Welcome, Alastair Lee Bitsóí!
We are thrilled to welcome Alastair Lee Bitsóí as our Spring ‘22 Practitioner-in-Residence!
Alastair is from the Navajo Nation community of Naschitti, below the Chooshgai Mountains
on the New Mexico–Arizona state line. He has been an award-winning news reporter for
the Navajo Times and communications director for the Indigenous-led land conservation
nonprofit Utah Diné Bikéyah. His consulting business, Near the Water Communications
and Media Group, trains media, nonprofits, businesses, and governments in cultural
sensitivity. Alastair is co-editor with Brooke Larsen of the Torrey House Press anthology
New World Coming: Frontline Voices on Pandemics, Uprisings, and Climate Crisis. Along with being a 2021 Public Voices Fellow on the Climate Crisis with the Op-Ed Project and Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, he has a
master’s degree in public health from New York University College of Global Public
Health and is an alumnus of Gonzaga University. He now writes for the Salt Lake Tribune as the Southern Utah reporter.
Alastair has written extensively on environmental justice issues, from articles on
the Four Corners Potato and Indigenous boarding schools to op-eds on queer voices and the climate crisis.
He has held various roles, from advocate to journalist. This provides him with a diversity
of skills, experiences, and perspectives to share with our students as they consider
their own role in critical environmental issues. Alastair's work showcases the importance
of humanities tools, such as writing, storytelling, communication, and culture, to
bring about transformative change.
Our community practitioner-in-residence program is made possible thanks to funding from the Mellon Foundation.
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