Enjoy this interview featuring James Calabaza! He is a CH '09 & '10alum.

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Born and raised in New Mexico, James comes with direct experience working with Tribes and understanding the traditional knowledge as it pertains to their unique values. After working with the government sector, James realized his heart belongs to the nonprofit world.

As TWP’s Indigenous Lands Program Director, James provides much needed insight and experience on working with Tribal governments that uphold traditional ethics of governance and leadership. His deep rooted experiences and cultural values strengthens our program by building trust with Tribes, promoting traditional landscape conservation values and over-seeing the development of community-based projects.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-calabaza-5483641a2/

Check out Trees, Water & People

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College Horizons is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to increasing the numer of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students succeeding in college and graduate programs. Since 1998, we have served over 3,300 Native students on their path to higher ed through our admissions and financial aid workshops.

Be sure to follow College Horizons!

CH Website: https://collegehorizons.org/

2023 Program Flyer: http://bit.ly/3DU10Ph

Instagram: @CollegeHorizons

Facebook: College Horizons

Twitter: @CollegeHorizons

Donate to College Horizons, Inc.: https://collegehorizons.org/give/

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Hosted by Kendall Harvey (Diné / CH '13). Music by Sam Bader (Kanaka Maoli / CH '13). Cover art by Jared Yazzie (Diné / CH '05 & '06).

Enjoy this interview featuring Kalina Newmark! She is a GH '12 and '16 alum.

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Kalina Newmark is Shúhtagot’ı̨nę Dene and Métis from the Tulita Dene First Nation in the Northwest Territories, Canada. She received her BA from Dartmouth College in 2011 and her MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business in 2019. Kalina currently lives in Seattle, WA and is a Brand Manager on the Starbucks at-home coffee brand.

Facebook: @Kalina.Newmark

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kalinanewmark/

Check out Strong People, Strong Communities.

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College Horizons is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to increasing the numer of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students succeeding in college and graduate programs. Since 1998, we have served over 3,300 Native students on their path to higher ed through our admissions and financial aid workshops.

Be sure to follow College Horizons!

CH Website: https://collegehorizons.org/

2023 Program Flyer: http://bit.ly/3DU10Ph

Instagram: @CollegeHorizons

Facebook: College Horizons

Twitter: @CollegeHorizons

Donate to College Horizons, Inc.: https://collegehorizons.org/give/

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Hosted by Kendall Harvey (Diné / CH '13). Music by Sam Bader (Kanaka Maoli / CH '13). Cover art by Jared Yazzie (Diné / CH '05 & '06).

Enjoy this interview featuring Ashton Pemapanik Dunkley! She is a CH '13 alum.

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Ashton Pemapanik Dunkley is a Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape and Jamaican model and Ph.D. candidate from the University of Minnesota's American Studies Department. She graduated from Temple University in 2019 as the institution's first-ever two-time scholar-athlete of the year & with a double major in History and Anthropology/Minor in Italian. While she is currently living in Minneapolis or more accurately, Mni Sota Makoce (homelands of the Dakota people), she was born and raised on her own ancestral homelands, Lenapehoking, the land of the Lenape. Her people are from the Nanticoke and Lenape nations of so-called Delaware and New Jersey & the island of Jamaica. Her dissertation research aims to celebrate these connections by using the theories of Critical Indigenous Studies and Critical Black Studies, particularly Black and Indigenous Feminisms, to explore the histories Black and Nanticoke-Lenape peoples from the tidewaters of the Delaware Bay. She considers herself an Afro-Indigenous Feminist, often thinking about the intimate and embodied connections between Black, Native, and Black-Native peoples (especially her grandmothers) as well as their connections to the land, water, and more-than-human relatives.

Instagram: @pemapanik

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College Horizons is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to increasing the numer of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students succeeding in college and graduate programs. Since 1998, we have served over 3,300 Native students on their path to higher ed through our admissions and financial aid workshops.

Be sure to follow College Horizons!

CH Website: https://collegehorizons.org/

2023 Program Flyer: http://bit.ly/3DU10Ph

Instagram: @CollegeHorizons

Facebook: College Horizons

Twitter: @CollegeHorizons

Donate to College Horizons, Inc.: https://collegehorizons.org/give/

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Hosted by Kendall Harvey (Diné / CH '13). Music by Sam Bader (Kanaka Maoli / CH '13). Cover art by Jared Yazzie (Diné / CH '05 & '06).

