August 19-20, 2019 | Sioux City, Iowa – Native Organizers Alliance (NOA) partnered with CNAY to send four youth leaders to the Native American Presidential Forum in Iowa. MBF Fellow Jarrette Werk, and YAB members Nancy Deere-Turney, Isabel Coronado, and Rory Wheeler met in Sioux City to volunteer at the Forum. Eleven Presidential candidates took […]
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CNAY Staff asked Darby Raymond-Overstreet (Diné) to share her work and experience as a young, LGBTQ2S artist. Darby was selected by CNAY as the winner of the Creative Native contest and has her artwork featured on the cover of the 2018 State of Native Youth Report. Check out more of Darby’s artwork in her online portfolio here. […]
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The Center for Native American Youth, in partnership with Columbia University’s Summer Immersion Program for High School Students, selected Native high school students for full-tuition, residential scholarship to attend a 3-week pre-college program during summer 2019 in New York City. This year, CNAY worked with Columbia to identify two Native youth who are making an […]
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March 19th, 2019, Washington D.C. — Center for Native American Youth (CNAY)Youth Advisory Board members Nancy Deere-Turney, Mikah Carlos, Rory Wheeler, and Autumn Adams joined Casey Family Programs for their semi-annual tribal leaders extensive working session. The tribal leaders and youth participants engaged in panels, strategy sessions, and working groups centered around Casey Family Programs’ 2020: Building Communities of Hope, which is a nationwide […]
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