Tia Kennedy is an Indigenous rights activist in Canada. Growing up, she struggled to access Indigenous culture and practices. As…
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Albert Bender is a writer, activist and attorney of Cherokee descent. Currently based in Tennessee, he has long been an…
Vera Hall is a quilter and seamstress based in Baltimore and for decades has crafted a wide array of items.…
Alua Arthur is what is called a "death doula," one who helps people at the end of their lives. As…
Heather McTeer Toney spent three years leading the Environmental Protection Agency for the southeastern United States. She now continues her…
As wildfires continue to rage in the western United States, we look at how these increasingly common events are affecting…
As long as he can remember, author Viet Thanh Nguyen has been interested in how stories about his home country…
Roxane Gay has used writing as a means to untangle and communicate her own trauma since childhood. Now a successful…
Kara Jackson is known for being the 2019-2020 National Youth Poet Laureate from Oak Park, Illinois. But her art is…
Since childhood, Jess T. Dugan has recognized the power of photography in documenting the world around them. As they grew…
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