Lavinia Currier
Eco-activist, Conservationist, Filmmaker, Pu'u O Hoku Ranch Lavinia Currier grew up between a farm in Virginia and New York City where in elementary school she founded 'Save Our Wildlife' after attending the first Earth Day. She studied religion and poetry at Harvard, then worked in Nepal with tigers. With her three children she stewards lands on Molokai, Hawaii and in the Southern San Juans of Colorado, reestablishing native forests of Hawaii and in Colorado, re-wilding lost species. She is the director of Sacharuna Foundation, supporting the rights of Indigenous peoples and endangered species.
About this speaker
Lavinia Currier grew up between a farm in Virginia and New York City where in elementary school she founded 'Save Our Wildlife' after attending the first Earth Day. She studied religion and poetry at Harvard, then worked in Nepal with tigers. Eco-theologian Thomas Berry and Brian Swimme were her mentors connecting the worlds of conservation biology and philosophy.
Lavinia made two feature films illustrating our complex relationship to nature, 'Passion in the Desert', a Balzac story of love between a soldier and a leopard, and 'Oka!', a portrait of the extraordinary Bayaka pygmies in Central Africa.
With her three children she stewards lands on Molokai, Hawaii and in the Southern San Juans of Colorado, reestablishing native forests of Hawaii and in Colorado, re-wilding lost species. She is the director of Sacharuna Foundation, supporting the rights of Indigenous peoples and endangered species.