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Environmental Studies Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Action Group, Miramontes Arts and Sciences Program and the E-Center: CU Boulder Environmental Center invite you to a conversation with community leader Shannon Francis.

Shannon Francis is a Hopi and Dineh from the Southwest homelands of Arizona and New Mexico. She is Towering House clan born for Red Running into the Water clan. Her Hopi clans are Massau’, Bear Sand, and Snake Clan. Shannon comes from twelve generations of earth caretakers, ethnobotanists, and seed keepers. A certified Permaculture Design Instructor, Shannon weaves Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) with innovative science. She loves to educate on caretaking of land, water, and soil resources; preserving Native heirloom GMO-free seeds, zero waste philosophy, and how to live more harmoniously with nature. Shannon is the Executive Director for Spirit of the Sun, Inc. in Denver.

Shannon is the Executive Director for Spirit of the Sun, Inc. in Denver. Spirit of the Sun received the 2020 Human Rights Award from Youth Celebrate Diversity. Shannon co- created and led an Indigenous Permaculture Community Garden Project with the Four Winds American Indian Council. Shannon has received the Justin B. Willie humanitarian award (2014) on the Navajo Nation as well as the Cesar E.Chavez female leadership award (2015) for her work with Indigenous gardening, food justice, and community building projects.

Shannon co-created the Indigenous agricultural project at Woodbine Ecology Center in Sedalia, CO. She taught Indigenous gardening workshops Native communities at the Denver Indian Center. She has presented at the Front Range Bioneers, the Star School, Indigenous Farming Conference White Earth, MN, The Denver Green Festivals, Dartmouth College, Haskell Indian Nations College, Fort Lewis College AISES Conference, and the Teaching Outside the Box Environmental Education Conference. Shannon has six wonderful children and three amazing grandchildren that are her inspiration to make this a better world for all future generations to come.

3p-4p is the lecture with Shannon Francis 
4p-5p is a community discussion where food will be provided for students 
RSVP here

Register Here

Environmental Studies Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Action Group, Miramontes Arts and Sciences Program and the E-Center: CU Boulder Environmental Center invite you to a conversation with community leader Shannon Francis.

Shannon Francis is a Hopi and Dineh from the Southwest homelands of Arizona and New Mexico. She is Towering House clan born for Red Running into the Water clan. Her Hopi clans are Massau’, Bear Sand, and Snake Clan. Shannon comes from twelve generations of earth caretakers, ethnobotanists, and seed keepers. A certified Permaculture Design Instructor, Shannon weaves Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) with innovative science. She loves to educate on caretaking of land, water, and soil resources; preserving Native heirloom GMO-free seeds, zero waste philosophy, and how to live more harmoniously with nature. Shannon is the Executive Director for Spirit of the Sun, Inc. in Denver.

Shannon is the Executive Director for Spirit of the Sun, Inc. in Denver. Spirit of the Sun received the 2020 Human Rights Award from Youth Celebrate Diversity. Shannon co- created and led an Indigenous Permaculture Community Garden Project with the Four Winds American Indian Council. Shannon has received the Justin B. Willie humanitarian award (2014) on the Navajo Nation as well as the Cesar E.Chavez female leadership award (2015) for her work with Indigenous gardening, food justice, and community building projects.

Shannon co-created the Indigenous agricultural project at Woodbine Ecology Center in Sedalia, CO. She taught Indigenous gardening workshops Native communities at the Denver Indian Center. She has presented at the Front Range Bioneers, the Star School, Indigenous Farming Conference White Earth, MN, The Denver Green Festivals, Dartmouth College, Haskell Indian Nations College, Fort Lewis College AISES Conference, and the Teaching Outside the Box Environmental Education Conference. Shannon has six wonderful children and three amazing grandchildren that are her inspiration to make this a better world for all future generations to come.

3p-4p is the lecture with Shannon Francis 
4p-5p is a community discussion where food will be provided for students 
RSVP here