Multicultural Women’s Voices on Ecological and Social Healing

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It is possible to heal ourselves and our planet if we are open to the power of integrating multiple and often conflicting views. In their lives and work, authors and CIIS faculty members Alka Arora, Jeanine M. Canty, and Sara H. Salazar demonstrate this power and possibility.

Join these three inspirational scholars for a conversation exploring their personal and professional experiences straddling social and ecological issues and how navigating these edges has surfaced new learning, models, and practices for collective healing.

Drawing from their contributions to the compendium Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices, Alka, Jeanine, and Sara explore several topics: the connection between compassion, social justice, and veganism; the power of Xicana mothering with Indigenous food systems as a form of activism; and how a broken worldview fosters greater resilience and clear seeing. Their dialogue engages intersectional, integral, and transdisciplinary scholarship surrounding ecological and social issues and explores what healing can look like.

Alka Arora, Ph.D., is a professor of Women, Gender, Spirituality, and Social Justice at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, CA. Her research and teaching are focused on liberatory pedagogy, feminist spiritual activism, socially conscious leadership, and critical animal studies. She has a background in intergroup dialogue facilitation and is a certified Gender Equity and Reconciliation International facilitator. She is also a workshop leader, personal development and leadership coach, and educational consultant. She lives in Chicago, IL and works remotely. Learn more at www.alkaarora.com.

Jeanine M. Canty, Ph.D., is a professor of transformative studies at CIIS in San Francisco, telecommuting from Boulder, CO. A lover of nature, justice, and contemplative practice, her teaching intersects issues of social and ecological justice, ecopsychology, and the process of worldview expansion and change. She is both editor and a contributor to the book Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices and Globalism and Localization: Emergent Approaches to Ecological and Social Crises, as well as author of the book Returning the Self to Nature: Undoing Our Collective Narcissism and Healing Our Planet.

Sara H. Salazar, Ph.D., is a Xicana scholar, educator, and mother. Her work is transdisciplinary and centered on decolonial theory and praxis, feminist philosophy, and critical pedagogies. Research interests include Chicana spirituality, art, and activism, radical mothering practices, indigenous food systems, and restorative justice. She is an Associate Professor at California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

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