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Nativity Lutheran Church‘s Creation Care Team presents the first event in their series of talks called Turn On the Taps: Ensuring Clean Water For All. On Saturday, August 3 at 10:30 AM in the Picker Room, Nickie Sekera of Community Water Justice and the Maine State Water Commission will lead a conversation about local water rights in Maine.
Nickie Sekera is the co-founder of Community Water Justice, a decentralized network of people working for strong water protections at the community level across Wabanakiyik (Maine). She is a founding board member of the Saco Headwaters Alliance, Fryeburg Water District Trustee, and in 2022 was appointed by the Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives to the Commission to Study the Role of Water as a Resource in Maine.
Sekera is also a journalist with Sunlight Media Collective, a collective of Indigenous and non=indigenous journalists, media makers and advocates, centering the stories and experiences of Wabanaki people.
In the years leading up to these roles, Nickie worked as an administrator of a wilderness medicine school for 18 years after working alongside Indigenous-led remote medical clinics and education projects within the conflict zones of Eastern Burma (Myanmar). Her work in that region led to serving on the Board of Directors of the US Campaign for Burma in Washington, D.C., doing human rights and environmental justice advocacy. Most invaluably, Nickie is a mother of a son who joins her in this work. Nickie’s son, Luke, plans to be present with her for this presentation.
Community Water Justice is a network of front-line struggles in Maine determined to secure rights and accessibility to clean groundwater through education and action for future generations. Click here to sign up for the Community Water Justice email list.
Water is our right to life, unequivocally.
Our truths will be told and our actions, bold.
Join us.
This event is free and open to the public, but it is not a Camden Public Library event.