Dr. Adrienne Keene & Matika Wilbur

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It's #matriarchmonday and we are celebrating the beauty and brains of the All My Relations duo, Dr. Adrienne Keene and Matika Wilbur! Follow them @amrpodcast.

Adrienne is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and is passionate about reframing how the world sees contemporary Native cultures. She is the creator and author of Native Appropriations, a blog discussing cultural appropriation and stereotypes of Native peoples in fashion, film, music, and other forms of pop culture, and a faculty member in American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University. Adrienne holds a doctorate in Culture, Communities, and Education from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Her research focuses on college access for Native (American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian) students and the role of precollege access programs in student success.

Matika (Swinomish and Tulalip) is one of the nation’s leading photographers, based in the Pacific Northwest. She earned her BFA from Brooks Institute of Photography where she double majored in Advertising and Digital Imaging. Her most recent endeavor, Project 562, has brought Matika to over 500 tribal nations dispersed throughout all 50 U.S. states where she has taken thousands of portraits, and collected hundreds of contemporary narratives from the breadth of Indian Country.

These womxn have continued to release episodes and content that speak to what it means to be Indigenous now and looking forward to the future. Their line-up of guests have included our own @indigenousgoddessgang founder, Kim Smith, and their episode - Healing The Land IS Healing Ourselves - released in May was rated as one of the "Top 9 Podcast Episodes That Help Build Empathy" by Forbes in 2020. Read more about it here.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hollycorbett/2021/12/31/9-podcast-episodes-that-help-build-empathy/?sh=71a578f756fe

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