Jenny L. Davis is a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation and a Professor of American Indian Studies and Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research interests sit at the intersections of Indigenous language futurism (including language reclamation & revitalization), Queer Indigenous Studies and speculative fiction and poetry.

Chelsea Vowel is a Métis writer, educator and scholar of Métis futurisms. Vowel is co-host of the Metis in Space podcast. For media inquiries, Vowel is represented by Rob Firing at the Transatlantic Agency.

Grace Dillon is an Anishinaabe academic and author. She is a professor in the Indigenous Nations Studies Program at Portland State University and coined the term Indigenous Futurisms.

Lisa Dellinger (Chickasaw Nation) is currently the Visiting Assistant Professor of Constructive Theologies and Louisville Postdoctoral Fellow at Phillips Theological Seminary in Tulsa, Oklahoma and Tinker Visitin Professor at Iliff School of Theology. She writes and teaches at the intersection of Christianity and Indigenous experience, bringing attention to Native identity, colonial history and the complexities […]

Tammy Adams is a self-described “life purpose shaman” who received mentoring from Pope John Paul II, Mother Teresa and the Dalai Lama. Contact is through Laura Mack.

The Center for Global Indigenous Cultures and Environmental Justice at Syracuse University works across traditional disciplinary boundaries, and alongside Indigenous communities, to facilitate research and student engagement opportunities in cultural heritage preservation and language revitalization, defending political sovereignty, and climate change and the environment. Contact is for the director, Scott Manning Stevens.

Tatiana Vagramenko is a social anthropologist who focuses on Christianity and the process of religious change among Indigenous people of the Russian Arctic. Vagramenko’s research interests include religion and resistance to power, religious fundamentalism and secularism, ethnic and religious minorities in Russia and Ukraine as well as state security and surveillance.

Miguel Astor-Aguilera is a professor at Arizona State University whose scholarship concentrates on religious studies, sociocultural anthropology, ethnography, material culture and archaeology focusing on Indigenous epistemologies within Latin America.

Catastrophic extreme weather events like droughts, floods and wildfires impact communities across the world as leaders continue to grapple with balancing energy needs and the global push for climate action. Although skepticism persists, a broad swath of faith communities advocate for policy change, fight for climate justice, establish creation care ministries, embrace solar energy, plant […]