Melina Roise

Melina Ann Roise (she/they) is a sometimes grower / sometimes academic, dancer, writer, and artist of plant medicines. She graduated from Bard College in 2021 with a degree in Human Rights, and has returned to Bard to work with Rethinking Place: Bard-on-Mahicantuck and the Center for Indigenous Studies at Bard College, and recently completed a curatorial fellowship with COMMON GROUND: an international festival on the politics of land and food. In addition to playing with botanicals and hanging out with worms, Melina is a maker of many birthday cakes and works with the Palestine Heirloom Seed Library. She currently lives on and with unceded Munsee / Mohican land on the banks of the Mahicannituck (Hudson River) in what is currently referred to as Catskill, NY.

2023 Participant