File #: 24-0476    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Appointment Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 10/31/2024 In control: FPD Board of Commissioners
On agenda: 11/19/2024 Final action:
Title: PROPOSED APPOINTMENT Appointee(s): Kim Ruffin, Ph.D. Position: Council Member Department/Board/Commission: Conservation and Policy Council Effective Date: 1/1/2025 Expiration Date: 12/31/2027 The Council Nominating Committee recommends the appointment of Kim Ruffin to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Maria Pesqueira. Dr. Kim Ruffin is an Associate Professor and Program Director of English at Roosevelt University. Her scholarly monograph, Black on Earth: African-American Ecoliterary Traditions, put African-American writers on the map of U.S. nature writing. She is also a certified nature and forest therapy guide and a creative writer. Her audio-guided forest therapy walks (hosted by Emergence Magazine, the Denver Museum of Art, and the Forest Preserves of Cook County) have been enjoyed by thousands of local, national, and global listeners. Her current book project has been supported by a Kalliopeia Foundation grant, an Aldo and Estella Leopold Writing Pro...
Sponsors: TONI PRECKWINKLE (President)
Attachments: 1. 11.19.24 Preckwinkle _ Appointments to Council _rev1
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PROPOSED APPOINTMENT

 

Appointee(s): Kim Ruffin, Ph.D.

 

Position: Council Member

 

Department/Board/Commission:  Conservation and Policy Council

 

Effective Date:  1/1/2025

 

Expiration Date: 12/31/2027 

 

The Council Nominating Committee recommends the appointment of Kim Ruffin to fill the vacancy created by the resignation of Maria Pesqueira.

 

Dr. Kim Ruffin is an Associate Professor and Program Director of English at Roosevelt University.  Her scholarly monograph, Black on Earth: African-American Ecoliterary Traditions, put African-American writers on the map of U.S. nature writing.  She is also a certified nature and forest therapy guide and a creative writer.  Her audio-guided forest therapy walks (hosted by Emergence Magazine, the Denver Museum of Art, and the Forest Preserves of Cook County) have been enjoyed by thousands of local, national, and global listeners.  Her current book project has been supported by a Kalliopeia Foundation grant, an Aldo and Estella Leopold Writing Program Residency, and a nonfiction workshop at the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference.  In this forthcoming book, she recovers overlooked environmental testimony of the formerly enslaved from a federal archive.  This project will offer a ceremony of environmental homecoming that both returns African-American voices to the American nature story and illuminates a pathway forward in our time of ecological upheaval.   Dr. Kim Ruffin’s range of work supports her efforts to celebrate the opportunities and tackle the challenges of living on Earth.