Join writer and photographer Tracy L. Barnett for a screening of "The Body as Territory," a short film by The Esperanza Project, followed by a discussion. The Esperanza Project is a nonprofit, bilingual online magazine and media empowerment project covering social and environmental change-makers in the Americas. Adults and teens.
Join writer and photographer Tracy L. Barnett for a screening of "The Body as Territory," a short film by The Esperanza Project, followed by a discussion. The film examines three Indigenous communities in Colombia, how the human body is intimately connected with its territory and how you cannot have the wellness of one without the other. (23 min.)
Adults and teens.
The Esperanza Project is a nonprofit, bilingual online magazine and media empowerment project covering social and environmental change-makers in the Americas.
Tracy L. Barnett is an independent writer and photographer focused on regenerative culture, indigenous rights and travel. She is the founding editor of The Esperanza Project/El Proyecto Esperanza and was a founding editor of ¡Adelante! at the University of Missouri School of Journalism, where she served as assistant professor for more than a decade. She has served as an editor and staff writer at the Columbia Daily Tribune, the San Antonio Express-News, the Houston Chronicle and the Santa Cruz (Calif.) Sentinel, among others. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, BBC Travel, National Geographic Traveler en Español, Esquire Latin America and many more. She is currently at work on a book about her year-long backpacking trip through Latin America: "Looking for Esperanza: One Woman’s Search for Hope Through the Other America."
