Cooweeja is back this December with our next installment of the popular Dinner with 10 Badgers event. We will be joined by Aaron Bird Bear MS’10, who will share an informal discussion about his legacy of action and advocacy at UW–Madison. Join us for a casual gathering with good conversation, good food, and, of course, good company.
Registration and attendance are free and limited to the first 10 registrants — so sign up soon!
The cost of dinner and nonalcoholic beverages is covered for registrants.
We will order at the restaurant when we arrive. Each person is welcome to order what they like off of the menu. You can take a look at the menu here.
Speaker
Aaron Bird Bear ’10 (Mandan, Hidatsa, and Diné — citizen of Three Affiliated Tribes) served as the inaugural director of tribal relations at the University of Wisconsin–Madison from 2019 until his retirement in 2023. Bird Bear began at UW–Madison in 2000 as the American Indian student academic services coordinator and later served as an assistant dean in the School of Education. From 2018 to 2023, Bird Bear served as co-principal investigator for Indigenous Learning Lab, a research project addressing educational success of Ojibwe youth in Wisconsin. At UW–Madison, Bird Bear cocreated the First Nations Cultural Landscape Tour and WisconsinFirstNations.org to help PK–12 educators teach about the Native Nations of Wisconsin. Bird Bear earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Washington–Seattle and a master’s degree from UW–Madison.
