Register below for this webinar, held on October 28, 2026 at 2pm PST.
Due to team time limitations, any registrations received after OCTOBER 27th @2PM (PST) will not be reviewed.
This webinar will not be recorded.
About this Webinar:
Current threats to biodiversity are tracked by billions of data points worldwide. Technology today prioritizes global aggregation, severing ties between data and the communities who have been stewarding and caring for these biodiverse lands and waters. The pace of technology change is only accelerating this extractive norm. Learn how a Wabanaki-led biodiversity data infrastructure is being put into practice to connect and empower rather than extract and disconnect.
Featured Speakers:
Dr. Jane Anderson is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies and a Global Fellow in the Engelberg Center for Innovation Law and Policy in the Law School at New York University. Jane has a Ph.D. in Law from the Law School at University of New South Wales in Australia. Their work is focused on the philosophical and practical problems for intellectual property law and the protection of Indigenous/traditional knowledge resources and cultural heritage in support of Indigenous knowledge and data sovereignty. See more…
Dr. Suzanne Greenlaw is a citizen of the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, an ecologist, writer, and a traditional harvester. Her work focuses on supporting Wabanaki land access, maintaining and re-energizing cultural practices throughout Waponahkik, and advocating for the importance of Wabanaki practices and knowledge in scientific research and restoration. She works as an ecologist at Schoodic Institute at Acadia National Park and serves on the planning committee for the Wabanaki Lands Commission that oversees 20 projects focused on restoring Wabanaki access to, management of, and ownership over ancestral lands in Maine.
Ella McDonald is a co-creator of the Ash Protection Collaboration Across Waponahkik (APCAW) program and a PHD Student in the School of Forest Resources at the University of Maine, Orono. Ella engages in participatory research with Wabanaki communities to develop frameworks of care for brown ash ecosystems and data collected in these spaces.
This webinar is a collaborative effort involving the Indigenous Data Alliance (IDA), the Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance, the Indigenous Data Exchange (IDX), the IndigeLab Network, the Indigenous Data Law Lab at NYU, and the Sovereign Soils Research Collaborative.