Enjoy this interview featuring Sam Alika Bautista Bader! He is a CH '13 and GH '19 alum.

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Sam Alika Bautista Bader is a Kanaka Maoli educator and musician. He grew up in Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi in a multiethnic household of public servants, community organizers, and entertainers and attended Kamehameha Schools Hawai’i Campus. After attending College Horizons, he went on to pursue a Bachelor of Arts from Lawrence University, a small liberal arts college and music conservatory located in Appleton, Wisconsin. He majored in anthropology, minored in ethnic studies, and took extensive coursework in jazz, improvisation, and world music. He worked full-time in the Lawrence University admissions office for a year before getting the opportunity to be hired by Navajo Preparatory School, a tribally-controlled college preparatory and International Baccalaureate World school located in Farmington, New Mexico. He currently serves as Navajo Prep’s College and Alumni Success Coach. He also is completing a Master of Eduction in Educational Leadership and Policy remotely through Boston College. Over the years, Sam has developed a musical repertoire that includes classical, jazz, reggae, R&B, funk, neo-soul, and traditional and contemporary Hawaiian music. He has performed and taught in front of a wide range of private and public audiences throughout Hawaiʻi, the Midwest, and the Southwest. 

Instagram: @samalikamusic

LinkedIn: Sam Bader

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College Horizons is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to increasing the number of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students succeeding in college and graduate programs. Since 1998, we have served over 3,300 Native students on their path to higher ed through our admissions and financial aid workshops.

Be sure to follow College Horizons!

CH Website: https://collegehorizons.org/

2023 Program Flyer: http://bit.ly/3DU10Ph

Instagram: @CollegeHorizons

Facebook: College Horizons

Twitter: @CollegeHorizons

Donate to College Horizons, Inc.: https://collegehorizons.org/give/

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Hosted by Kendall Harvey (Diné / CH '13). Music by Sam Bader (Kanaka Maoli / CH '13). Cover art by Jared Yazzie (Diné / CH '05 & '06).

Enjoy this interview featuring Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio! She is a CH '06 and ’07 alum.

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Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is a Kanaka Maoli wahine artist/ activist / scholar born and raised in Pālolo Valley to parents Jonathan and Mary Osorio. Heoli earned her PhD in English (Hawaiian literature) in 2018 from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Currently, Heoli is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian Politics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Heoli is a three-time national poetry champion, poetry mentor and a published author. She is a proud past Kaiāpuni student, Ford fellow, and a graduate of Kamehameha, Stanford University (BA) and New York University (MA). Her book Remembering our Intimacies: Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea is forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press in Fall 2021. 

Twitter: @JamaicaOsorio

Instagram: @JamaicaOsorio

Website: https://jamaicaosorio.wordpress.com/ 

Upcoming Book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/remembering-our-intimacies

PBS Documentary “This Is The Way We Rise”: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/jamaica-heolimeleikalani-osorio-this-is-the-way-we-rise/15821/ 

UH Indigenous Politics Program: https://uhip.politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/jamaica-heolimeleikalani-osorio/ 

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College Horizons is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to increasing the number of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students succeeding in college and graduate programs. Since 1998, we have served over 3,300 Native students on their path to higher ed through our admissions and financial aid workshops.

Be sure to follow College Horizons!

CH Website: https://collegehorizons.org/

Instagram: @CollegeHorizons

Facebook: College Horizons

Twitter: @CollegeHorizons

Donate to College Horizons, Inc.: https://collegehorizons.org/give/

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Hosted by Kendall Harvey (Diné / CH '13). Music by Sam Bader (Kanaka Maoli / CH '13). Cover art by Jared Yazzie (Diné / CH '05 & '06).

Enjoy this interview featuring Liz Reese! She is a CH '06, GH '10 and '12 alum.

