Cohort Members!

The following talk is part of our Cohort Meeting on Wednesday evening.

FROM WESHOYOT ALVITRE
”I will be discussing how in learning about Native plants and traditional Indigenous people of the land you occupy, it will help to build relationships with present and past Indigenous existence and support those systems. I will discuss ways to continue those relationships with plants, the land and the Original people in regards to the Fibershed methodologies.”

Weshoyot Alvitre is a female author and illustrator from the Tongva tribe of Southern California. She currently resides with her husband and two children on Ventureno Chumash Territory in Ventura, California. Her work focuses on an Indigenous lens and voice on projects from children’s books to adult market graphic novels. She has recently been published as artist in “GHOSTRIVER: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga” graphic novel from Red Planet Books, ABQ. in collaboration with the Library Company of Philadelphia; “At The Mountains Base” written by Traci Sorell, Kokila; and was Art Director on the video game “When Rivers Were Trails”. She enjoys spinning yarn and collecting antiques.