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Youth Education Advocate for the Central Valley at Save California Salmon. She has a BA in Linguistics from UC Davis and Masters in Education, Instruction and Curriculum Design, from the University of San Diego. Araceli is Hñähñu and Wixárika, and an advocate for culturally relevant pedagogy in public education and immigration rights.

Advocacy and Water Protection in Native California

Ph.D. Candidate at UC Santa Cruz and a member of Quartz Valley Indian Reservation. Darcey began working with Save California Salmon during the summer of 2020, helping to organize action alerts and advocate for educational and water policy reform in California. As our Education Coordinator, she helped to develop the Water Protection in Native California Curriculum and hosted workshops, training, and outreach connected to the curriculum. Darcey has also served as a Science Mentor to high school students in Santa Cruz County and a Teaching Assistant and Instructor at UC Santa Cruz.

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The current Director of Dishgamu Humboldt Community Land Trust. She is of mixed European and Ashkenazi heritage, and a settler in California. Carrie has a Bachelors Degree from Suffolk University, Boston, and a Master of Arts in Social Sciences in Environment & Community from Cal Poly Humboldt . She is a co-founder and steering committee member of the Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab & Traditional Ecological Knowledges Institute. Carrie works toward community healing by building relationships with people and the more-than-human world. This is what drove her to work on her master’s thesis, “Working towards land return in Goukdi’n: a history of genocide and a future of healing.” Carrie's work will always take a holistic approach to healing - one that doesn't stop at land return, but that continuously works on creating a web of support for all beings in a community. She looks forward to continuing to work towards the return of ancestral lands to Tribes by obtaining a law degree in the near future. 

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Charley is of the Hupa, Yurok and Karuk people. He credits his connection to culture, community and the environment to his academic success. Charley has a Bachelor's in Native American Studies and a Master's in Social Sciences from Humboldt State University, where he studied the cultural importance of Spring Chinook salmon to Klamath and Trinity River Indigenous people. Charley hopes to inspire youth and communities through culturally relevant curriculum in public schools.

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A proud enrolled member of the Ninilchik Village Tribe and of Dena’ina, Sugpiaq, Russian, Norwegian, and Danish descent. Born and raised in traditional Dena’ina territory, Cody grew up in Anchorage Alaska, and on the Kenai Peninsula. Cody attended school Cal Poly Humboldt double majoring in Marine Biology and Native American Studies with a focus on Environment and Natural Resources. His professional interests are in marine cultural resources and traditional marine foods of the Pacific Northwest and Alaska Indigenous peoples. Cody is a member of the steering committee and a co-founder of Rou Dalagurr, Cal Poly Humboldt’s Food Sovereignty lab, and TEK Institute. Currently, Cody is an Indigenous STEAM curriculum developer for the Knik Tribe of Alaska. Studying to be a culture bearer for his tribe Cody hopes to revive, preserve, and promote his People’s unique culture, traditions, and values and is dedicated to issues facing Indigenous people worldwide.

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Josh Norris is the Director of the Klamath Promise Neighborhoods through the Yurok Tribe on the North Coast of California. He has spent most of his career as a high school English and Social Science teacher, a community Organizer and writing/developing curriculum. Josh is raising three kids in the town of

Klamath near his village of origin.

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Kaitlin Reed (Yurok/Hupa/Oneida) is an Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt. Her research is focused on tribal land and water rights, extractive capitalism, and settler colonial political economies. She is currently working on her book entitled From Gold Rush to Green Rush: The Ecology of Settler Colonialism in Northern California. This book connects the historical and ecological dots between the Gold Rush and the Green Rush, focusing on capitalistic resource extraction and violence against indigenous lands and bodies. Kaitlin obtained her B.A. degree in Geography at Vassar College and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Native American Studies at the University of California, Davis. In 2018, she was awarded the Charles Eastman Fellowship of Native American Studies at Dartmouth College. Dr. Reed is an enrolled member of the Yurok Tribe in Northwestern California. In her free time, she likes to play video games, watch reality television, and spend time with her partner, Michael, and her cat, Fitzherbert.

