Rural Cinema Partnership with Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation

We are pleased to announce that Kansas Rural Center and Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation have been selected as recipients of Rural Cinema 2023 for Environmental Justice Leaders to host community film series. Food Sovereignty and Water Quality will be featured topics.

The Rural Cinema Project is a training institute and community engagement program aimed at supporting community leaders located in rural areas and small towns across the United States to utilize documentary films to advance their local efforts to move people to action on critical issues facing their area.

This year’s cohort will participate in Rural Cinema’s virtual training institute covering Working Films’ Eight Elements of Putting Films to Work, a curriculum focused on best practices for using documentary film for change. At the end of the training and through individualized consultation, community leaders will organize multiple screening events over the course of the year.

Meet Mikayla “MK” Kerron the Lead Partner to KRC on this project. She has been working closely with Jackie Keller, KRC’s Sunflower Stories Program Coordinator, to apply for, and now implement this grant. Mikayla is an Environmental/GIS Technician for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation where she coordinates the Clean Water Act 319 Nonpoint Source Pollution, Wetlands, and GIS Programs. She holds a B.A. in Indigenous and American Indian Studies from Haskell

Indian Nations University where she focused her studies on climate change in Indigenous communities and Traditional Ecological Knowledge.