Pam Lawton
Champion of the Water
One of the amazing activists we learned about and wanted to connect with on our preliminary visit was Eliete Paraguassu. Eliete, a...
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Pamela Harris Lawton, EdDCTA, MFA is the Florence Gaskins Harper Endowed Chair in Art Education, and thought leader for MICA’s
Hurwitz Center. Lawton has led study away courses in Mexico and Nicaragua. In 2019 she was both a Tate Exchange Associate artist in
London and Distinguished Chair Fulbright in Edinburgh, Scotland where she facilitated artist’s book workshops with BIPOC immigrant youth.
A scholar, printmaker, book and mixed media artist, her research revolves around visual narrative and intergenerational arts learning in BIPOC
communities. She has published extensively and exhibited her artwork nationally and internationally.
Carissa Aoki, Phd, teaches in MICA’s Ecosystems, Sustainability & Justice BFA program and is an applied ecologist working at
the intersection of landscapes, disturbance and risk. She is particularly interested in bringing anti-racist principles to the teaching of science,
including the use of interdisciplinary stories to bring non-traditional content into the curriculum.
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