Environmental Fridays, Oct. 7
Welcome to Season III, Episode 4, of Environmental Fridays ... it is personal.
Join us this coming Friday, Oct. 7, 2022, for Environmental Fridays, Episode 4, at 9:30 a.m. EST to listen and learn about "Butterfly Resurrection: A Path to Increasing Biodiversity—Garden with Wings, FoBGTT" with poet, entrepreneur, artist and environmental activist Serina Allison Hearn.
Our co-host for Episode 4 is academic director Dr. Marva Ribeiro, of SITAL College of Tertiary Education, Trinidad and Tobago.
The Zoom Meeting link is https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85270285938?pwd=REpoc3VjVkdRN1dJRkkvbDd2eHJvZz09.
- Meeting ID: 852 7028 5938
- Passcode: 948025
Share with others. Everyone is welcome. Environmental Fridays is free to all—students, professionals, community.
Contact Desmond Hartwell Murray, associate professor of chemistry, at murrayd@andrews.edu if you have any questions.
Guest Speaker Bio
Serina Allison Hearn is a published author, poet, artist, business owner and environmental activist of Trinidadian birth and heritage who currently resides in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. In Lawrence she spearheads the restoration of many historic turn-of-the-century houses and her small, family-owned business provides homes to Kansas University students. Concurrently, she is an active executive member of the Friends of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Port of Spain, Trinidad. She initiated and designed layout for the "Garden with Wings" project at the Gardens to plant butterfly gardens with indigenous plants to support pollinators and to educate people about the environment. She attended and graduated from Bishops Anstey High School in Port of Spain, Trinidad, before going on to study at St. Martins School of Art in London, England. Her published poems are contained in two volumes: "Atlas of Our Birth" (2010) and "Dreaming the Bronze Girl" (2002). She wrote and published four environmental pieces from 2020 to 2021.
Co-Host Bio
Dr. Marva Ribeiro served at all levels of the education system for more than 49 years as secondary school teacher, vice principal, curriculum officer, assistant director—Research and Evaluation, programme director—International Cooperation Initiatives in Education, Ministry of Education, and adjunct lecturer at the University of the West Indies School of Education.
She continues to support her alma mater as a member of the St. George’s College Alumni Association and serves as chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Centre for Persons with Disabilities. Presently, as academic director of SITAL College of Tertiary Education, Dr. Ribeiro works to assist the College to develop and transform itself to take its rightful place in the tertiary education business sector.
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