The Colorado Geographies event will feature a panel of community leaders, elders, and activists living, working, who express the everyday ways of enacting life affirming geographies in the here and now. Indigenous community leader, Shannon Francis brings a wealth of wisdom on the everyday care taking of elders, Native ecologies, and models for enacting youth education. Latine environmental justice leader, Lucy Molina brings decades of knowledge on enacting community environmental monitoring and organizing for ecological and racial justice. Ana Miller is an organizer with Housekeys Action Network, a collective of advocates for the unsheltered community. Ana brings a decade of experience in advocating for the needs and desires of the unsheltered community. The culmination of these speakers expresses the multiple ways Colorado communities are already enacting life affirming geographies.