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Elizabeth A. Reese, Yunpoví (Tewa: Willow Flower) is an Assistant Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. She teaches and writes about American Indian tribal law, federal Indian law, and constitutional law—specifically the intersection of identity, race, citizenship, and government structure. Her scholarship examines the way government structures, citizen identity, and the history that is taught in schools, can impact the rights and powers of oppressed racial minorities within American law. Before becoming a law professor, Professor Reese spent time working in all three branches of the federal government. Professor Reese worked at the National Congress of American Indians where she supported tribal governments across the country as they implemented expanded criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians under the 2013 Violence Against Women Act. Reese began her legal career as a civil rights litigator at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund where she led a desegregation case in one of the largest school districts in Florida and worked on the challenge to Alabama’s Voter ID law. She is tribally enrolled at Nambe Pueblo.

Twitter: @Yunpovi

Instagram: @Yunpovi

Stanford Directory: https://law.stanford.edu/directory/elizabeth-reese/

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College Horizons is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to increasing the number of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students succeeding in college and graduate programs. Since 1998, we have served over 3,300 Native students on their path to higher ed through our admissions and financial aid workshops.

Be sure to follow College Horizons!

CH Website: https://collegehorizons.org/

Instagram: @CollegeHorizons

Facebook: College Horizons

Twitter: @CollegeHorizons

Donate to College Horizons, Inc.: https://collegehorizons.org/give/

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Hosted by Kendall Harvey (Diné / CH '13). Music by Sam Bader (Kanaka Maoli / CH '13). Cover art by Jared Yazzie (Diné / CH '05 & '06).

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Aaron Yazzie, Diné, is Ashįįhí (Salt Clan) and born for Todích'íi'nii (Bitter Water Clan). He is a Mechanical Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California where he designs mechanical systems for NASA’s robotic space research missions. His most extensive contributions have been for missions to the planet Mars.

Aaron was born in Tuba City, Arizona on the Navajo Nation, and was raised in Holbrook, Arizona. He attended Stanford University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2008.

Aaron is a Sequoyah Fellow and professional member of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES). In 2016 Yazzie was honored by the Navajo Nation Council for “serving as an inspiration to Diné youth and citizens”, and in 2019 received the NASA JPL Bruce Murray Award “for outstanding and consistent dedication in promoting inclusion and excitement in science and education especially among Indigenous Communities.”

Instagram: @YazzieSees

Twitter: @YazzieSays

Aaron Yazzie's website: https://www.aaronyazzie.com/

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College Horizons is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to increasing the number of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students succeeding in college and graduate programs. Since 1998, we have served over 3,300 Native students on their path to higher ed through our admissions and financial aid workshops.

Be sure to follow College Horizons!

CH Website: https://collegehorizons.org/

Instagram: @CollegeHorizons

Facebook: College Horizons

Twitter: @CollegeHorizons

Donate to College Horizons, Inc.: https://collegehorizons.org/give/

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Hosted by Kendall Harvey (Diné / CH '13). Music by Sam Bader (Kanaka Maoli / CH '13). Cover art by Jared Yazzie (Diné / CH '05 & '06).

Enjoy this interview featuring Julia Bernal! She is a CH '08 alum.

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Julia Bernal is a tribal member from the Pueblo of Sandia and also from the Yuchi nation in Oklahoma. She is currently a dual-degree student at UNM in Water Resources and Community and Regional Planning. She is the current Alliance Director for Pueblo Action Alliance, a grassroots organization that focuses on the environmental, social and racial issues impacting Indigenous communities in the Southwest. Julia has contributed her analysis on environmental issues with her expertise on New Mexico water and environmental policies and organization. Particularly, her focus has remained on the oil and gas industry and how it’s adverse impacts affect the environment, the water and the people. She advocates for the decolonization of water policy and stolen water resources. She has helped PAA build campaigns against carbon pricing, fracking, Land Back and recently #WaterBack.

Instagram: @JuliaFayBernal

Twitter: @JuliaFayBernal

Pueblo Action Alliance website: https://www.puebloactionalliance.org/

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College Horizons is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to increasing the number of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students succeeding in college and graduate programs. Since 1998, we have served over 3,300 Native students on their path to higher ed through our admissions and financial aid workshops.

Be sure to follow College Horizons!

CH Website: https://collegehorizons.org/

Instagram: @CollegeHorizons

Facebook: College Horizons

Twitter: @CollegeHorizons

Donate to College Horizons, Inc.: https://collegehorizons.org/give/

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Hosted by Kendall Harvey (Diné / CH '13). Music by Sam Bader (Kanaka Maoli / CH '13). Cover art by Jared Yazzie (Diné / CH '05 & '06).