Home is a simple word, but the experience of finding home is personal, complex, and always evolving.
The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters invites people across Wisconsin to join our Finding Home series and explore what it means to find home through the lenses of science, arts, history, literature, and civil discourse.
In every region of the state, people shape their sense of home through cultural expression, ecological knowledge, and community care. Many are also noticing changes in the places they know best, from shifting seasons to new pressures on land, housing, and water. Finding Home programs explore how people respond with creativity, stewardship, and resilience.
At its core, Finding Home brings people with different perspectives together with the goal of deepening understanding and identifying shared values and common ground.
In our latest Finding Home video, Milwaukee’s Ken Leinbach shares how opening his home became a way to build community, care for the planet, and bring people together across generations and backgrounds. A former executive director of the Urban Ecology Center and a proud self-described “eco nut,” Ken transformed a house that was too big for one person into Hawk’s Nest Community, a shared living space rooted in sustainability, collective action, and civil discourse.
From hosting workshops and gatherings to modeling eco-friendly living through shared resources, Ken reminds us that finding home is often about connection, care, and choosing to live our values together.
