Collaborative Leadership Project Next Generation Interview: Sisterhood initiative member Mia Veljacic

About this film

The Collaborative Leadership Project (a project of the University of Washington’s Center for Urban Waters, CUW/Puget Sound Institute, PSI) has conducted and filmed oral history interviews with conveners, sponsors, participants, and practitioners from landmark natural resource collaborations conducted in the state of Washington (WA) since the mid-1970s. The goal of the Project is to capture and document as much insight and as many recollections as possible, before anything else is lost to retirements, fading memories, and other losses; and to archive these digitized oral histories. The original copies are housed in the University of Washington Libraries Special Collections. More information on the Project is available at https://www.pugetsoundinstitute.org/collaboration/collaborative-leadership-project/ . Now the Collaborative Leadership Project wants to capture the perspectives of future leaders in natural resource management and Collaborative Governance. The UW Sisterhood initiative is a 2 year program for first year women of color at UW. The program provides students with academic support as well as provides a space to be in community with other women of color. Mia is majoring in…

Directors & creators

Interviewee: Mia Veljacic Interviewer: Isa Saiz videographer: Isa Saiz

Subjects

Collaborative Governance, Collaboration, Environmental Justice, Education, Environment, Climate Resilience

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