I’m Grace, I work as a program coordinator for the City of Oakland Parks and Rec Department. I love art, I teach ceramics and I also really enjoy printmaking when I have the time!

I am a Bay Mi Wok Ohlone tribal member. My great great grandmother was forced into being housed in the Mission San Jose.

Mariah is twenty three years old. she loves to listen to music, do makeup, and play video games. She lives and work in Fremont CA.

I’m a Diné artist, activist, educator and mom. I was born on my ancestral homelands of New Mexico but raised here in the Bay Area on Coast Miwok lands.

Priscilla enjoys beading, sewing, and crafting.

I'm Puerto Rican. I work for Sogorea Te Land Trust. I was born and raised in Oakland, CA and enjoy sewing.

Angel C. Fabian, MD MNA (he/she/they) in ceremonial spaces known as Tlahuizpapalotl (Butterfly of Light) is the current Executive Director of BAAITS. They are a person in recovery, an immigrant, a curanderx, Two-Spirit/Queer, Ben'Zaa (Zapotecx) manager/administrator, clinician and cultural bearer. For the past 20 years, connected to their journey in recovery, Angel has been able to reconnect and become an active member of their indigenous communities (Ben’Zaa (Zapotec) and Mexica).

Crisantema is an auntie, amiga, and cultural shifter. a proud cuir xicana, her lineage is deeply rooted in oaxaca, nahua/zapoteca land. her organizing lineage cultivates intergenerational movements for liberation. krizaflor finds joy in exploring birth charts, tending to her garden, and creating nourishing meals to share with loved ones.

I am a Mother and Grandmother, raised in my traditional territory. I am descended from “Ohlone,Bay Miwok, Delta Yokut, Patwin and Plains Miwok people. I have always fought for our ancestors and Sacred Sites and bringing visibility to our People

Born and raised in her traditional territory in the East Bay, in the village of Huchiun, Deja is the Chochenyo language carrier for her Tribe the Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation. She enjoys bringing her children to the land to connect with soil and life around them, seed save and learn about traditional plant use.

Nicole is Shasta and Karuk, born and raised in Wiyot territory. She joins Sogorea Te’ after two decades in government finance and project management, and is passionate about returning land to Indigenous hands. She enjoys gardening with her family, spending time in the Redwoods and helping to run a performing arts troupe in Humboldt County.

I'm the founder of an Indigenous women led organization, Alliance for Felix Cove, who work to rematriate Támal-ko (Coast Miwok) ancestral homelands. I dream to answer our ancestor calls.

Lucio is a reconnecting indigenous person of Purepecha lineage, woring as a land team member at Sogorea te. Lucio loves learning about other cultures and their foods.

I’m Bay Miwok Ohlone. My great Grandmother was raised by the nuns at Mission San Jose. I am a visual artist with an MFA from California College of the arts and Crafts.

I am a traditional dancer, a mother and I love to sew and make traditional skirts or ribbon shirts for my son and community members when needed.

Descendant of Northern Sierra Miwok Indians and Bay Area resident. I work for UCB to facilitate repatriations of museum collections to Tribes. I believe in and am humbled by the important healing, culture knowledge sharing and community growth that comes with the return of ancestors and belongings to Tribes.

I am a Q’anjob’al Maya woman who works at Sogorea Te’ Land Trust and supports the movement of rematriation. Outside of work, I work the on going revitalization of the Q’anjob’al Maya language for folks born in the diaspora and work alongside organizers in Guatemala to bring in revolutionary politics for a better society in the country of Guatemala.

Victoria is born and raised the village of Huchiun & feels a huge responsibility to uplift the history of these lands through storytelling in various mediums. Victoria has lineages from central Mexico and Yoe'me peoples and Im first gen in this fakkke country. They are a land tender and protector.

Michelle is a descendent of the Ohlone. Her grandmother is Ruth Orta, daughter of Trina Marine Ruano.

Robin has been involved with her Indigenous heritage her all whole life. She spent a lot of time with her Indigenous grandmother. For almost 20 years she has worked as a Native American monitor at archeological dig sites, protecting the sacredness of her ancestors.

Ruth Orta is a Jalquin/Saclan Ohlone/Bay Miwok elder.  Her living family spans five generations:  Ruth is a mother of seven, grandmother of 17, great grandmother of 38 and and great, great grandmother of 26!    

