Former Green Party vice presidential candidate Winona LaDuke will speak Thursday, Oct. 24, as part of the Lecture~Concert Series at the Arkansas State University.

Her presentation will begin at 7:30 p.m. in Riceland Hall, Fowler Center, located at 201 Olympic Drive. Admission is free and the public is welcome, according to the Lecture~Concert Committee.

LaDuke's presentation is also supported by the College of Communications, the Department of Sociology, Social Work and Geography and the Department of English and Philosophy.

An activist in Native American, environmental and women’s issues, LaDuke brought an impressive record of accomplishment to the Green Party ticket when she ran for vice president in 2000. She serves as program director of Honor the Earth Fund, working on a national level to advocate, raise public support, and create funding for front line native environmental groups.

LaDuke is an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishaabeg who lives and works on the White Earth Reservation. She also is the founding director of White Earth Land Recovery Project, a reservation-based non-profit organization focused on land, cultural and environmental issues.

She has published two books, "Last Standing Woman," a novel, and "All Our Relations, a non-fiction book on Native environmental issues.

In 1994, Time magazine named LaDuke one of the nation’s 50 most promising leaders under the age of 40. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the Thomas Merton Award in 1996, the BIHA Community Service Award in 1997, and the Ann Bancroft Award for Women’s Leadership Fellowship.

A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities, she has written extensively on Native American and environmental issues. A former board member of Greenpeace USA, she serves as co-chair of the Indigenous Women’s Network, a North American and Pacific indigenous women’s organization.

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