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# **Sarah Nahar**

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## University of Michigan in the Program in the Environment, Syracuse University

Sarah Nahar is a double PhD in Religious Studies at Syracuse University and Environmental Studies from State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Her research focus is on the toilet, both the ritual and receptacle. Sarah is also a nonviolent action trainer and aninterspiritual theologian. Previously, Sarah was a 2019 Rotary Peace Fellow and worked at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center in Atlanta, Georgia. She was a founding member of the ecojustice Carnival de Resistance and has been the Executive Director of Community Peacemaker Teams. She attended Spelman College, majoring in Comparative Women's Studies and International Studies, minoring in Spanish. She has an MDiv from Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary in her hometown. Her hobbies include capoeira, community organizing, and home improvement projects.

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### **Using the Doctrine of Discovery to Increase Shared Language and Conceptual Frameworks Between Black and Indigenous Feminist Organizing**

Nahar argues Doctrine of Discovery can build shared language between Black and Indigenous feminisms, strengthening solidarity against settler colonial power.

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