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Food Security and Environmental Justice - Winona LaDuke
7:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe) is founder and codirector of Honor the Earth, a national advocacy group encouraging public support and funding for Native environmental groups, working nationally and internationally on climate change, renewable energy, sustainable food systems and environmental justice. A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities with advanced degrees in rural economic development, LaDuke has devoted her life to protecting the lands and life ways of Native communities. In her own community in northern Minnesota, she is the founder of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, one of the largest reservation based non-profit organizations in the country, and a leader on culturally-based sustainable development strategies. The 2018 Richard Thompson Memorial Lecture

Food Waste - Christine Moseley
4:00 PM – 2432 Food Sciences Building - Christine Moseley is the founder of Full Harvest, the first business-to-business marketplace for ugly and surplus produce. Moseley will discuss the online marketplace connecting farms with food and beverage companies to buy and sell surplus and imperfect produce. 2017-18 Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair Lecture Series

#MeToo - Tarana Burke
8:00 PM – Stephens Auditorium, Iowa State Center - No tickets | General admission seating Tarana Burke shares her personal story behind the "Me Too" movement and the viral #MeToo campaign that has emerged as a rallying cry for people who have experienced sexual assault or harassment. TIME Magazine collectively named Burke and the many other female activists who broke the silence on sexual assault as their 2017 Person of the Year. Although the #MeToo hashtag became a sensation overnight, Burke has dedicated more than 25 years of her life to social justice and to laying the groundwork for a movement. In 2006 she founded the organization Just Be Inc. to help young women of color who had survived sexual trauma, and she is currently senior director of programs at the Brooklyn-based Girls for Gender Equity.

White Bread, Wheat Breeding and the Beauty of Place - Steve Jones
7:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Steve Jones is in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences and Director of the Bread Lab at Washington State University. His research is directed towards improving wheat varieties (and other crops) for traditional and organic systems that incorporate diverse rotations and systems for small and midsized farms. Farmer participation and expertise is utilized and encouraged in research planning and decision making. The goal of this western Washington breeding program is to ensure the long-term environmental and economic health of farming while producing a food crop that is safe and high in nutritional value. Shivvers Memorial Lecture.

Including Our Neighbors in the Land Grant Mission: Collaboration in and with Native Communities from STEM to Ag - Panel Discussion
4:00 PM – Cardinal Room, Memorial Union - Join a discussion exploring the benefits, possibilities, and potential for Iowa State to engage strategically with its Native neighbors in research and collaboration. Participants: Jason Younker is assistant vice president and advisor to the president on sovereignty and government-to-government relations at the University of Oregon and a member of the Coquille Nation. He is the University of Oregon’s first formal governmental liaison to the nine federally recognized tribes of Oregon and dedicated to building academic, economic, social, and cultural collaborations. Jeffrey Burnette is assistant professor of economics and director of the Native American Future Stewards Program at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where he works to maintain and build the relationship between RIT and the American Indian community. Richard Meyers is president of the Association of Indigenous Anthropologists and a faculty member at Oglala Lakota College in South Dakota. He earned his PhD in Cultural Anthropology from Arizona State University. Part of the American Indian Symposium

Science and Environmental Decision-making: From the Lab to the White House and Beyond - Rosina Bierbaum
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Rosina Bierbaum, a professor and former dean at the University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment who also holds the Roy F. Westin Chair in Natural Economics at the University of Maryland, will discuss her research and career working at the interface of environmental science and policy. Her work in both academia and the public sector has focused on climate change adaptation and mitigation. She served on President Obama's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology, has been an Adaptation Fellow at the World Bank, ran the first Environment Division in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, has served in multiple capacities at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and was a review editor for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. She currently chairs the Science and Technical Advisory Panel of the Global Environment Facility.Part of the National Affairs Series: When American Values Are in Conflict

The Dead Zone: Will Shrimp and Corn Chowder Survive? - Nancy N. Rabalais
8:00 PM – Great Hall, Memorial Union - Nancy Rabalais has worked for more than 30 years to bring national attention to water quality and ecosystem concerns in the Gulf of Mexico. She leads Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium/Louisiana State University's annual survey of the Gulf hypoxic zone, tracking the impact that nutrient runoff from agriculture and developed lands in the Mississippi River watershed has had on coastal habitats. Also referred to as the “dead zone,” the hypoxic zone is a largely human-caused phenomenon where there's too little oxygen to support marine life. Rabalais’s work on coastal water quality has extended to recovery efforts following the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill and restoration of coastal habitats following natural disasters, including hurricanes Katrina and Harvey. The Ronald Lecture in Environmental Conservation

Wasted: A Story of Food Waste - Documentary & Discussion
6:45 PM – 1148 Gerdin Business Building - Grab some appetizers beginning at 6 p.m. before watching the movie Wasted: A Story of Food Waste at 6:45pm. The movie shows how influential chefs from around the world transform scraps of food into savory dishes. Following the movie, Lynn Pritchard, co-owner of Table 128 Bistro & Bar, will give a brief talk about how his restaurant handles food waste. 2017-18 Helen LeBaron Hilton Endowed Chair Lecture Series

What's So Bad about Jesus? - Hector Avalos
6:00 PM – 0305 Carver - Hector Avalos, a professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Iowa State, will speak on the topic of his book The Bad Jesus: The Ethics of New Testament Ethics. Even some atheists who do not believe in Jesus's divine nature agree his teachings emphasize love, nonviolence, and inclusion. Avalos will discuss how the teachings and actions of Jesus, as portrayed in the New Testament, would be antithetical to those enshrined in some of the most widely accepted codes of modern ethics. Such teachings involve family values, violence, and the treatment of animals. Atheist and Agnostic Society Spring Lecture

Why Leadership Equity and Diversity Matters - Iyabo Onipede
7:00 PM – Alliant-Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall - Iyabo Onipede is a leadership development coach who works with corporate executives, academic professionals and social justice leaders to identify and develop leadership skills and reconnect with their core sense of values. She has worked across cultures, generations and socio-economic groups and draws on her personal experience as the daughter of a Yoruba father and an Irish-American mother. Onipede moved from Nigeria to New York at age 16. She is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law School and had a successful law practice for 20 years before becoming a life coach. She subsequently completed a graduate degree at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology.