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In 2025, LiKEN deepened our commitment to building livelihoods of care across Appalachia, along the coast of Louisiana, throughout the diverse cultural and geographic regions across the United States, and around the globe. Guided by community needs, we expanded our team, strengthened cross–sector partnerships, advanced intercultural climate and water research, and continued to build resources that improve local livelihoods. LiKENeers gathered at Experience Learning in Spruce

Summer is always a busy time for LiKEN, and this year has been no different. From creek clean ups and youth paddle camps to Tribal-led...

RICHMOND, Ky. – As of July 11, 2023, in an extraordinary stride towards a safer world, the last of the United States’ once-vast chemical...

LiKEN has completed a study that evaluates the efficacy of a major law that seeks to protect families that own heirs’ property. Heirs’...

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A project of the Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network (LiKEN) In May 2020, LiKEN initiated a project to develop educational materials...

A project of the Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network (LiKEN) Heirs’ property is created when land passes without a will to two or more...

By Craig Williams In February 2015, Kinder- Morgan, Inc., one of the nation’s largest energy infrastructure companies, proposed the...

By Mary Hufford, Director of Stories of Place The Stories of Place, Martin County team, photographed during a field trip to Appalshop in...

CAFTA advisors, field team members, and LiKENeers assembled for a group photo on a windy day, closing out the first of three Summits at...

On May 1, 2019 LiKEN’s Executive Director, Betsy Taylor was invited to speak at the National Academy of Sciences. The forum was...