Sep 8, 2017
An interview with Dr. Rebecca Hernandez Rosser, Director of
UC
Santa Cruz's American Indian Resource Center, about a range of
issues facing indigenous communities in the United States,
including lack of access to opportunities for higher education. She
addressed the health struggles, both physical and mental, facing
Native communities and other communities of color and about the
food justice movement. She spoke about the People of Color
Sustainability Initiative, which is a
project out of the UCSC American Indian Resource Center committed
to broadening the discourse of sustainability. Dr. Rosser also
discussed indigenous cultural representations through art,
including the challenges facing Native artists within an art market
that has a
limited image of who makes up indigenous communities. we also
discussed the troubling statistics regarding the
incarceration rate of Native peoples, and her plans for the
upcoming academic year with the center.