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Wyandot~ Anishinaabe), Administrative Assistant, Humboldt State University – Arcata, CA, B.A. Social Sciences Teacher Preparation, Minor Native American Studies, Minor American Indian Education, Multiple Subjects/Single Subject Teaching Credential 2005.

I graduated from California Polytechnic Humboldt University Teacher Credential Program and the Indian Teacher and Educational Personnel Program. My first teaching position included participating in creating the American Indian Academy Charter High School located at McKinleyville High school. I taught NAS/Social Sciences, independent study, and was the teacher of record for Yurok Language, for aawok Aileen Figueroa and aawok Kathleen Vigil. In addition to secondary grades, I taught 5th/6th, and then K-3 at the Weitchpec Elementary Yurok Magnet Program, the first part-time Native Language Immersion in a CA public school.

As a curriculum/education specialist, I participated in the development of Native curriculum aligned with state standards for KTJUSD (K-3) and Save CA Salmon. The SCS Water Advocacy curriculum (9-12th) was recognized by UNESCO Green Citizens and I also was part of the curriculum team for the recently released Traditional Ecological Knowledge curriculum (6-8th) in partnership with Humboldt State University CalPoly Native American Studies department. 

Curriculum coaching for educators, Native STEAM/TEK presentations for all ages and integrating Native language into daily life. I’m currently working for the Northern CA Tribal Court Coalition, the Tribal Marine Collaborative, and most of all, blessed to be mom for two awesome boys, K’nek’nek’ (14) and Repoy (12).

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Northern California Youth Education Advocate for Save California Salmon. They are Hoopa/Yurok and they live in the Hoopa Valley Reservation. Michaela is currently majoring in Studio Art at College of the Redwoods and hopes to teach and bring the creativity out of others.

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Regina Chichizola is the Executive Director of Save California’s Salmon, a Water Policy Analyst for the Pacific Coast Federation of Fisheries Associations and the 2017 winner of the Anthony Grassroots Prize. Regina has lived on the Klamath River for twenty years, and is a long-term advocate for tribal water rights, clean water, wild salmon, prescribed fire, and environmental justice.

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Advocacy and Water Protection in Native California

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Caitlin McMorris is Save California Salmon's Design Lead as well as a freelance illustrator. She creates all of our day to day social media posts and print media. She also maintains and builds out our website, as well as big event pages like the Northern California Landback Symposium landing pages. Caitlin formats our bi-annual printed newsletter, our curricula, and the monthly digital newsletter sent to our community.

Apart from SCS work, Caitlin does illustration and portrait commissions, logo design, book cover design, children's book illustration, package design, and print sales at art festivals. She is a jack of all trades in the art world, but focuses mostly on charcoal, digital painting, and other dry mediums.

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Jackie Fawn is a Yurok/Washoe/Filipina artist who currently resides in Akwesasne, Mohawk territory with her husband, Kahontase. Jackie uses her art to uplift Indigenous resiliency and healing, as well as environmental and social movements. Self-taught, Jackie has been a working graphic artist since 2015. During this time, their work has been featured in galleries and museums throughout the U.S., two galas in California, and have published works which include cover pages and a short graphic novel.

In 2021, Jackie was granted NDN Collective’s Radical Imagination grant that helped open the doors to Fishbear Studios and fund “Colors of the Land”, a coloring activity book that collects stories of Indigenous resistance and social issues. Jackie’s illustrations have been part of educational resources and can be downloaded as coloring pages on her studio. 

With the birth of her baby in 2021, Jackie’s recent art has been heavily inspired by the new aspect of parenthood as it is her forever reminder of the importance of fighting for a brighter future for the next generations.

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Social Media Content Creator Valentina is a graduate of Cal Poly Humboldt 2021 and majored in Environmental Studies and Journalism. When she isn't video editing or behind the camera she'll be behind a sci-fi novel or tending to her garden. She is also the executive producer of a student docu-series, Homeless in Humboldt on Youtube.