"Different voices in New World Coming tell powerful stories of loss
and difficulty plus messages of hope and promise for all as we seek a
healing future for the earth and each other."
--**REGINA LOPEZ-WHITESKUNK (Ute Mountain Ute), contributor to Edge
of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears
**
New World Coming documents the distinct moment through personal
narratives and intergenerational imaginings of a just, healthy, and
equitable future. Writers reflect on what movements for justice and
liberation can learn from the response to COVID-19, uprisings for Black
lives, and climate crisis, through essays and poems that inspire and
generate the change we need to survive and thrive.
ALASTAIR LEE BITSÓÍ (Diné) is a public health and environmental
writer from the Navajo Nation. He is an award-winning news reporter for
the Navajo Times, and served as communications director for the
Indigenous-led land conservation nonprofit, Utah Diné Bikéyah, which
continues advocacy for protection and restoration of Bears Ears National
Monument. His newly launched consulting business, Near the Water
Communications and Media Group, provides public health messaging
services for organizations. He holds a master's degree in public health
from New York University College of Global Public Health, and is an
alumnus of Gonzaga University.
BROOKE LARSEN is a writer and community organizer. She has an MA in
Environmental Humanities from the University of Utah and was the
recipient of the High Country News Bell Prize for emerging writers.
Brooke has spent the past decade organizing with the climate justice
movement. She co-founded Uplift, a youth-led organization for climate
justice in the Southwest, and was a youth delegate to the UN Climate
Change Conference in 2016 with SustainUS. Brooke resides and grew up in
Salt Lake City, Utah, ancestral land of the Goshute, Shoshone, and Ute
people.
