Sage Andrew Romero is a member of the Tovowahamatu Numu (Big Pine Paiute) and Tuah-Tahi (Taos Pueblo) Tribes. He is an accomplished Hoop Dancer and has traveled internationally sharing the Culture of his people through song, story, dance and art. Sage also founded the AkaMya Culture Group which first began as a group that provided a safe place… Read more »
Tsanavi Spoonhunter
Tsanavi Spoonhunter (Director and Producer) is a descendant of the Northern Paiute Tribe, and citizen of the Northern Arapaho Tribe. Her ancestry and upbringing in Indian Country have strongly informed her storytelling and artistic vision. In 2020, Spoonhunter earned her master’s degree from the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley with… Read more »
Faith Phillips
Faith Phillips is a novelist, screenwriter, and producer living in the Ozark foothills. After trying her hand at waitressing, tele-marketing, bingo ball pulling, and lawyering, Phillips left active law practice and returned home to author four books and multiple feature screenplays. She created the sub-genre known as Okie Noir, a scion of southern goth and… Read more »
Haley Rains
Haley Rains is an enrolled member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma. She was born and raised in Billings, Montana. She has worked as a professional photographer for over 14 years. She began her career as a concert photographer at the age of 15. Her portfolio includes bands such as Nine Inch Nails, Buckcherry,… Read more »
Brad Munoa
Brad Munoa is a writer, director, and producer for the Pechanga Creative Studios in Temecula, CA. He studied film production at the University of Southern California and graduated in 2005. Since then he has worked in many capacities creating content for the Pechanga Tribal Government and commercials for Pechanga Resort Casino. In 2017 Brad was… Read more »
Geoffrey Kie
Geoffrey Kie (he, him, his, they), is Big Corn Clan, and Little Turquoise Clan from the Pueblo of Laguna. Geoff has received his Bachelors of Science in Applied Indigenous Studies with a minor in Journalism from Northern Arizona University. He completed his Master’s with Distinction in Communication with an emphasis in Documentary Studies at NAU… Read more »
Matt Kappele
Born and raised in Oklahoma, Matt Kappele is a proud member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Matt’s love for film began at a young age when he would spend summers with his Choctaw grandmother, who introduced him to many of his favorite films, such as Godzilla, King Kong, and Jurassic Park, to name a… Read more »
Geneva Horse Chief
From an early age, four or five, I was set on becoming a storyteller, a painter, an actress, a journalist, a writer, a reporter, anything I could do to help people to be informed and knowledgeable about underrepresented groups and issues. The problems associated with lack of awareness are all too familiar to me as… Read more »
Ramona Emerson
Ramona Emerson is a Diné writer and filmmaker originally from Tohatchi, New Mexico. She received her degree in Media Arts in 1997 from the University of New Mexico and her MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction) in 2015 from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She has worked as a professional videographer, writer, and editor for… Read more »
Julia Leatham
Julia (Cherokee Nation) is a writer from Los Angeles, California. She discovered passion for writing and performance art through spoken word poetry and drag. After graduating from Yale in May with a degree in Film and Media Studies, she workshopped a feature script in the inaugural Native American Media Alliance writing seminar. While at Yale,… Read more »