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Creative Inquiry 3: Sam Grant - Dreaming, Intuition, & Environmental, Ecological, & Cultural Justice
Sam Grant is a transformative organizer, educator and facilitator working through multiple formations to advance the convivial dreaming process of individuals and networks actively manifesting health in self, relationships and local to planetary socio-ecologies.
Dan and Sam discuss creativity in activism, transdisciplinarity and the fallacies of academic disciplines, the problem with "expertise," heeding the call of intuition and the "dreaming" process, and the messiness, joy, and agony of creative inquiry.
Sam’s PhD work at the California Institute for Integral Studies focuses on integrating his life-long passions in environmental, economic and cultural justice through the lens of Africana Critical Theory to theoretically imagine how we co-transform the domination –control paradigm toward an intercultural ecological democracy. Sam is doing grassroots prototypes of what this could look like in the United States and Sierra Leone.
Sam has been on community faculty at Metropolitan State University since 1990, where he created and leads their Minor in Community Organizing and Development. He is the Faculty Director of the Environmental Sustainability program at the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs, working with students from 26 colleges and universities to engage in climate justice through local to global socio-ecological systems.
He is a lead consultant with three firms: a) a firm assemblage he founded with his wife – the Movement Center for Deep Democracy and Embody Deep Democracy – through which he is currently a capacity building consultant on a local food systems initiative funded by the Greater Twin Cities United Way; b) he has a long-standing consulting partnership with The Public Policy Project, which is now working on a major environmental justice initiative; and c) he is a consultant with Creative Catalysts, working on the African American Futures Initiative with the Saint Paul Foundation. In addition, Sam is on the participatory design team for the revamp of a long-standing arts-based community development initiative – the Creative Community Leadership Institute.
He current lives in the Twin Cities metro area of Minnesota with his wife Zea and their daughter Sol – two of the most amazing creative catalysts in his own life.
You can llearn a little more about his work at – www.slfnd.org, www.hecua.org, and www.susted.com/wordpress/content/2017/05/
The article Sam wrote, "Organizing Alternative Food Futures in the Peripheries of the Industrial Food System," referenced in the interview can be found here: http://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-06-12/organizing-alternative-food-futures-peripheries-industrial-food-system/
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Sam Grant is a transformative organizer, educator and facilitator working through multiple formations to advance the convivial dreaming process of individuals and networks actively manifesting health in self, relationships and local to planetary socio-ecologies.
Dan and Sam discuss creativity in activism, transdisciplinarity and the fallacies of academic disciplines, the problem with "expertise," heeding the call of intuition and the "dreaming" process, and the messiness, joy, and agony of creative inquiry.
Sam’s PhD work at the California Institute for Integral Studies focuses on integrating his life-long passions in environmental, economic and cultural justice through the lens of Africana Critical Theory to theoretically imagine how we co-transform the domination –control paradigm toward an intercultural ecological democracy. Sam is doing grassroots prototypes of what this could look like in the United States and Sierra Leone.
Sam has been on community faculty at Metropolitan State University since 1990, where he created and leads their Minor in Community Organizing and Development. He is the Faculty Director of the Environmental Sustainability program at the Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs, working with students from 26 colleges and universities to engage in climate justice through local to global socio-ecological systems.
He is a lead consultant with three firms: a) a firm assemblage he founded with his wife – the Movement Center for Deep Democracy and Embody Deep Democracy – through which he is currently a capacity building consultant on a local food systems initiative funded by the Greater Twin Cities United Way; b) he has a long-standing consulting partnership with The Public Policy Project, which is now working on a major environmental justice initiative; and c) he is a consultant with Creative Catalysts, working on the African American Futures Initiative with the Saint Paul Foundation. In addition, Sam is on the participatory design team for the revamp of a long-standing arts-based community development initiative – the Creative Community Leadership Institute.
He current lives in the Twin Cities metro area of Minnesota with his wife Zea and their daughter Sol – two of the most amazing creative catalysts in his own life.
You can llearn a little more about his work at – www.slfnd.org, www.hecua.org, and www.susted.com/wordpress/content/2017/05/
The article Sam wrote, "Organizing Alternative Food Futures in the Peripheries of the Industrial Food System," referenced in the interview can be found here: http://www.resilience.org/stories/2017-06-12/organizing-alternative-food-futures-peripheries-industrial-food-system/