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Serena Cisneros is Anishinaabe from the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation in Wisconsin. She is the first Indigenous Student Center Embedded Mental Health Provider at the  University of Wisconsin–Madison. She has worked in mental health for over 15 years working in inpatient, outpatient, and community-based agencies. 

Montana Qinuran Murphy is from Anchorage, Alaska, with family ties to Curyung (Dillingham, Alaska). She works at the Bristol Bay Foundation supporting Indigenous culture and language education for the Bristol Bay region. She is a passionate Yup’ik language learner and an enrolled member of the Curyung Tribal Council.

Kusemaat – Shirley L. Williams is a Lummi Nation community member, registered nurse, and Co-Founder and Executive Director of Whiteswan Environmental (WE), and Co-Founder of Whatcom Intergenerational High School (WIHS). Her work advances classroom-to-place-based learning as an Indigenous educational pathway grounded in Straits Salish homelands, strengthening youth leadership and intergenerational education. She addresses the root causes of trauma impacting Indigenous …

Dr. Lauren Eckert is a conservation scientist, storyteller, and postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Indigenous Fisheries (University of British Columbia), fundamentally interested in equitable science and practice that embraces multiple disciplines, knowledges, and approaches. Her research collaboratively weaves Indigenous and Western knowledges across contexts, including Indigenous-led marine management and fisheries justice, and through the partnered application of Etuaptmumk/Two-Eyed Seeing. …

Dr. PanigkaqAgatha John-Shields is the daughter of the late Dr. Chief Kangrilnguq Paul John and Anguyaluk Martina John of Nunakauyaq (Toksook Bay), Alaska. Before serving in her current position as an Associate Professor for Indigenizing Education at the University of Alaska Anchorage, she served in Bethel, Alaska, as a Yugtun language teacher, materials developer, and principal at Ayaprun Elitnaurvik Yup’ik …

Lorena Germán is a three-time nationally awarded Dominican American educator focused on culturally sustaining education. She has taught English Language Arts from grades 6-12 in both public and private schools. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, NPR, PBS, Rethinking Schools, EdWeek, Learning for Justice Magazine, and more. She published The Anti Racist Teacher: Reading Instruction Workbook, …

Judith A. Korn is a PhD candidate and lecturer in Educational Psychology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her work focuses on moral development and its relationship to social and emotional learning, academic achievement, mental health, and community flourishing. Originally from Juneau, Alaska, she has explored moral education with educators, children, and youth across continents, in places as varied as Chile, …

Hana’ackm Ggoadm ‘Tsoal / Naomi Leask (she/her) is honored to be guest on the unceded territory of the Áakʼw Ḵwáan. She is Ts’msyen and was born and raised in Su Maxłaxaała where she was a cultural educator for 20+years. Naomi’s teaching methods are a reflection of her grandmother and mother’s teachings that have passed down through the generations—land and strength …

Seth Norell Bader (he/him) lives on Lingít Aaní (Tlingit Land) and has taught science in classrooms between Washington and Alaska for the past 15 years. You can find him spending most of his time exploring the waters and mountains of Southeast Alaska with his wife and two- year-old. He is also the founder and Education Director for Fathoms Alaska, a …

Seiya’ Eesh Jeffrey Skaflestad, of Norwegian and Tlingit descent, serves as a Community Specialist for the Huna Heritage Foundation and is an accomplished Tlingit carver and formline artist. An avid historian and researcher, he is deeply passionate about local history and culture, building on a diverse career that includes decades as an award-winning science teacher and a high lead logger. …