Jewell Arcoren (Sisseton Wahpeton Nation)// Jewell Arcoren is a community activist and enrolled member of the Sisseton Wahpeton Nation. She has recently served as Director of Wicoie Nandagikendan, a preschool program committed to Dakota and Ojibwe language revitalization and early childhood education. Jewell has a Master's Degree in Counseling Psychology and holds a strong interest in behavioral health as it relates to recovering our spirits and transcending intergenerational historical trauma in the American Indian community as well as in the non-Native communities; she is looking more closely at parallel trauma © and manifestations of shame, fear, and guilt.
Nicholas Bad Heart Bull// Nicholas Bad Heart Bull has been working with Two-Eyed Seeing his whole life though his Lakota and settler communities. His father lives on Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota and Nick’s Master of Landscape Architecture (UMN) Capstone Project re-imagined traditional ways of living at Pine Ridge through his contemporary eyes as civil engineer and landscape architect.
Rebecca Krinke// Rebecca Krinke is an artist and Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. She positions her hybrid practice, teaching, and research under the umbrella of “Earthling School” to synthesize her way of working and being in the world focused on deepening our relationships with the Earth, each other, and the non-human world. A key part of the Earthling School approach is “two-eyed seeing” which means to see from an Indigenous perspective and the lens of Western science at the same time. Current Earthling School initiatives include teaching University studio-based courses of the same name, and two funded interdisciplinary research projects at Biological Field Stations.
Caitlin Barale Potter// Dr. Barale Potter has been the Associate Director of Cedar Creek since 2022. Prior to that, she led the reserve’s education and community engagement arm. Her research interests are in animal behavior, social relationships, and conservation, but her focus at Cedar Creek is on keeping the whole ecosystem of researchers, staff and students functioning smoothly and efficiently.
Dan Shaw// Dan Shaw is the Senior Ecologist and Vegetation Specialist with the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil Resources (BWSR) and an adjunct Professor at the University of Minnesota. His work focuses on building conservation partnerships, stormwater management, plant community restoration, climate mitigation and adaptation, and pollinator protection. He has taught design and ecological restoration classes for the past 23 years and worked on several publications including “Plants for Stormwater Design,” The “Minnesota Wetland Restoration Guide, “Planting for Pollinators” and “The Blue Thumb Guide to Raingardens.”
Fawn YoungBear- Tibbetts// Fawn YoungBear-Tibbetts is the current Director of Wicoie Nandagikendan, a preschool program committed to Dakota and Ojibwe language revitalization and early childhood education, and a member of the White Earth Nation. Fawn has extensive experience in the environmental sciences and digital media. She has held positions at the University of Wisconsin, Whitewater as Arts and Sciences Coordinator with Bad River Reservation, and with the Earth Partnership, Arboretum of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and the College of the Menominee Nation.