PORT ANGELES — A native nutrition educator who specializes in local and traditional foods will speak at Peninsula College on Tuesday.
Valerie Segrest’s free lecture will be from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the J47 conference room at the Pirate Union Building (PUB) on the Port Angeles campus at 1502 E. Lauridsen Blvd.
Segrest will speak on “Continuing Traditions: How Legal Precedents Such as the Boldt Decision, Policies to Protect Foods, and a Revitalized Food Culture are Affecting Native Populations.”
As an enrolled member of the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, Segrest serves as the coordinator of the Muckleshoot Food Sovereignty Project and also works as the Traditional Foods and Medicines Program Manager.
In 2010, she co-authored the book, Feeding the People, Feeding the Spirit: Revitalizing Northwest Coastal Indian Food Culture.
Segrest received a bachelor’s degree in nutrition from Bastyr University in 2009 and a master’s in environment and community from Antioch University.
She is a fellow for the Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy and a doctoral student at the University of Washington’s College of Built Environment.
She is a Kellogg Fellow at the Institute of Agriculture and Trade Policy.
Her lecture is one in a series of free events sponsored by Peninsula College Instruction and the House of Learning Longhouse to “explore the connections between health and the environment through tribal perspectives.”
The last in the series will be Tuesday, May 31, when Robert Elofson, the Elwha River restoration director for the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe, will lead a tour and share tribal perspectives on the restoration at a site on the river from 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Transportation will be available from Peninsula College to the site on the river.
To reserve a spot on the May 31 field trip, or for more information, contact Sadie Crowe at 360-417-7992 or longhouse@pencol.edu.
