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Altruistic Behavior Institute 40th Anniversary - Conversation on Altruism with Shaunna McCovey

HSU Native Forum

The Altruistic Behavior Institute’s 40th Anniversary Conversations on Altruism series recognizes that 2022-23 is the 40th Anniversary of the Altruistic Personality and Prosocial Behavior Institute’s founding at Humboldt State University (now the Altruistic Behavior Institute at Cal Poly Humboldt). These public conversations will join seasoned academics, researchers, practitioners, and educators with a new generation of those interested in possibilities for doing good. Held on campus at Cal Poly Humboldt, the multidisciplinary dialogues will honor the work of Sam and Pearl Oliner and raise awareness about the Oliner Altruism Research Archive.

Please join Professors Maral Attallah and Ronnie Swartz for a Conversation on Altruism with Shaunna McCovey.

Shaunna Oteka McCovey is Yurok and Karuk and a member of the Yurok Tribe. She is currently the Director of Governmental Affairs at Resighini Rancheria. Shaunna has worked for Tribal Governments, environmental non-profits and the Federal Government, including Trinidad Rancheria, where she was the Deputy CEO, the Department of the Interior, Indian Affairs, Office of Self-Governance, where she negotiated compacts with Tribal nations, she worked in marine planning and tribal affairs while at the Portland, OR based non-profit, Ecotrust, and as a Policy Manager for Marine Spatial Planning at Ocean Conservancy in Washington, DC. She held multiple positions for the Yurok Tribe including acting Executive Director, Deputy Executive Director, Self-Governance Officer and staff attorney. She has also been an associate professor at Humboldt State University.

Shaunna is a poet and author. Her poems, essays and have appeared in magazines, anthologies and online journals, including News From Native California, The National Museum of the American Indian Magazine, Edible Portland, The Journal of Poverty, The Dirt is Red Here: Art and Poetry from Native California, Eating Fire, Tasting Blood: Breaking the Great Silence of the American Indian Holocaust, Red Indian Road West, Through the Eye of the Deer, and National Geographic’s Ocean Views Blog, and most recently, Ka’m t’em: A Journey Toward Healing, and Mni-Wiconi: Water is Life. Her poem, I Still Eat All of My Meals with a Mussel Shell appears in the 2020 anthology, When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through, edited by US Poet Laureate, Joy Harjo. She is the author the poetry book, The Smokehouse Boys and New Poems, which was recently reprinted.

Shaunna is a graduate of Humboldt State University, where she is a Distinguished Alumni, she holds a Master’s Degree in social work from Arizona State University. Shaunna also earned both a Master’s Degree in environmental law and policy and a Juris Doctorate from Vermont Law School. In May of 2018, she received an Honorary Doctorate from Marlboro College in Vermont for her contributions to poetry and her Tribal people.

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• HSU Native Forum

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• Free