Conversation recorded live on March 21, 2021 -- offered in collaboration with the National Museum of Natural History. Featuring:

Costa Boutsikaris grew up in the Hudson Valley of New York and began working on documentaries as a teenager when he got an opportunity to intern with Jonathan Demme. After receiving his BA in Film at The Mason Gross School Of the Arts he began work as a cinematographer shooting for PBS. In 2015 Costa shot, directed, and edited his first feature documentary entitled "Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective" which took home the Audience Choice Award at The Environmental Film Festival At Yale and won Best In Theme at the Wild & Scenic Film Festival. 

Anna Palmer was born in Stockholm, Sweden and grew up in the Hudson Valley of New York. She received her Masters Of Science in Environmental Studies in 2017 and began working for the USDA helping Tribes in the Southwest on climate change adaptation planning. Since then she has continued her work with Tribes creating educational resources and media. 

Dr. Michael Kotutwa Johnson, is a member of the Hopi Tribe in Northern Arizona. Dr. Johnson is a traditional Hopi farmer and has given extensive lectures on the topic of Hopi dryland farming. Dr. Johnson received his Bachelor of Science degree in agriculture from Cornell University, a Master’s in Public Policy from Pepperdine University, and his PhD in Natural Resource Management at the University of Arizona. Prior to his PhD work he served as a United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) District Conservationist on the Hopi Reservation. Dr. Johnson’s latest publication is called “Barriers to PES programs in Indigenous communities: A lesson in land tenure insecurity from the Hopi Indian reservation” published in Ecosystem Services.

Dorothy Lippert is the Tribal Liaison in the Repatriation Office at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History).