Panel Title
Sacred Sites and Traditional Ecological Knowledge Around the World
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Presenter Bio
Doctoral Candidate in Ecology, Spirituality and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies
I am a doctoral candidate in the Department of Ecology, Spirituality and Religion at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) and the co-founder of the non-profit, the Deep Water Initiative. My research looks at Indigenous approaches to environmental engagement with a focus on human-animal relationships in hunter-gatherer cosmology. South African born and raised, my professional background spans 15 years of experience in media, corporate communications, and the agricultural development sector. I received a B.A. in film production from the internationally award-winning film school AFDA, in South Africa, and an M.A. in Middle Eastern History from Tel-Aviv University. In the past decade, I have worked extensively throughout Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and the U.S. In 2017 I relocated to the U.S. to pursue a Ph.D. I am passionate about effecting social change through artistic mediums of cultural expression and storytelling. My broad fields of interest include human-animal relations, religion and ecology, and the Primal and Indigenous origins of religious rites and practices.
Presenter Photo
The Primal Metaphysics of Becoming-Animal during the Hunt in the Kalahari Desert
https://digitalcommons.ciis.edu/religionecologysummit/2021/Thursday/2
