Local Seafood Summit 2025
Land Acknowledgement & Keynote
About Alex Alvarez
We were honored to be welcomed by Alex Alvarez, whose ancestral tribal town is Yufalv, and he is of the bird clan. He is a proud member of the Tvlahase Wvkokaye Ceremonial Grounds near Okfuske County, Oklahoma. Alvarez is an artist, the Gifted Specialist for Escambia County Schools in Alabama, and he offers cultural consultations for several organizations and tribes.
About Diane Wilson
Diane Wilson is a fourth-generation shrimper, former boat captain, author, and mother of five who has launched environmental campaigns, demonstrations, hunger strikes, climbed towers, and even attempted to sink her boat in the fight against industrial polluters that made her rural Gulf Coast county the most polluted in the country. She is the Founder and Executive Director of San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper.