IAS Panel: WEBE Gullah/Geechee: Collaborating for Social & Environmental Justice

I was recently invited to participate in a panel with the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) at University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. I loved discussing community-engaged scholarship at the Gullah/Geechee Nation with my brilliant colleagues, and even took some notes myself! Here are some of the great quotes you can look forward to:

"If you don't have a seat at the table, you will be on the menu!" - Queen Quet, herself quoting another national Representative

"Are you contributing anything for our continuation or are you here to record our devastation?" - Queen Quet

"Not everything is a knowledge problem!” - Kate Derickson

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Panel description from IAS’s website is below:

IAS Thursdays | WEBE Gullah/Geechee: Collaborating for Social and Environmental Justice

Thursday, October 07, 2021 | 3:30 pm CDT

An Online Event

Free and Open to the Public (Registration Requested)

Queen Quet Marquetta L. Goodwine, Chieftess and Head of State of the Gullah/Geechee Nation
Kate Derickson, Geography, Environment and Society, University of Minnesota
Hannah Jo King, Natural Resources Science & Management, University of Minnesota
Moriah Shumpert, Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies, University of Minnesota

This panel discussion explores tensions and opportunities when communities and university-based researchers collaborate. Based on a decade-long collaboration between Queen Quet, the Chieftess and Head of State of the Gullah/Geechee Nation and Kate Derickson, faculty member in Geography, Environment and Society, the panel will include a discussion of the model for effective collaboration and communication, strategies for including students in engaged research, and tools and techniques that have been useful throughout. We will also explore the complex historic relationship between Gullah/Geechee Nation and the University of Minnesota and how that conditions the ethical terrain of collaboration.