MICRO-DOCUMENTARIES
Who Speaks Wukchumni? An eight-minute NY Times Op-Ed video by Emmanuel Vaughn-Lee profiling Marie Wilcox, grandmother and last native speaker of Wukchumni, devoting her life to developing a dictionary.
In December 2014, together with a student from my SJSU class, I visited Marie and her family to record a Wukchumni story.
GLOBAL ORGANIZATIONS
Terralingua, the world’s premier organization devoted to conserving endangered languages, covers our collaborative work: http://www.terralingua.org/
The Global Diversity Foundation, a research, training and education organization working in Africa, the Americas and Asia: http://www.global-diversity.org/
The Christensen Fund, a private organization that crafts its grant making and other activities on the conviction that worldwide diversity – both cultural and biological – is hugely valuable and should be cared for: http://www.christensenfund.org
MY WORK with Northern California coastal communities:
On April 6th, 2011 I was invited by the California State Fish and Game Commission to provide expert testimony on the role of indigenous (Native) science in setting marine policy. A video of that session, which includes tribal testimony, is archived here: http://www.cal-span.org/cgi-bin/archive.php?owner=CFG&date=2011-04-06
In 2009-10, I moderated a controversial process that involved Mendocino community constituents in coastal marine resource policy planning: http://theava.com/archives/3629
MY WORK with the Tado Community of East Indonesia:
The Tado Community is featured on the West Flores Tourism website: http://www.floreskomodo.com/
In 2010, a Dartmouth College student, Charles Grant, spent his mid-semester internship with the Tado Community. Read about his experience: http://tadoblog.wordpress.com/
Tado handicrafts featured in an exhibit at the National Museum of Ethnology in Japan: http://www.minpaku.ac.jp/english/
Tado Cultural Ecology Conservation Project: http://www.ecosea.org/culturalecology/tcecp.html
Tado cultural [eco]tourism: http://tadoecotourism.wordpress.com/about/
Press coverage for the Pfeiffer & Voeks 2008 review article:
In May 2011, Secret Gardening website cited me in an article about native landscaping: http://secretgardening.net/landscaping-with-native-flowers/
Prior to publishing the review, my work was described by a journalist reporting for the American Institute of Biological Sciences: http://www.aibs.org/
After Pfeiffer & Voeks 2008 was released, international websites picked up the story: http://www.digitaljournal.com/ and http://www.labspaces.net/
Academic Links to My Teaching and Research:
UC Davis Faculty Mentoring Faculty lecture: http://fmfp.ucdavis.edu/spring_07_speakers.php
UC Davis Press release for National Institutes of Health International Collaborative Biodiversity Group grant: http://news.ucanr.org/storyshow.cfm?story=1158&printver=yes