She is a culture keeper, storyteller and beloved  Matriarch.

My great grandma was raised by the nuns in Mission San Jose. I was raised by all the strong woman in our family. I am really interested in native plants and the many ways they are used for food, fibers and medicine.

Cerise Palmanteer is a cultural artist, basket weaver, beader and seamster of Yakama and Colville descent. Interested in indigenous sovereignty and land work.

Tiśina is a mixed California Indigenous woman. She is the granddaughter of Ralph and Julia F. Parker, daughter of Louis and Patricia Parker. Her people are Yosemite Southern Sierra Miwuk/Kutzadika’a Mono Lake Paiute from her Grandfather’s lineage and Kashia Pomo/Coast Miwuk from her Grandmother’s lineage. Tiśina's grandparents are survivors of the Indian Boarding school system.

Parker Grace Puls is a Diné artist and journalist whose practice is based in photographic and fiber mediums. Last spring, she graduated with honors from Parsons School of Design in New York City, double majoring in Photography and Journalism. Parker now lives in Savannah, Georgia where she works at SCAD and continues to produce work for her art practice as well as freelancing as a photographer for Bloomberg News, where her work has gone on to be published in Time Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and Vogue Business.

Renee Castro-Ring is a Lisjan band Ohlone artist and emerging art conservator from Oakland, California. In 2023, she was selected for the prestigious Andrew W. Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation Workshop (UCLA/Getty), which led to a 10-week internship at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C., in the summer of 2024. She recently secured a year-long internship in object conservation at The DeYoung Museum in San Francisco while continuing her chemistry studies and exhibiting artwork.

I am enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, my heritage also includes Mohawk and Mexican. Born and raised in Oakland and proud mom to Anavey a freshman at University of Oregon. I’ve been in my current role Executive Director of Intertribal Friendship House since October 2024. Blessed to be able to share space, love and good medicine with my community. I love to spend time with my family, friends, in the outdoors, bead and sew.

I love beading and sewing. Honored to be a part of this project.

Merci is a tribal advocate for domestic violence/sexual assault. She enjoys camping, ceremony and spending time with family.

Ashley Salaz is an Indigenous storyteller living in the occupied Ohlone territory of Huchiun (Oakland, CA). She is an enrolled member of the Coharie Tribe (North Carolina), but was born and raised in the urban sprawl of the East Bay Area. Ashley began photographing Indigenous people in California as a way to connect to a culture that she didn’t know growing up, and to tell modern stories of the people who have tended to this land since time immemorial.

I am a 29 yr old Autistic Native artist born and raised in SF mission and the farming town of Pescadero. I am from the Hyampon Wintun band. I am versatile artist working with multiple types of mediums.

I bead and make ribbon skirts, love camping and drumming with family. I work for the Tuolumne Band of Me Wuk as a grant writer trainee. And I also teach cultural classes for the Tribal TANF program.

I am a councilwoman with the Coast Miwok Tribal Council of Marin, a student, photographer, and documentary filmmaker. I worked as a producer for several years and am back in school now studying anthropology so I can contribute to my tribe’s cultural preservation initiatives. I also love to play music.

Amelia likes traveling.

Kim Tercero, a Nahua Pipil/Kʼiche Maya innovator and compassionate leader, is the Founder + Principal of Tercero Solutions. With over 20 years of experience, she fosters social change across social enterprises, nonprofits, startups, and SMBs through her deep dedication to equity, harnessing the power of "tech for good." Drawing strength from her Oakland community and her identity as the proud daughter of immigrant parents, Kim's values echo throughout her work, volunteer initiatives, partnerships, and activism as she uplifts Black and Brown communities.

I’m Nevaeh Treviño from Oakland, CA, where my grandparents relocated in the 1960s. I’m Shoshone, Navajo, and Mexican, and I work in the Native community here in Oakland at Intertribal Friendship House. In my spare time, I enjoy all forms of art, including sewing and beading, which have been both a creative outlet and a way for me to build meaningful connections.

Born and raised in her ancestral village of Huchiun, Cheyenne is a Tribal member of the Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation. She has been working in the Native community all her life. She has worked with the youth, helped with organizing events, protesting for native/human rights, and advocated for native families in the east bay. While on the land she brings along her children. She continues to build relationships, strengthen her Tribal traditions, tends to the land, and prepares emergency hubs.