| The Tennessee Valley Chapter is thrilled to bring Dr. J. Drew Lanham back to Chattanooga as our Distinguished Lecturer on Friday, October 2nd!
This free event does require registration.
We are excited to provide the opportunity to purchase his books from The Book & Cover and original artwork created for the event by Dayna of Solstice Handmade. We will also have some time available for book signing. Consider making it a weekend event and join us for our fall Native Plant Sale at Grace Episcopal, 20 Belvoir Ave., Chattanooga on Saturday, Oct. 3th!
J. Drew Lanham is a cultural ornithologist, naturalist, educator, and writer using robust science, artful essays, and evocative oratory to color the conservation conversation. Guided by principles of interconnectedness and interdependence, Dr. Lanham’s work centers on the growing issues within environmental justice as observed through the multifaceted perspective of a Black Southern man. As a storyteller, poet, and passionate advocate for accessibility and stewardship, his writing is in praise of wandering and wildness and in protest against all not justice or joy.
Lanham is a Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Master Teacher at Clemson University. He was awarded the 2024 Thoreau Prize for Nature Writing, has received a MacArthur “Genius” Grant (2022) as well as the Dan W. Lufkin Conservation Award from the National Audubon Society (2019), the Rosa Parks and Grace Lee Boggs Outstanding Service Award from the North American Association for Environmental Education (2016), and the E. O. Wilson Award for Outstanding Science in Biodiversity Conservation from the Center for Biological Diversity (2020) and the Thoreau Award in 2024. He served as the Poet Laureate of Edgefield, South Carolina (2022). Lanham and his family lives on a farm in the Upstate of South Carolina.
Education B.A. and M.S. in Zoology, Clemson University Ph.D. in Forest Resources, Clemson University
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