Current Graduate Students of the NAS Master of Arts Program 

From: Iowa City, Iowa

Non-Native white settler

Education: My community - family, chosen family, organizers, and comrades. Bachelor of Arts in both Anti-Racism Studies and Spanish from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Associates of Arts in Native American Studies at Central Wyoming College. 

Research Interests: Taylor spent the past three years in Lander, WY, which is a bordertown to the Wind River Reservation, where she worked with Wind River Pride (a multi-generational, mutli-racial 2SLGBTQIA+ community group) and Wyoming 4 Palestine. Taylor spends their summers in Tuscon, AZ working with a humanitarian aid group at the border called No More Deaths/No Más Muertes and she has spent time in the West Bank, Palestine engaging in international solidarity efforts with Palestinian agriculture workers. Taylor centers Black and Indigenous liberation as a means for collective liberation and hopes to do their research in settler cognitive dissonance in the various bordertowns she has lived and worked in. 

From: ancestral home of the Chumash, Awha'y (Ojai)

Tribal Affiliation: Chichimec and Tlahuica

Education: Bachelors in Ethnic Studies and Political Science from California State University Channel Islands, Spring 2022 graduate.

Research: radically fueled by ancestors and community, she pursues higher education with research interests relating to the significant impact Indigenous ancestral traditions, knowledge, and ceremony contribute to survival and resilience of Native people.