Senior Global Futures Scientist
Arizona State University, Arizona, United States
Joseph Gazing Wolf has dedicated his life’s work to serving oppressed communities globally, with a particular focus on the economically and socially marginalized.
As a land steward, he works to increase Indigenous, Black, and Latinx representation and to provide field training and hands-on skill development for future land stewards. He also focuses on the restoration of native plant and animal species as well as the revitalization of Indigenous methodologies such as traditional fire in prairie ecosystems.
As a scholar, he works with Indigenous communities locally and globally to support the preservation of their traditional lifeways and document their efforts at protecting ancestral ecologies and lands. He also explores the impacts of large herbivores on prairie ecosystems. He also examines the experiences of Indigenous scholars in settler-colonial institutions of learning and research.
As an advocate, his work centers community well-being, food security, environmental justice, homelessness, animal rehabilitation, and the health and safety of elders, women, and children. He has also been involved in movements to resist authoritarian governments, land theft, and environmental destruction in communities across the globe.
Joseph is currently a doctoral student in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. He is also a Senior Global Futures Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Future Laboratory, a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Global Institute of Sustainability and Innovation, and a Graduate Research Fellow with the National Science Foundation. His work continues to be framed by a vision of universal existential dignity, for human and more-than-human alike.
COS 17-1 - Elevating Indigenous Knowledges in Ecology and Beyond
Monday, August 7, 2023
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM PDT