Past Presentations

Uintah Basin Speaker Series

View presentations on YouTube from past years. Speakers present information about a variety of insightful, relevant community topics.

2024-2025 | 2023-2024 | 2022-2023 | 2021-2022 | 2020-2021

YouTube Icon 2024-2025 Presentations

Sovereignty in Permitting:

Oil and Gas Development, Cacti and Land Northern Utah Reservation

Ataya Cesspooch

Women in Leadership:

A Conversation on Influencing Rural Utah

Panel Discussion
Tonya Murray, Moderator

The Art of Rural Renewal:

Lessons from Epicenter

Panel Discussion
Tonya Murray, Moderator

Drylands:

Environmental Change and Urban Growth

Dr. Hillary Hungerford

Conflict Transformation

Clair Canfield

Perspectives from the Bench

Judge Clark McClellan

YouTube Icon 2023-2024 Presentations

The Archaeology of Dinosaur National Monument

Megan Willison

Be a Good Neighbor:

Your Health Impacts Your Community

Dr. Ethan Petitt

Overcoming Fear

Sid Smith

The Impact of Stress on Cognitive Function

Les Harris

GOT ART?

How Arts and Culture Creates Strong Communities and Innovative Thinkers

Robin McClellan

From Rail to Road:

How Highways Won the West

Amanda Katz

YouTube Icon 2022-2023 Presentations

Inclusive Leadership

Wes Porter

The American Dream:

Why Education is Key in the Pursuit of Happiness

Rick Woodford

Indigenous Agriculture at the Edge of Sustainability:

Why the Uinta Basin is Important for Archaeology

Dr. Judson Byrd Finley

Using Your Knowledge and Expertise for Public Good

Mario I. Suárez

Working Toward Inclusion at USU and Beyond:

Why We Need a New Plan

Christy Glass

YouTube Icon 2021-2022 Presentations

History, Healing and Restoration

Darren Parry

Eating Disorders in Utah:

The Current Research, Treatment and Prevention

Dr. Miyairi Steele

Community Unity:

Interfaith Relationships

Kent & Lynne Smith

Better Today:

Women, Leadership and Male Allyship

Dr. Susan Madsen

The Story and Science of Dinosaur National Monument

Dan Johnson & Emily Spencer

YouTube Icon 2020-2021 Presentations

Native Worldview and Its Impact on Today

Forrest Cuch

Cultivating Resilience

Jesse Higgins

Skinwalker Ranch:

On the World's Stage

Tommy Winterton

Leading Purposefully

Shannon Dulaney

Loving our Rainbows in a Black and White World

Jenn Tuckett