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Join Michelle Latvala as she bridges Alaska’s boreal wilds and inner worlds with poetry on place, ancestry, resilience, and climate!

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Between Latitudes is rooted in both the practice of forging a life in the boreal forest of Alaska and finding footing in other latitudes. Latvala provides a gateway into our complex human experience through her vast emotional and poetic range, exploring interior and exterior lives across generations and a changing climate. 

Michelle Latvala is the author of Between Latitudes (Green Writers Press). She is faculty for poet David Whyte’s Institute for Conversational Leadership on Whidbey Island, served as Executive Director of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in northern California for a decade, and founded Insight Outside, which integrates writing and meditation programs in wild places. Michelle migrates thoughtfully between responsibilities in California and Alaska, where she built a cabin at the same latitude her Finnish ancestors inhabited for centuries in the shared circumpolar boreal forest. 

Learn more at:

www.michellelatvala.com @michelle.latvala

Michelle will be in conversation with: 

Sara Airoldi brings 25 years of experience working with staff, youth, and communities to create ecosystems of care grounded in equity, diversity, and inclusion here in Bellingham. Her work has included wilderness counseling, treatment centers helping youth end intergenerational abuse cycles, and facilitating workshops with human serving agencies. She earned a Masters of Education in Adult and Higher Education from Western Washington University and considers her life's work to uplift community and integrate practices of continuous learning and interconnection.         

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