. Using several case studies in Los Angeles, he takes us through the struggle for balance happening right now in the streets, in the workplaces, in the food banks, on the Reservations, and in Indigenous people's lives throughout the land. For everyone who expects our democracy to still function, or climate success to suddenly appear on the horizon, but who has not followed the logic of extractive economies and oppression, this talk is a must hear.
Shannon Rivers calls us to recognize our role in all of this, before it is too late.
on zoom
Co-presented with 91¶ÌÊÓƵ ODI | Office of Diversity and Inclusion, de Saisset Museum, NACC | Native American Coalition for Change
