Rising Voices 13 (2025)

The application for the workshop is now open. If you are interested in participating in the 13th Annual Rising Voices Workshop, please apply by Friday, January 31st at 5 pm MST

Louisiana’s coastal landscape and waterscape have been drastically transformed by hydrological, meteorological, and environmental disasters, extractive industries, river management, and climate change, resulting in Louisiana having among the highest land loss rates in the world. Within this context and in response to the rapidly increasing climate crisis, the First Peoples’ Conservation Council of Louisiana (FPCC) and member tribes are leading coastal restoration and climate adaptation actions focused on restoring marshland, protecting sacred sites, reducing land loss and flood risk, increasing tribal resilience and a regenerative future, and land rematriation, for all living relatives.

The Rising Voices Center for Indigenous and Earth Sciences, in partnership with The Lowlander Center, FPCC, and Nicholls State University, is hosting an in-person workshop to focus on navigating place-based climate actions. The workshop will include site visits to learn from the people and place and full group discussions in a participatory process to co-learn, share knowledge, and facilitate intercultural collaborations that support climate actions.

This new workshop structure is focused on a more place-based, seasons-round actionable science initiative for intercultural climate collaborations, actions, and commitments. Because of this focus, and out of respect for our host communities, the in person meeting will be limited in size and will be focused toward Indigenous communities and scientists, including students, addressing disruption to local water cycles.