CV
LECTURES:
*Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Fe, NM November 2017
*Art Center College of Art & Design, Pasadena: Lecture, July 2019
*Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, Washington DC: Giving Thanks Teacher Workshop November 2019
*University of Riverside, NASP Lecture Series with Weshoyot Alvitre 2020
*UCLA 30th Annual Thinking Gender Graduate Student Research Conference: “Sexual Violence as
Structural Violence: Feminist Visions of Transformative Justice” Keynote opener March 2020
*Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archaeology Lecture May 2020
*Society of Illustrators, The business of Illustration Lecture June 2020
*CUNY Ghostriver Lecture, October 2020
*Cambridge University Beyond Expectations: Pasts, Presents, and Futures in Native Art October 2020
*PBS Comics Culture, October 2020
*CSUN “What’s art got to do with survivance?” November 2020
*Society of Black Archaeologists, Indigenous Archaeology Collective, Wenner-Gren
Foundation for Anthropological Research, and Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Material
Studies, “ Black and Indigenous Storytellers as Counter-History” November 2020
*CSULB American Indian studies Lecture, November 2020
*Fibershed lecture March 2021
*Manitoba Graphic Novel panel March 2021
*Pew Lecture Series Lee Francis, Will Fenton April 2021
*When Rivers Were Trails lecture April 2021
*Autry Historical Imaginations with John Mack Faragher June 2021
*Untouchable Artifacts Exhibit 5 Oaks Museum July 2021
* GHOSTRIVER Gettysburg lecture October 2021
*Tyler School of Art & Design lecture October 2021
* Berkeley Carrol School lecture NYC October 2021
* CSULB art lecture, November 2021
*University San Diego Lecture, November 2021
*“Indigenous Futures through Multimedia” UCONN Lecture, April 2022
* Marshall McKay Seminar for Empowering Native Knowledge Autry, April 2022
EXHIBITIONS:
*2016 Native Realities: Superheroes of Past, Present, & Future,
form & concept gallery, Sante Fe, NM
*2017 Leonardo Di Caprio Foundation annual show & Auction, San Tropez, France
*2018 Manifesto: A Moderate Proposal, Pitzer College Art Galleries Claremont, CA
*2018 ALL MY RELATIONS ARTS: Bring Her Home, MINNEAPOLIS, MN
*2019-2020 Ghostriver: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga Exhibit, The Library Company,
Philadelphia, PA
*2021 Tongvaland Project Los Angeles, CA
*2021 Native New York Smithsonian NMAI, New York, NY
*2021 Five Oaks Museum Untouchable Artifacts
*2022 Native Truths: Our Voices, Our Stories FIELD MUSEM, Chicago, IL
*2022 Indigenous Women’s Atelier, Self Help Graphics, Los Angeles, CA
*2022 Crossing Waters, Catalina Island Museum, Catalina Island, CA
AWARDS:
2015 Eisner best anthology “Little Nemo Dream Another Dream”
2018 Prism Award “The Hummingbird Boys” Moonshot Volume 2
2018 American Indian Library Association Award for Best Middle School Book: “Tales of the Mighty
Code Talkers” Anthology
2019 INDIECADE Adaptation Award “When Rivers Were Trails.”
2020 American Indian Youth Literature Award - Picture Book Honor “At The Mountains Base”
KOKILA
2020 American Library Association Notable Children's Book “At The Mountains Base” KOKILA
2020 Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People “At The Mountains Base” KOKILA
2020 Rise: A Feminist Book Project - Top Ten List “At The Mountains Base” KOKILA
2020 Notable Books for a Global Society Award List “At The Mountains Base” KOKILA
2020 Wisconsin State Reading Association Recommendation List “At The Mountains Base”
KOKILA
2020 Bank Street's Best Children's Books of the Year “At The Mountains
Base” - Poetry
2021 BCCB Blue Ribbon Nonfiction Book Award "Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories"
2022 Oklahoma Book Award Winner: Young Adult "Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories"
2022 Kirkus Reviews Best Middle-Grade Anthologies of 2021 "Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories"
2022 New York Public Library's Best Books for Kids List selection "Living Ghosts and Mischievous Monsters: Chilling American Indian Stories"