CMD WELCOMES JENNIFER GRENZ

Dr. Jennifer Grenz

Dr. Jennifer Grenz is a Nlaka’pamux, Indigenous Ecologist and Scholar. She is well-known for her talents in science communication, having traveled across North America sharing her stories and experiences working on environmental advocacy, invasive species management, and Restoration Ecology.

Dr. Jennifer Grenz is a Nlaka’pamux, Indigenous Ecologist and Scholar. She is well-known for her talents in science communication, having traveled across North America sharing her stories and experiences working on environmental advocacy, invasive species management, and Restoration Ecology. Jennifer’s life’s work has been to try and bring healing to the lands and waters of the pacific northwest. After almost two decades of this work, she became frustrated that despite the best efforts of her colleagues and numerous volunteers, they were not making the meaningful change needed for communities (plants, animals, and humans) to adapt to the rapidly changing climate thrust upon them. It is this that sent her on a personal journey of connecting her head (western science) and her heart (Indigenous worldview) to find answers.

MEDICINE WHEEL FOR THE PLANET, is the book that follows Jennifer on this journey of both despair and triumph as she struggles as a western trained scientist learning to see her work from her Indigenous worldview. The stories she shares from working deep in the bush and sitting with knowledge keepers and Elders on the land take us around the teachings of the medicine wheel leading us to a new understanding of our role in the ecosystem. A change in environmental philosophy that demonstrates how we need more than a singular worldview to make the meaningful change we are running out of time for. A book that is a call to action to rethink our role in the health of our planet.

Jennifer is represented by Stephanie Sinclair.