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January 24, 2025

Press Release, Anadarko Daily News, Oklahoma

The Anadarko Daily News – January 24, 2025

2025 Champions for Change press release uplifted in full (print edition, confirmed by publisher).

Champions for Change, Fellows

January 24, 2025

Article, Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology, California

Young leaders are united by a desire to improve their communities

The Center for Native American Youth (CNAY) has announced that in response to the ongoing wildfire crisis in Los Angeles and Southern California, which is home to the largest urban Native population in the U.S., CNAY is offering five $1,000 micro-grants to Native youth (ages 18-24) who want to help rebuild their community.

Champions for Change, Democracy is Indigenous, Fellows, Youth

January 24, 2025

Interview / Podcast / Radio, Native America Calling

Native youth building the foundation for future leadership

A Kanaka Maoli student at Yale is working on an AI tool to help clear criminal records of fellow Native Hawaiians. A Kiowa writer and artist is developing creative pathways to address Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives. And a Tohono O’odham knowledge protector is archiving recordings and pictures from her tribe. Those are among this year’s young people selected as Champions for Change by the Center for Native American Youth. We’ll hear from them and get their stories of inspiration.

Champions for Change, Fellows

January 18, 2025

Article / Interview, The Norman Transcript, Oklahoma

OU student selected for Native youth leadership initiative

Lily Painter, a Kiowa and Winnebago writer, poet, advocate and storyteller, was selected for the Center for Native American Youth’s Champions for Change program.

“ I think finding a way to connect on all fronts of a movement is going to be the most helpful,” she said. “ I think the reason I also wanted to join and why I’ve been wanting to join this cohort… It’s the holistic nature of what Champions for Change is. It’s not people coming together based on just one area of advocacy.”

Champions for Change, Fellows, Kiowa, Winnebago

January 15, 2025

Article, University of Michigan Medical School, Michigan

HILS PhD student Katie Lynch named CNAY 2025 Champion for Change

Katie was among five indigenous youth leaders across the country who are “leading impactful change within their communities.”

Champions for Change, Fellows, Citizen Potawatomi Nation

January 9, 2025

Article / Interview, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wisconsin

Menominee woman visits White House to discuss epidemic of violence against her people

[McKaylin] Peters worked with like-minded young women from around the country via Zoom and then met with them in person at the end of the program in California. She also created a 10-minute mini-documentary highlighting the epidemic of violence from a local level on the Menominee Reservation and on a national level.

Remembering Our Sisters, Fellows, Menominee Indian Tribe

December 30, 2024

Article / Interview, Confederated Umatilla Journal, New York, Oregon

Wildbill wraps up Remembering Our Sisters fellowship

"I believe the Remembering Our Sisters project specifically helped me in my goals in my interests of law and policy in Indian Country through learning how to creatively and strategically raise awareness regarding MMIW movements and other advocacy issues."

Remembering Our Sisters, Fellows, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation

December 23, 2024

Interview / Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, Montana

Apsáalooke artist creates mini-magazine Remembering Our Relatives

24-year-old MarLynn Cloud, Apsáalooke name Stands in His Light, is a Billings-based community and education advocate and recent fellow with the D.C. policy organization the Center for Native American Youth.

Remembering Our Sisters, Fellows, Apsáalooke