November 30, 2022, 5PM – 6:30PM

Pratt Libraries: Alumni Reading Room

Join us live at Pratt Libraries or via WhiteboxnyFB stream to witness Mary Mattingly in conversation with Gloria Ushigua, co-founder of the Sápara women’s organization Ashiñwaka, which defends Sápara people’s ancestral land and environmental rights in Ecuador. Since 2010, Gloria has been actively defending her territory in the Amazon, primarily against private and State-owned companies seeking to exploit oil deposits. When Sápara territorial rights were threatened by a government plan to open oil blocks in Ecuador’s Southern Amazon, Gloria led successful efforts to keep the oil in the ground.