organize
learn first to listen_
for what passion
for making kin
and care-taking࿓good
relations࿓justice is
part of skillful love
in action࿓defend
the sacred
i. advocacy ࿓ land protection ࿓ decolonization
I acknowledge the Peoples & Lands in which much of this work has been happening: Throughout the unceded territories of the Indigenous Peoples of Alaska, particularly, the traditional territories of the lower Tanana Dene Peoples and the Dena’ina Peoples. I acknowledge and honor the ancestral & present land stewardship and place-based knowledge of the peoples of these territories.
At the First Arctic Indigenous Climate Summit, 10-13 June 2019 in Gwichyaa Zhee Fort Yukon, Alaska.

ii. arctic climate coalition ࿓
keep it in the ground
As Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition council member and Keep It In the Ground co-facilitator (2017-2019), collaborations in peaceful, non-violent actions, especially as invited ally with Gwich’in Steering Committee in defense of Iizhik Gwats’an Gwandaii Goodlit Sacred Place Where Life Begins. (In U.S. federal terms, the 10-02 area of the Arctic Refuge).


The Northern Alaska Environmental Center, in 2018, honored me with an “Activist of the Year Award”
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iii. intergenerational respect ࿓
fossil fuel divestment
NYU Divest Calls On President Sexton To End Fossil Fuel Investments
by Melissa Cronin, The Nation, 12 December 2012
NYU Divest Hosts Eco-Celebrity Bill McKibben, Faces Rebuff From Administration
by Melissa Cronin, NYU Local 6 February 2013
NYU Divest Meets With Senior Administrators, Calls For Climate Justice
by Melissa Cronin, The Nation, 18 April 2013
Here is our detailed faculty letter to NYU presidents signed by 200+ faculty

As inspired by 350.org from its origins in “Step it Up” : Here is one story about how I first experienced the movement
As NYU Faculty in Liberal Studies 2009-2014–in 2013, student nominations honored me with an NYU Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Research Award
