Activist, filmmaker and educator Miho Aida is an outdoor adventurer committed to broadening access to nature and the ecological world as a woman of color.
Activist, filmmaker and educator Miho Aida is an outdoor adventurer committed to broadening access to nature and the ecological world as a woman of color.
As part of her tour of Hawaii, Aida will screen her award-winning film “The Sacred Place Where Life Begins: Gwich’in Women Speak” and sign copies of the book “We Are the Arctic” at 7 p.m. June 27 at Volcano Art Center’s Niaulani Campus.
The presentation is free.
“Gwich’in Women Speak” is a short, 20-minute film that explores the relationship between Gwich’in women, an Alaska native people living in what is now known as the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and the porcupine caribou herd that is the basis for their subsistence lifestyle and culture.
Originally from Tokyo, Aida entered academia with a lifelong fascination with nature. After earning a master’s degree studying the effect of climate change on alpine plants at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, she attended the graduate program at Teton (Wyo.) Science School to become an environmental educator.
Since then, she has dedicated herself to educating young people at the NatureBridge, a nonprofit environmental education partner of the National Park Service.
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