Presentation by author Sarah E. Berns

Join us as we celebrate International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists on Wednesday, March 25th at the Kooi Library at Sheridan College at 3 p.m.

The event will begin with a short presentation about the IYRP by the director of our Agriculture Department Mae Smith, followed by a presentation by author, and resident at Ucross Sarah E. Berns.

Sarah Berns has won an arm-wrestling match in the oldest saloon in Washington state; rounded up bison on horseback through the Palouse prairie; put her arm into a cow’s rear to check on its unborn calf; and bucked hay bales under a once-in-a-millennium heat dome. Berns has been a doula for 15 years, helping pregnant people before, during and after giving birth. She once delivered a baby in a pickup truck, on the side of a country road, on a subzero winter night — and didn’t even write a country song about it. Berns has published essays and opinion pieces in Outside Magazine and at Shondaland. Her personal essay, Finding Home in the West – by Smokejumping, was annotated on the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. Longreads included her essay, Love and the Burning West, on its Weekly Top 5 Longreads of the Week, and included the piece in its list of favorite essays about wildfire. She has been a finalist for the Sundance Writers Lab and also for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Nicholl Fellowship in screenwriting. Berns’s unique perspective on firefighting has made her a sought-after voice for those writing about fire. She has been quoted in The Atlantic and in the Huffington Post. She has served as the wildfire consultant for the award-winning animated children’s series, The Stinky & Dirty Show, as well as the consultant for the middle-grade book, Smokejumpers. The CBS program 60 Minutes+ interviewed her for an episode about smokejumping.

For more information contact:
Jennifer Anderson
janderson@sheridan.edu
307.675.0221

In Partnership with Ucross.