Help Support the UNE Donna M. Loring Lecture Series
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When you make a gift to one of these challenges by March 24, you directly support the initiatives and opportunities that make the UNE student experience unique. Your gift brings meaningful projects and programs to life and creates lasting impact.
Donna M. Loring Lecture Series Challenge 2026
The Loring lecture series explores Indigenous rights, civil rights, social justice, environmental issues, and human rights through public speakers, classroom experiences, and other activities. Your gifts will unlock an additional gift of $400 from Dean Elizabeth Dyer, MLIS, MS.Ed.
A video from the Maine Women’s Writers highlighting one of the Donna Loring Lecture Series topics. Four master basket makers were brought together to create a basket made of natural birch bark and cedar traditional materials and one other basket made of totally non natural materials. The idea being that in the future if there was not ash left due to the invasive species the Emerald Ash Bore how would we carry on the basket making tradition. The four Master Basket Makers were Penobscot : Jennifer Neptune, Sarah Sockbeson, Pamela Cunnungham, Passamaquoddy: Geo Soctomah Neptune.
Recommended Reading
Maine’s Still Reading: Images and essays celebrating literary culture in the Pine Tree State, photographs by Buddy Doyle, foreword by Stephen Wallace. Available at independent bookstores and from Islandport Press.
Tracy Matsue Loeffelholz, “What Japanese Internment Taught Us About Standing Up for Our Neighbors,” yes!: Solutions Journalism, June 12, 2017. Background source for new writing We Were Never Promised Inclusion: The Growing Danger for Native Citizenship and Sovereignty in America.