The Center for Native American Youth at The Aspen Institute is proud to welcome former U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell to its Board of Advisors. Jewell has been a longtime advocate for tribes and Native American youth. During the Obama Administration, she was instrumental in supporting the President’s cross-sector Generation Indigenous initiative to […]
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On January 29, Major League Baseball’s Cleveland franchise announced plans to retire its divisive Chief Wahoo mascot from the team’s uniforms in 2019. The Center for Native American Youth at The Aspen Institute (CNAY) recognizes that the misrepresentation of Native peoples through racist imagery, team names and mascots has been a longtime priority for Native […]
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This Giving Tuesday, support the next generation of young Native leaders with a donation to the Center for Native American Youth. Rory Taylor (Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma) became a CNAY Champion for Change in 2015. As a first-year student at Pomona College, Rory founded and directed IndigeNATION, a peer mentoring program that provided college readiness training, […]
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The Center for Native American Youth seeks an entrepreneurial, well-organized, and driven Program Manager to oversee and grow our youth engagement strategy, evaluation measures, and program budget. This team member will manage the Champions for Change Native youth leadership program, lead CNAY’s Technical Assistance project to promote local youth recognition efforts, and be significantly responsible for direct […]
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