CNAY’s Josie Raphaelito Shares Her Experience as an LGBTQ2S & Public Health Advocate

Josie Raphaelito, MPH, is a passionate advocate for tribal public health. She has six years of experience building relationships with Tribal Nations and citizens through community engagement and providing tools to elevate local perspectives of strengths and challenges into national discussions for change in Washington, DC. Josie currently serves as an Advisory Board Member for […]

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Growing Into Wowachinyepi Lakota Youth Leaders

Meet the five Lakota teens traveling to Washington, DC as part of the Cheyenne River Youth Project’s Growing Into Wowachinyepi youth leadership program. Claudia Iron Hawk is 18 years old and a student at Cheyenne Eagle Butte High School. Her initiative focuses on Lakota language and culture revitalization. To strengthen her ties to her culture and language, Claudia […]

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Mariah Gladstone’s Indigikitchen on Toasted Sister Podcast

When Champion for Change Mariah Gladstone was a young girl, she had a dream about cookies and her mom helped bring them to real life. She still dreams about food and turns them into recipes, only now, she produces her own cooking show called Indigikitchen. In this episode of Toasted Sister, a podcast about Native American foods, Mariah talks […]

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