Welcome, I’m Lathram —
Wherever you are, may we take a deep breath together.
People I love in my life call me a weaver. While I am learning to weave with my hands, what they mean is a weaver of peoples and knowledge. Pulling fibers together for connection, learning, questioning. If you feel aligned, or even sparks of curiosity, with what is shared through these pages, I would love the opportunity to work – and weave – with you.
I am a facilitator, educator, writer, organizer, and land steward, currently creating in Uetvmkv (wee-dum-guh) / Wetumpka, AL, what we also call the place of flying water. With over ten years of experience, I gather my skills specific to facilitation, curriculum development, and coaching to bring offerings to learners of all ages, individuals and groups. Informed by land, its people, and the stories we carry, I work with folks who are eager to reconnect to place, investigate conventional knowledge, and become undone only to be put back together with the help of the ecosystems around us.
“Lathram is a person of profound integrity, strength, and resolve. Embodying deep love for earth and community, she navigates complexity with authenticity, grace, and creativity. Anyone who has the opportunity to spend time with Lathram will benefit from her listening, discernment, and healing presence.”
— Hilary Giovale, Author of Becoming A Good Relative
“Lathram has a particular ability to facilitate reflection and dialogue within communities of class privilege, helping translate analysis into responsibility and action. Her contributions have strengthened our work and reflect a clear dedication to advancing economic justice. We trust her integrity and believe her work will make a meaningful contribution to building greater class consciousness and solidarity.”
— Benny Overton, Co-Director of Southeast Center for Cooperative Development
“Our work with Lathram Berry provided our Global Studies Concentration students with a meaningful lens into Indigenous communities and perspectives. As a facilitator, Lathram led with humility and empathy, modeling for my students how to approach the study of culture with respect and care.”
— Leigh Roberts, Director of Global Studies, Battle Ground Academy
Tending to Land and Life in Uetvmkv, Alabama
Uetvmkv (wee-dum-guh) / Wetumpka, where I currently tend to land and life, is Mvskoke for something like flying water, a fitting name as the Coosa River rises and water flies. This is due to a meteor which landed here 85 million years ago, permanently altering the topography and creating a micro-climate in the surroundings. Uetvmkv is uniquely positioned where three rivers – Coosa, Tallapoosa, and the Alabama – meet and travel southward to the Alabama River Delta. This river has carried many; some lovingly, others by force with no choice but to corroborate. It carried Indigenous peoples pushed westward on barges; it carried stolen African peoples indigenous to their homes far away to some of the largest trading ports nearby; it carried sturgeon, now endangered due to hydro-electric dams, swimming from the sea back to the river to spawn, to bring back Life. Uetvmkv – the last Mvskoke capital of Oce Vpofv before forced removal of the Trail of Tears, where today, I listen closely and respond accordingly.