Water, Spirit, Power
Hosted by Taproot Earth
In this session Bioneers ally Taproot Earth, a climate justice organization with roots in Louisiana, will bring together Indigenous women leaders from around the world to share their Earth-honoring perspectives and describe the extraordinary pilgrimage they undertook to gather waters from the Nile, Mississippi and Amazon rivers and return them to East Africa where the oldest human bones are found as a necessary spiritual component of their climate justice, Indigenous sovereignty and Black liberation struggles. Hosted by Colette Pichon Battle, Esq., Taproot Earth. With: Phoenix Rose, Ifa spiritual leader from Louisiana; others TBA
March 28th | 3:00 pm to 4:15 pm
Panelists
Colette Pichon Battle
Co-Founder
Taproot Earth
Colette Pichon Battle, a generational native of Bayou Liberty, Louisiana, is an award-winning lawyer and prominent climate justice organizer. In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, when Black and Indigenous communities were largely left out of federal recovery systems, Colette led the Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy (GCCLP) to provide relief and legal assistance to Gulf South communities of color. After 17 years at GCCLP’s helm, as frontline communities from the Gulf South to the Global South face ever more devastating storms, droughts, wildfires, heat, and land loss, she co-founded Taproot Earth to create connections and power across issues, movements, and geographies.
Phoenix Rose
