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Julianne Warren is a freelance writer, storyteller, and organizer with degrees in music, linguistics, and a Ph.D. in wildlife ecology.Ìý

Coming from a family-culture of white, U.S. middle class privilege and fundamentalist-evangelical restrictions, Julianne thinks a lot about what itÌýmeans to participate in and resist oppressive systems. As an ex-vangelical and unsettling settler, she has been relearning the world, on repeat. ForÌýher, this means learning first to listen on-the-way to becoming a better relation, particularly in allyship.Ìý

Julianne's works—many of which tune into the inaudible although unfallen silent, of humankinds and all kinds—appear in a variety of venues. TheseÌýinclude,ÌýNewfound,ÌýMinding Nature,ÌýZoomorphic,ÌýThe Poetry LabÌýof The Merwin Conservancy,ÌýLost and Found Theatrum Anatomicum,Ìýand The Deutsches Museum,Ìýand several book collections as well as talks and sound art performances.

She has authored an intellectual biography,ÌýAldo Leopold’s Odyssey, developing this influential U.S. conservationist’s ‘land health’ concept. It is oneÌýthat resists industrial-capitalist assumptions and practices, yet not settler colonial and white supremacist ones. In a new collaborative project thatÌýis centered by Indigenous colleagues’ insights, Julianne is sounding out troubling details in Leopoldian inheritances. Looking back, she is self-critiquing her complicity. To listen, in this case, is to explicitly refuse—and, to suggest protocols for refusing—oppressive proposals of her birth-cultural ancestors with commitment to anti-racism and decolonizing alternative futures.

Julianne gratefully acknowledges the many gifts of educational labor and expert knowledges shared by members of the Gwich’in Steering Committee andÌýNative Movement. While living far north, she served for two years with an allied grassroots group, the Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition, as a councilÌýmember and co-facilitator of #KeepItIntheGround! working group. For her Arctic Refuge advocacy support, the Northern Alaska Environmental Center honoredÌýJulianne as an Activist of the Year. She also has been serving as a support coordinator for Gwich’in Steering Committee in their Indigenous Womens’ stories bookÌýproject.Ìý

As a New York University faculty, Julianne teamed with students growing NYU Divest: Go Fossil Free!/Decarbonize. Thanks to student nominations, NYUÌýawarded Julianne a Martin Luther King, Junior Faculty Research Award for participation in intergenerational work. Although, unfortunately, theÌýinstitution (so far) has only partially divested.ÌýÌý

Julianne’s visiting engagements are wide-ranging and include core faculty appointments for two U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities SummerÌýInstitutes. She has been a Massey University International Visitors Fund Scholar-in-Residence in Aotearoa New Zealand. She was a visiting lecturer atÌýHunan University in Changsha, China.
 Julianne was named a Scholar and Fellow at the Center for Humans and Nature. She also served as an EcosphereÌýStudies collaborator and visiting scholar at The Land Institute in traditional lands of the Kaw Nation Salina Kansas.

For the past year, Julianne has been writing while absorbing sunlight in ancestral Tewa homelands, Jemez Pueblo, New Mexico and reviewingÌýresponsibilities to her original home-place in traditional Munsee Lenape lands Catskills, New York. She, with her partner, is scheming a late winterÌýreturn to their community in the traditional territories of the lower Tanana Dene Peoples and the Dena'ina Peoples occupied by Fairbanks, Alaska.