Indigenous Heritage Speakers

Award-Winning LGBTQ Navajo Filmmaker & Emmy-Nominated Director

Former NASA Astronaut, First Native American in Space, Educator & Story-Teller

Tribal Attorney, Indigenous Rights Activist & Founder of Not Your Mascots

Second Native American to Win an Olympic Gold Medal & Co-Founder of Running Strong for American Indian Youth

Indigenous Climate Activist, Hip-Hop Artist, Author & Youth Director of Earth Guardians

Executive Director of Honor the Earth

Native American Filmmaker, Producer & Director; Known for Reservation Dogs, Mekko, Barking Water, and Four Sheets to the Wind

Hawaiian Transgender Teacher & Community Leader

Professional Golfer, Golf Analyst

The US Army's First Openly Trans Soldier

Singer, Songwriter, Philanthropist, & Tribal Advocate

Actor and Director; Starred in the Film "La Bamba" as Ritchie Valens

Executive Director at Seeding Justice; Racial & Social Justice Activist

The Storyteller of the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho

Award-Winning Canadian Kanien'kehá:ka Actress & Filmmaker

Award-Winning Indigenous Actress & Activist

Native Author, Speaker, Storyteller

Writer, Scholar & Distinguished Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico

Cheyenne-Holdulgee Muscogee Activist, Poet, Writer, Lecturer & Curator

Best-Selling Author, Former U.S. Air Force Officer & Enrolled Member of the Ottawa Tribe