Villegas-Frazier provides strategic leadership to identify opportunities for enhancing the persistence, achievement and college graduation rates for Native American students.ĭay 3: Keynote: Heather Hostler “Working Together for a Common Goal: Tribal TANF and Indian Legal Services” She brings with her more than 20 years of experience in Native American outreach and retention services and programs. She previously worked for a decade in outreach programs on campus, returned to become the first director of Strategic Native American Retention Initiative in Student Affairs. Michelle Villegas-Frazier, Pomo, Pinoleville, currently serves as director of Strategic Native American Retention Initiatives/Student Affairs at the University of California, Davis. Our youth are our future! Our hope is that this keynote will inspire positive change, culture shifts and community building! Michelle Villegas-Frazier will discuss more about the center, highlighting the resources they provide to enhance student success, the culturally relevant activities, and its support network. The Native American Academic Student Success Center (NAASSC) focuses on creating a sense of belonging for Native American students in a culturally appropriate way. Join us to learn more about the Native American Academic Student Success Center, also known as the Native Nest! Given the rich diversity of our Indigenous community, we strive to make UC Davis a place where all identities are celebrated, honoring students’ achievements and supporting their personal and academic journeys. She is currently pursuing a doctoral degree at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks in Indigenous Studies with a focus on Indigenous Food Systems Revitalization.ĭay 2 Keynote: Michelle Villegas-Frazier “A Sneak Peek into the UC Davis Native Nest!” Her internationally acclaimed presentations are conveyed through the medium of poetry, music and/or speech. She blends undergraduate studies in human ecology at Stanford University, graduate work in Native American Pedagogy at the University of New Mexico, and the Indigenous worldview she grew up with to inform her perspectives and solutions. Her messages focus on Indigenous rights, supporting youth, traditional land stewardship practices and healing inter-generational and inter-cultural trauma. Lyla June Johnston is an Indigenous public speaker, artist, scholar and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages from Taos, New Mexico. This talk will discuss some of these traditions with the overall message that most of the answers to our problems are right here in our languages, cultures and traditions. This included Creation stories, linguistic terms, ceremonies, peacemaking processes, traditional foods/medicines, sports and kinship roles. Throughout Turtle Island, many ancestors from many different Indigenous Nations had refined mechanisms for maintaining health, happiness and unity in our communities. Learn more about Tanaya Winder by watching these videos: Igniting Healing: Tanaya Winder at TEDxABQ and Poet Tanaya Winder Performs “Stone Mother”.ĭay 1 Evening Keynote: Lyla June Johnston “Traditional Community Care Strategies” Tanaya believes everyone has a gift they’ve been placed on this earth to share. She also co-founded Sing Our Rivers Red’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) earring exhibit.
She is the director of the University of Colorado Boulder’s Upward Bound program during her 10 years there she has served hundreds of Indigenous youth. She blends storytelling, singing, and spoken word to teach about different expressions of love (self love, intimate love, social love, community love, and universal love). Tanaya’s performances and talks emphasize the importance of “heartwork”-the life path one is meant to follow by using one’s gifts and passions. Her heritage also includes African American. Tanaya Winder, M.F.A., is an author, singer, songwriter, poet, motivational speaker and educator who comes from an intertribal lineage of Southern Ute, Pyramid Lake Paiute, Diné and Duckwater Shoshone Nations where she is an enrolled citizen.
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