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Tanaya Winder

Tanaya Winder (Girl on Fire) is a writer, educator, motivational speaker, and performance poet from the Southern Ute, Duckwater Shoshone, and Pyramid Lake Paiute Nations. She grew up on the Southern Ute Indian reservation and attended college at Stanford University where she earned a BA in English and the University of New Mexico where she received an MFA in creative writing. Since then she has co-founded As/Us: A Space for Women of the World and founded Dream Warriors, an Indigenous artist management company. Tanaya is the Director of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Upward Bound program which serves approximately 103 Native American high school youth from 8 reservations. She is an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico in the Chicano and Chicana Studies program. She guest lectures, teaches creative writing workshops, and speaks at high schools, universities, and communities internationally. Tanaya writes and teaches about different expressions of love (self love, intimate love, social love, community love, and universal love); she is an advocate of heartwork and believes everyone has a gift they’ve been placed on this earth to share.

Tanaya Winder

Tanaya Winder (Girl on Fire) is a writer, educator, motivational speaker, and performance poet from the Southern Ute, Duckwater Shoshone, and Pyramid Lake Paiute Nations. She grew up on the Southern Ute Indian reservation and attended college at Stanford University where she earned a BA in English and the University of New Mexico where she received an MFA in creative writing. Since then she has co-founded As/Us: A Space for Women of the World and founded Dream Warriors, an Indigenous artist management company. Tanaya is the Director of the University of Colorado at Boulder’s Upward Bound program which serves approximately 103 Native American high school youth from 8 reservations. She is an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico in the Chicano and Chicana Studies program. She guest lectures, teaches creative writing workshops, and speaks at high schools, universities, and communities internationally. Tanaya writes and teaches about different expressions of love (self love, intimate love, social love, community love, and universal love); she is an advocate of heartwork and believes everyone has a gift they’ve been placed on this earth to share.

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This week's #WomenWarriorsWork spotlight is on Toni Brown, a warrior womxn for Indian education!

Toni is Italian/Portuguese from her father and Choctaw/Cherokee from her mother. Born and raised in northern California where she resides today, Toni is passionate about social justice issues, especially those facing Native children. She came to the field of Indian education with years of various experiences as a classroom volunteer, event and sports team manager, business owner, and most important of all: proud mother. 
Married to her best friend of 36 years, Don (California Miwok), Toni became involved in their sons' education from a young age. Placing high value and importance of knowing their own cultural traditions, as well as required school work, their children Dahlton (23) and Dahkota (18) both participated in Title VII Indian Education programs since elementary school.

Toni saw the importance of such work, and after years of working as a substitute student aide, she jumped at the opportunity to become an Indian Education Tutor through the Foothill Indian Education Alliance of California. For more than six years now, Toni has adapted her nurturing style of parenting to the classroom, where she considers many of her students to be "her kids." Her support for students doesn't end in the classroom; Toni has learned how to masterfully navigate the FAFSA college application and scholarship processes. Today, Toni works in multiple school settings and serves all high school Native youth in Amador County, California. 
Connect with Toni on IG & Twitter @Stanfordmom2 
Read more about Toni and other womxn warriors at https://www.womenwarriorswork.org/. @grownupnavajo @jacroessel @ramona_ramone @jodivoiceyellowfish @denisewickert @tanayawinder @noelaltaha
This week's Women Warriors Work spotlight is Jodi Burshia! 
Jodi Burshia (Laguna Pueblo, Diné, Hunkpapa Lakota, Assiniboine and Sioux) grew up among the Tohono O’otham People in southern Arizona. She attended the University of Arizona in Tucson where she earned a BA and MA.Ed before moving to Albuquerque to be closer to her home community of Laguna and pursue doctoral studies. She loves working in the classroom and has been an educator since 2000. Jodi strives to continue learning about and developing comprehensive and multidisciplinary approaches to educational, linguistic, and social justice disparities, especially in Indigenous communities.She is a member of the Native American Leadership in Education (NALE) doctoral cohort. She has a daughter that is the light of her life and keeps her on her toes!
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Women warriors will rise. In a world full of violence we will rise with love and compassion.
This week's Womxn Warrior Work spotlight is  Taylor Bennett-Begaye! She is a fellow New Mexican, Pueblo girl, and Native youth worker. Check out the work she does and signal boost this queen! -----------------

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