Soup and Bannock Lunch and Learn with Cynthia-Lou Coleman

What Can I Do and How Can I Make a Difference?

 Visiting researcher Cynthia-Lou Coleman will talk about how she answers questions raised by Jody Wilson-Raybould: What Can I Do and How Can I Make a Difference? Coleman shares how her work is mass communication led to a critical look at how Indigenous perspectives are disparaged when environmental and cultural issues emerge in public view. ###

Cynthia-Lou Coleman is a professor of communication at Portland State University in Oregon, USA, and is the current Fulbright-Canada Jarislowsky Visiting Research Chair in Aboriginal Studies at Vancouver Island University. Her work focusses on how environmental and cultural clashes are communicated that impact Native American communities, such as a Dakota Access Pipeline, and the unearthing of an ancient skeleton on Indigenous land in the Pacific Northwest. Palgrave-Macmillan will publish Coleman’s book on mass media and environmental communication in 2020.