Change Our Name will hold a Teach-In, Wednesday, January 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fort Bragg Library. Envisioned as a program to educate attendees about the issues involved in the name change and to hear neighbors’ ideas, the teach-in will last about one hour and will feature two speakers and a question and answer/discussion period. Free and open to the public.

Buffey Wright Bourassa, a member of the Sherwood Valley Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians who has ancestral connections to the Little River Pomo, Wiyot, and Pinoleville Pomo. Currently, she holds the position of Tribal Secretary on the Sherwood Valley Tribal Council 

Grace Maria Eberhardt, is  a PhD student in history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.  Grace led the movement to change the name of the Slater Museum of Natural History at the University of Puget Sound, her alma Mater, which was named after a professor who taught eugenics.