Chérie Rivers

Chérie (she/her) is a writer, teacher, and Black womanist farmer. She is founder and director of Uzuri Sanctuary, an educational biodynamic farm that integrates the legacy of freedom farming with Black and indigenous earth practices. She is an associate professor of Geography and Environment at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and has published books and articles about how colonial legacies continue to normalize social, political, and ecological violence. At Mesa, Chérie worked on Sustenance, a book integrating historic and theoretical content from her land-based courses with practical strategies for cultivating more reciprocal relationships with the earth. Chérie is a Marion Weber Healing Arts Fellow.