Professor Harjo will discuss the rich history of sustainable community-building and place-making among Native American communities in North American highlighting what planners can learn from these experiences.

Professor Harjo earned her PhD in Geography at the University of Southern California. She previously served on the faculty at the University of New Mexico before join­ing the University of Oklahoma. Her most recent book, Spiral to the Stars, published by the University of Arizona employs Myskoke epistemologies and indigenous feminist ideas to enhance urban planning practice and pedagogy.

This event is co-hosted with the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program at MIT, Boston University lnitiative on Cities, Historic New England, Mel King lnstitute of the Massachusetts Association of the Community Development Corporations, the APA Massachusetts Chapter, and the BPDA Diversity, lnclusion and Equity Office.