Hannah Jo King (they/she) is a Ph.D. candidate in the Natural Resources Science and Management program at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities. As an environmental justice teacher, activist, and scholar, they are committed to Black and BIPOC liberation and believe that healing our relations to both human and non-human relatives is essential to that liberation. Hannah Jo conducts social science research with Kawe Gidaa-naanaagadawendaamin Manoomin, a tribal-university collaborative to protect Manoomin/Psiŋ (Wild Rice) in the Great Lakes. They also practice and theorize in the space of Black-Native land solidarities with dissertation research on the history of all-Black townships in Oklahoma and their interwoven connections to emancipation, Native allotments, and Black homesteading. Hannah Jo is a plant medicine nerd and farmer in training. She is a recipient of the UMN Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship (2024-2025) and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program (2021-2024).
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