Youth Leadership Program – Community of Mentors with Marlowe Sam
Bioneers is inherently a community of mentors—people eager to learn, share, explore and create together. The “Community of Mentors” space at Bioneers is an intergenerational container that offers youth the opportunity to be in small group mentoring sessions with Bioneers presenters. The presenters will share their life experience in an interactive dialogue with youth who are seeking guidance on their path to activism.
In this session, Bioneers youth will have the unique opportunity to sit with Marlowe Sam, Wenatchi/Lakes descendant from the Colville Confederated Tribes of Washington State (CCT). Marlowe carries a lifetime of knowledge and experience as a professor and expert on indigenous water rights in Canada. Co-hosted by David Hage of Weaving Earth.
Upstairs in The Marsh
March 30th | 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Panelists
Marlowe Sam
Adjunct Professor in Indigenous Studies
UBC Okanagan
Marlowe Sam (sc̓waʔnytəm), Ph.D., a Wenatchi/Lakes descendant from the Colville Confederated Tribes of Washington State (CCT), is an adjunct professor in Indigenous Studies at UBC Okanagan, a lecturer in the En’owkin Center/Selkirk College Syilx Studies Program, and an expert on Indigenous water rights in Canada as well as in traditional Syilx governance. He is also a traditional harvester and hunter who mentors his grandchildren, seeking to pass on Syilx ways on the land.
David Hage
