Project Collaborator
Monique Verdin
Biography
Monique Verdin is an artist, citizen of the Houma Nation, and Bvlbancha Liberation Radio collaborator. She supports the Okla Hina Ikhish Holo, network of Indigenous gardeners, as the WECAN Gulf South food sovereignty coordinator. Monique is the primary steward of the Land Memory Bank & Seed Exchange, facilitating community-built record-making, experiential education, research, and site activations celebrating the diversity of coastal communities and native ecologies present in the wetlands, swamps, and prairies of south Louisiana. Monique co-stewards the Nanih Bvlbancha (2024) earthen mound in New Orleans and is a Gulf South Open School collaborator, experimenting with autonomous and alternative communication systems with the mutual aid SwampNet project.
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