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Where I'll Be in 2023
In 2023, I will be resting more than normal as my body heals from the impacts of overwork, stress, and chronic and acute illness. I appreciate your interest in working with me and look forward to re-emerging renewed and healthy as I continue to re-story my mind, body, and spirit.
If you’re interested in how my work intersects with my role at the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust, I am currently on a year-long sabbatical from June 2023-June 2024. Please email them directly for information on how to support our land justice work at connect@nefoclandtrust.org.
If you’re interested in immersing yourself in learning about plant medicine, please check out Seed, Soil, + Spirit School. I am currently not teaching students in person and cannot answer questions directly.
If you’re interested in learning more about my work in Biocultural Re-storyation with the SUNY ESF Center for Native Peoples and the Environment, stay tuned.
If you’d like to hire me as a consultant to analyze policy, programming, or governance for environmental or land-based programs please click here to complete a Consultation Request.
To book me as a speaker or presenter after January 2024, please reach out to my booking agent Christie Hinrichs at Authors Unbound.
2022 Workshops, Keynotes, and Presentations
March 3: Advancing Land Access in Right Relationship-NEFOC Land Trust’s Relationships and Reciprocity Model (Great Lakes Indigenous Farming Conference)
March 5: Closing Keynote: Collective Dreams of Regenerative Resilience (NOFA VT 40th Annual Winter Conference)
March 29: Yale New Horizons in Conservation Conference, Plenary 2: The Land - Sovereignty, Ownership, Reparations, and Conservation
April 6: “Decolonization, Indigeneity, Appropriation, and Race Shifting: A primer on how to be an ally, not an a%$hole” Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism Family (Intermediate) Program
June 22: Panel: “Re-imagining Land Access Policy and Advancing a Transformative Agenda in the 2023 Farm Bill” Sustainable Agriculture Food Systems Funders (invitation only), St. Louis, MO
July 20: “Ancestral Re-storyation: Working with our Ancestors to Heal Forward on Stolen Land” Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism Family (Intermediate) Program
October 13, 2022: “Grasping at the Roots of Ecofacsim: A Conversation on Climate Change, White Supremacy, and the Need for Radical Educational Projects” Syracuse University Gander Lecture Series
November 2, 2022: Panel participant, “Wilderness for All” The Adirondack Experience
November 15, 2022: “Onen’takwenhténhtshera: The Gifts of Cedar” People’s Medicine School, Rootwork Herbals (for regsitered sudents only)
2021 Workshops and Presentations
January 22, 2021: Braided Legacies, Sovereign Futures: Black-Indigenous Solidarity Through Healing and Ceremony with Leah Penniman. Center for Whole Communities Community Zoom
February 18, 2021: Advancing BIPOC Land Access in N’Dakinna. Northeast Organic Farmers Association (Vermont)
May 6, 2021: Sustainable Agriculture Food Systems Funders Equitable Philanthropy Panel (Invite only)
June 24, 2021: Indigenous Seed Sovereignty (Ontario Biodiversity Council Seed Summit)
July 24, 2021: Keynote: First Light Benefit Concert for Indigenous-led land return (Knoll Farm, Waitsfield, VT)
September 14, 2021: Indigenous Plant Knowledge, Justice, and Sustainability (Tomaquag Museum, Providence, RI)
September 15, 2021: The Earth is an Indigenous Woman: Redefining Resilience from Indigenous Perspectives (Berkshire Taconic Regional Land Conservancy invite-only)
Nov 9, 2021: Creating BIPOC Land and Kin Sovereignty (NESAWG It Takes a Region Conference)
November 18, 2021: Indigenous Plant Knowledge & Sustainability (RAIN Network invite-only)
Teaching at Seed, Soil, and Spirit School
2020 Workshops and Presentations
January 25: Fire Cider Make n’ Take! Urban Roots Cooperative Garden Market
April-October: Seed, Soil, and Spirit School: Medicine Growing, Tending, and Making Training for BIPOC herbalists- collab with Shabina Lafleur Gangi @ Toronto Foodshare Garden, Toronto, ON
March 12: The Intersection of Healing, Justice, and Plants- McMaster University, Traditional Medicine 3H03
October: BIPOC Herbal Love-in and Skillshare: location TBD (Ontario, Canada)
2019
February 15-18: Northeast Organic Farmers Association (Vermont) 37th Annual Winter Conference
March 28, 2019: The Intersection of Healing, Justice, and Plants- McMaster University, Traditional Medicine 3H03
April 5, 2019: Medicines for Resilience & Self Care- McMaster University, Indigenous Student Services
May-October: Blind Tea Tasting Series, Niagara, ON
June 7-9: Conservation Panel: The Ethics of Threatened Native Medicinal Plants in Commercial Trade- International Herb Symposium, Wheaton College, MA
August 18-23: Decolonizing Our Hearts, Minds, & Movements- Omega Center for Sustainable Living, Rhinebeck, NY
August 24-26: Intensive: Intersections Between Herbalism, Health, and Justice: Moving from “Allyship” to “Accompliceship”- New England Women’s Herbal Conference, Camp Wicosuta, NH
2018
March 22: Brock University's Equity in Post Secondary Speakers Series
July 7: QTBIPOC Summer Retreat Wild Plant Walk, Oakville, ON
July 17: Niagara College Indigenous Student Services Wild Plant Walk, NOTL, ON
August 24-26: New England Women's Herbal Conference
August 28: Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism
October 15: Fire in the Whole! A Fire Cider Make n’ Take- Niagara, ON
November 26: Blind Tea Tasting Experience- Niagara, ON
Articles, interviews, Books, and publications featuring Me or my work
Hunt, I. (2022). Dreaming the Present: Time, Aesthetics, and the Black Cooperative Movement. University of North Carolina Press.
Carlisle, L. (2022). Healing Grounds: Climate, Justice, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming. Island Press.
Contributor: Quick Hall, K. (2021). A Conversation With Stephanie Morningstar, Coordinator of the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust. In G. Kirk (Ed.), Mapping Gendered Ecologies. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books.
This Bridge Called the System: An Interview with Stephanie Morningstar. by Irvin Hunt, Dilettante Army, Winter 2021 Edition- “Conditions on the Ground”
We Shall Not Be Moved: Collective ownership gives power back to poor farmers. Harpers Magazine, July 2020 Issue.
Morningstar, S. (2019). Healing Through Connection to Land, Self, and Stars. Peak Magazine, 58(1), spring 2019.