Land Back and Ethics in Place: A Conversation with Nick Tilsen

Event Date: 

Tuesday, April 27, 2021 - 4:00pm to 5:30pm

Event Date Details: 

  • Ethics in Place Symposium Series

Join us for the eighth and culminating event of Ethics in Place: A Symposium on Indigenous Peoples and the Future of Principled Democracy, our annual symposium series for 2020-2021.

Greg Johnson (Director of the Capps Center) will engage Nick Tilsen in a discussion about ongoing initiatives of the NDN Collective, including its Land Back campaign, and themes from the Capps Center’s year-long exploration of critical issues for recentering Indigenous peoples in our democracy.

Nick Tilsen is President & CEO of NDN Collective. He is a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. Nick has over 20 years of experience building place-based innovations that have the ability to inform systems change solutions around climate resiliency, sustainable housing and equitable community development. He founded NDN Collective to scale these place-based solutions while building needed philanthropic, social impact investment, capacity and advocacy infrastructure geared towards building the collective power of Indigenous Peoples.

Zoom registration link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_i0yy1quGT_ayY9emx35xKw