Ranae Lenor Hanson

While in retreat at Mesa Refuge, Ranae Lenor Hanson wrote significant parts of Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress. A personal health crisis, stories from environmental refugees and the painful recognition that our climate is in danger prompted Ranae’s meditation on the intimate connections between the health of the body and the health of the ecosystem. Watershed celebrates the diverse students whom Ranae taught and learned from at Minneapolis College as well as the watersheds of Minnesota where she grew up in a wide woods, often on the water in a canoe. In May of 2021 the book is be available from the U of MN Press.

In Out of the Earth, Like Iron, Ranae wrote about growing up in a wide woods, often on the water in a canoe. With a PhD in international and multicultural education, she taught writing and global studies at Minneapolis College for 31 years.

Ranae finds that the discipline of living in a diagnosed body has much to teach about the practices needed to live on a diagnosed earth. She considers the global climate crisis and subsequent immigration, ecological and racial justice and ecosystem health at ranaehanson.com.