Shiloh Krupar and Sarah Kanouse join Hanford Challenge for the Nuclear Waste Scholar Series. They will discuss their living digital document: A People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado, which incorporates essays, maps, issue briefs, and art from more than 40 contributors to showcase the nuclear legacy of Colorado. The atlas highlights issues including the seizure of tribal lands, secrecy, environmental contamination, worker exposures, and downwinder exposures that are similarly prevalent at Hanford.

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Shiloh Krupar is a geographer and Provost’s Distinguished Associate Professor at Georgetown University, where she directs the Culture and Politics Program in the School of Foreign Service. Shiloh is author of Hot Spotter’s Report: Military Fables of Toxic Waste, co-author of Deadly Biocultures: The Ethics of Life-making, and co-author of the forthcoming volume Exaction: Governing Territories of Austerity, Bias, and Dross. Shiloh received a Ph.D. in Geography from the University of California-Berkeley. She holds an MA in East Asian Studies from Stanford University and a BA from Case Western University. She is co-editor of A People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado.

Sarah Kanouse is an interdisciplinary artist and critical writer examining the political ecology of landscape and space. Sarah has contributed to exhibitions, festivals, creative research platforms, film festivals, and academic institutions worldwide. She is also the author or co-author of thirty peer-reviewed or invited publications. Sarah is Associate Professor of Media Arts in the Department of Art + Design at Northeastern University. She holds an MFA degree from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and an undergraduate degree from Yale University. She is co-editor of A People’s Atlas of Nuclear Colorado.

The Nuclear Waste Scholar Series is funded through a Public Participation Grant from the Washington State Department of Ecology. The content was reviewed for grant consistency, but is not necessarily endorsed by the agency.