by Nigora Erkaeva | Dec 18, 2025 | Blog, Indigenous Ways of Knowing, Place-Based Education, SEMIS Staff Spotlight
Learn more about Nigora! Check out our social media “The practice of observing the living world and taking inspirations for human ways of living from its model is an essential element of indigenous science. It embraces the reality that there are intelligences other...
by Sarah Halson | Nov 25, 2025 | Blog, Place-Based Education, SEMIS Staff Spotlight
Learn more about Anna! Check out our social media Dear SEMIS Coalition Members, Earlier this month, the SEMIS Coalition co-hosted the 9th National Place-Based Education Conference with the Great Lakes Stewardship Initiative, bringing over 500 educators from across the...
by Anna Balzer | Oct 16, 2025 | Blog, Place-Based Education, SEMIS Staff Spotlight
Learn more about Anna! Check out our social media Dear SEMIS Coalition Members, This time last year, as I was writing this monthly blog, I found myself thinking about the changing of seasons, how the seasons connect to our collaborative and individual processes of...
by Anna Balzer | Jul 9, 2024 | Blog, Gratitude, Power of Community, SEMIS Staff Spotlight
Greetings SEMIS Coalition members! I am so honored and excited to be serving as the new Director for the Southeast Michigan Stewardship Coalition and to be working within and across this powerful, and hopeful community. If we haven’t met yet, my name is Anna Balzer...
by SEMIS Coalition | Mar 20, 2022 | SEMIS Staff Spotlight
Nigora is a first-generation immigrant, person of color, international student, indigenous to Central Asia, ecofeminist, ecojustice, decolonizing, and place-based scholar. She is also a mother and a constant learner. Nigora joined the SEMIS Coalition leadership team...
