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BUDDHISM AND ECOLOGY IN THE HIMALAYAS - Activist and Entrepreneur Ang Dolma Sherpa

Ms. Ang Dolma Sherpa is an environmentally and culturally engaged social entrepreneur who won the top “ideator” award at Idea Studio Nepal 2019 for her concept of biodegradable khatak, or offering scarves, and lungta, or prayer flags. The platform led her to open her studio Utpala Craft in Kathmandu, Nepal, in 2020, creating a shift from synthetic khatak and lungta to biodegradable ones in response to the discovery of microplastics in Himalayan glaciers and streams. Ms.

A book talk with Justin Torres and Chekwube Danladi

Justin Torres comes to campus to read from his recent National Book Award-winning novel Blackouts, and to discuss it with Writer-in-Residence Chekwube Danladi. His debut novel, We the Animals, won the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award, was translated into fifteen languages, and was adapted into a feature film. He was named a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35," a Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, and a Cullman Center Fellow at the New York Public Library.