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Dylan Robinson

Dylan Robinson is a xwélmexw (Stó:lō/Skwah) artist, curator, writer and author who seeks to prioritize Indigenous resurgence through writing, curation and interarts practice. He is the author of “Hungry Listening: Resurgent Theory for Indigenous Sound Studies” (University Minnesota Press, 2020).

Camille Georgeson-Usher

Camille Georgeson-Usher is a Coast Salish / Sahtu Dene / Scottish writer, artist, long-distance runner, scholar and Audain Senior Curatorial Advisor on Indigenous Art at the Vancouver Art Gallery. Usher is interested in the many ways in which peoples move together through space, how public art becomes a site for gathering, and intimacies with the everyday from an Indigenous perspective. 

Joseph M. Pierce

Joseph M. Pierce is a Cherokee Nation citizen, associate professor and founding director of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative at Stony Brook University and author of “Speculative Relations: Indigenous Worlding and Repair” (Duke University Press, 2025). 

Sonia Guiñansaca

Sonia Guiñansaca is a Kichwa-Kañari poet and cultural strategist. Their most recent poetry collection, “Nostalgia Y Fronteras,” was published and translated in Spanish and Kichwa in 2023 with Severo Editorial.

Gwen Westerman

Gwen is a Dakota language speaker, co-author of the book "Mni Sota Makoce: The Land of the Dakota," and has served as the poet laureate of Minnesota since 2021. She has two poetry collections: "Follow the Blackbirds" (2013) and "Songs, Blood Deep" (2023).

Diane Wilson

Diane Wilson is a writer, educator and bog steward who has published six award-winning books and whose recent essays explore seed advocacy, food sovereignty, social justice and cultural recovery. Wilson is enrolled on the Sicangu Oyate (Rosebud) reservation in South Dakota and is a Mdewakanton descendent.

Eve Tuck

Eve Tuck’s work is on collaborative Indigenous research, Indigenous feminisms, and land education. She is the James Weldon Johnson Professor of Indigenous Studies at Steinhardt and Gallatin, New York University and the founding director of the new Provostial Center for Indigenous Studies at NYU, called the Center for Collaborative Indigenous Research with Communities and Lands (Center CIRCL). Tuck is Unangax̂ and is an enrolled member of the Aleut Community of St. Paul Island, Alaska.

Hala Alyan

Hala Alyan is the author of the novels “Salt Houses” and “The Arsonists’ City.” She is also the author of five highly acclaimed collections of poetry, including “The Twenty-Ninth Year” and “The Moon That Turns You Back.” Her recently published memoir, “I'll Tell You When I'm Home” is a finalist for the 2026 Pulitzer Prize.

Joan Naviyuk Kane

Joan Naviyuk Kane is Iñupiaq with family from Ugiuvak (King Island) and Qawiaraq (Mary's Igloo), Alaska. Her most recent volume of poetry, “with snow pouring southward past the window” (2026) follows “The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife” (2009), “Hyperboreal” (2013), “The Straits” (2015), “Milk Black Carbon” (2017), “Sublingual” (2018), “A Few Lines in the Manifest” (2018), “Another Bright Departure” (2019), “Dark Traffic” (2021) and “Ex Machina” (2023).

Princess Daazhraii Johnson

Princess Daazhraii Johnson is Neets'aii Gwich'in, and her family is from Arctic Village, Alaska. She is a Peabody Award-winning producer and writer and has multiple Emmy nominations. She is also a director and actor. She is known for her work on “Molly of Denali” (2019), “True Detective” (2014), “Gath & K'iyh” (2024) and “Shaaghan Neekwaii (Two Old Women)” (2025). Princess works alongside a large community of Indigenous creatives to defend the sacred and advance the landback movement in Alaska and around the world. She is a board member of NDN Collective and works for Native Movement in Alaska. She is also a founding member of the Fairbanks Climate Action Coalition. 

Kai Recollet

An urban Cree scholar, artist and writer, Kai Recollet’s work focuses on relationality and care as both an analytic and technology for Indigenous movement-based forms of inquiry within urban spaces. Recollet explores celestial land pedagogies as “kinstillatory” in her work — expressing an understanding of land pedagogy that exceeds the terrestrial. Recollet co-writes with dance choreographers and artists engaged in other mediums to expand upon methodologies that consider land relationships and kinship-making practices that are going to take us into the future.

Emily Johnson

Emily Johnson is an artist who makes body-based work. Johnson belongs to the Yup'ik Nation, is a land and water protector and an organizer for justice, sovereignty and well-being. A Bessie Award-winning choreographer, Guggenheim Fellow and recipient of the Doris Duke Artist Award, she is based in Lenapehoking.