UWM at Waukesha’s 2022 Distinguished Lecture features Kyle Whyte, PhD, who will speak on “Indigenous Rights, Reconciliation, and Climate Change,” at 7 p.m. on April 26 at the UWM at Waukesha campus, Room N133. Admission is free.
Whyte is George Willis Pack Professor of Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. His research addresses moral and political issues surrounding climate policy and Indigenous peoples, the ethics of cooperative relationships between Indigenous peoples and science organizations, and problems of Indigenous justice in public and academic discussions of food sovereignty, environmental justice and the Anthropocene. He is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.
Whyte serves on the White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council, and has served as an author for the U.S. Global Change Research Program. He is a former member of the Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Science in the U.S. Department of Interior and of two environmental justice work groups convened by previous governors of Michigan.
He is involved with a number organizations that advance Indigenous research and education methodologies and environmental justice, including the Climate and Traditional Knowledges Workgroup, the Sustainable Development Institute of the College of Menominee Nation, the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition, Pesticide Action Network and Ngā Pae o te Māramatanga, New Zealand’s Māori Centre of Research Excellence.
Whyte’s work has received the Bunyan Bryant Award for Academic Excellence from Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice, Michigan State University’s Distinguished Partnership and Engaged Scholarship awards, and grants from the National Science Foundation.
