Activist, filmmaker and educator Miho Aida will screen her award-winning film “Gwich’in Women Speak” and sign copies of the book, “We Are the Arctic” Monday at Volcano Art Center.
Activist, filmmaker and educator Miho Aida will screen her award-winning film “Gwich’in Women Speak” and sign copies of the book, “We Are the Arctic” Monday at Volcano Art Center.
Aida, an outdoor adventurer committed to broadening access to nature and the ecological world as a woman of color, is originally from Tokyo. She entered academia with a lifelong fascination with nature. After earning a Master’s degree studying the effect of climate change on alpine plants at Hokkaido University, she attended the graduate program at Teton Science School to become an environmental educator. Since, she has dedicated herself to educating young people at the NatureBridge, a nonprofit environmental education partner of the National Park Service and creating a more environmentally just society.
Aida will offer the screening and book signing at 7 p.m. at the center’s Niaulani Campus.
”Gwich’in Women Speak” is a short, 20-minute film that explores the relationship between Gwich’in women, an Alaska native people living in what is now known as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and the porcupine caribou herd that is the basis for their subsistence lifestyle and culture.
”We Are the Arctic” showcases the vast beauty of this remarkable untouched wilderness through beautiful images from 10 of the world’s best conservation photographers and a fascinating array of diverse voices. Aida is one of the 25 contributors of an essay in the book.
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