Collaboration and Co-Creation
We bring community leaders, scholars, and students together to explore, understand, and envision responses to the history and legacies of land dispossession.
Reconciliation through Dialogue
We support consciousness-raising, public dialogue, and equity in urban and rural spaces by unlocking the full potential of public-facing humanities.
What We Value
History as Action
Understanding the past is integral to the dialogue process. We collect, preserve, and present community history to stir community-wide conversation.
Community Building through Story
Story is the key to moving a community forward. We capture and present stories to restore community memory and regenerate connections.
Redefining Expertise
We recognize and promote communities as places of knowledge and learning, encouraging open dialogue between the traditional university and the community as such.
Race, Place and Land
The history of people’s engagement with land and place is crucial to community vitality. It helps to explain cultural, class, and race disparities. We investigate and capture these conversations.
Who We Are
Our team is a group of passionate individuals and organizations working together through collaborative research, documentary arts, and public dialogue to empower communities while seeking honest, fair and effective ways to address the legacies of land dispossession and displacement.
What We Do
We create space for collaboration and dialogue between community groups and their potential allies. Through grassroots education, formal classroom programs, collecting and preserving community history and public dialogue events, we aim to broaden understandings about the historical connections between land and race.
How to Work With Us
Whose Land is a collaborative project. We are always looking for new community partners, new collaborations, and new ideas. Find out about our services and collaborative opportunities here.