UW-Superior Indigenous Alumni Speakers Series: Dennis White

This series of speeches begins with Dennis White, who teaches mathematics and Native American art at Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University near Hayward, Wisconsin. While most of White’s career has been in Indian Education as a teacher and administrator, he has also been an engineer in software development with AT&T Bell Laboratories. White’s art earned him a selection as one of three Indigenous Artists of the Year by the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in 2009. In 2016, he was presented with an award from the Wisconsin Indian Education Association as Indian Educator of the Year. In 2017, the UW-Superior Alumni Association presented White the Distinguished Alumni of the Year Award.

Highlighting the stories of Indigenous alumni of UW-Superior and honoring their accomplishments and perspectives, the Indigenous Alumni Speakers Series will continue October 7 with Moira Villiard, November 18 with Patricia Northrup and December 3 with Jason Schlender. Events are sponsored by the Indigenous studies program, UW-Superior Indigenous Cultures Resource Center, Alumni and Friends Foundation and Social Inquiry Department.

The William “Pope” Wright Student Center is in Old Main, Room 232.