The IAS seeks an imaginative collaborator with wide interests to join our team as Program Manager. The priority application review date is Monday, December 6, 2021.

Meet Alexandra Peck, the Visiting Scholar of Indigenous Studies for the Environmental Stewardship, Place, and Community Initiative. Learn more about her ongoing project nearly 400 Indigenous S’Klallam landmarks and sacred sites along western Washington’s Olympic Peninsula, “Mapping Multivocality: Documenting Changes in the S’Klallam World Through Ethnogeography.”

Meet the IAS Research and Creative Collaborative, Fostering Understanding and Promoting Inclusion for Individuals with Disabilities. Together with over 30 collaborators, they presented the event Light in the Well, a multi-sensory event that uses music as the storyteller to honor people with disabilities and their families, share their stories, and spread hope to others who are on the same journey.

Ricardo Velasco is a documentarian and cultural studies scholar. He earned his PhD in Latin American Studies with Portfolio Certificates in Cultural Studies and Museum Studies from the University of Texas at Austin in 2020. Ricardo joins the IAS community of scholars as the Minnesota Transform Postdoctoral Associate.