Lauren Redniss, Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

Oak Flat is a powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache family struggling to protect sacred land from a multinational mining corporation, by MacArthur “Genius” and National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, the acclaimed author of Thunder & Lightning.

Introduction:

Sybil Francis, Ph.D.
President & CEO of the Center for the Future of Arizona

Speakers:

Lauren Redniss
2017 New Arizona Fellow, New America
Author, Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West

Steven Tepper
Dean of ASU’s Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

Presented by the Center for the Future of Arizona in partnership with New America and the Center on the Future of War.