College Horizons

Enjoy this interview featuring Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio! She is a CH '06 and '07 alum. - - - Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio is a Kanaka Maoli wahine artist/ activist / scholar born and raised in Pālolo Valley to parents Jonathan and Mary Osorio. Heoli earned her PhD in English (Hawaiian literature) in 2018 from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Currently, Heoli is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous and Native Hawaiian Politics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Heoli is a three-time national poetry champion, poetry mentor and a published author. She is a proud past Kaiāpuni student, Ford fellow, and a graduate of Kamehameha, Stanford University (BA) and New York University (MA). Her book Remembering our Intimacies: Moʻolelo, Aloha ʻĀina, and Ea is forthcoming with University of Minnesota Press in Fall 2021.  Twitter: @JamaicaOsorio Instagram: @JamaicaOsorio Website: https://jamaicaosorio.wordpress.com/  Upcoming Book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/remembering-our-intimacies PBS Documentary “This Is The Way We Rise”: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/jamaica-heolimeleikalani-osorio-this-is-the-way-we-rise/15821/  UH Indigenous Politics Program: https://uhip.politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/jamaica-heolimeleikalani-osorio/  - - - - - College Horizons is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to increasing the number of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students succeeding in college and graduate programs. Since 1998, we have served over 3,300 Native students on their path to higher ed through our admissions and financial aid workshops. Be sure to follow College Horizons! CH Website: https://collegehorizons.org/ Instagram: @CollegeHorizons Facebook: College Horizons Twitter: @CollegeHorizons Donate to College Horizons, Inc.: https://collegehorizons.org/give/ - - - - - Hosted by Kendall Harvey (Diné / CH '13). Music by Sam Bader (Kanaka Maoli / CH '13). Cover art by Jared Yazzie (Diné / CH '05 & '06).

Enjoy this interview featuring Liz Reese! She is a CH '06, GH '10 and '12 alum. - - - Elizabeth A. Reese, Yunpoví (Tewa: Willow Flower) is an Assistant Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. She teaches and writes about American Indian tribal law, federal Indian law, and constitutional law—specifically the intersection of identity, race, citizenship, and government structure. Her scholarship examines the way government structures, citizen identity, and the history that is taught in schools, can impact the rights and powers of oppressed racial minorities within American law. Before becoming a law professor, Professor Reese spent time working in all three branches of the federal government. Professor Reese worked at the National Congress of American Indians where she supported tribal governments across the country as they implemented expanded criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians under the 2013 Violence Against Women Act. Reese began her legal career as a civil rights litigator at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund where she led a desegregation case in one of the largest school districts in Florida and worked on the challenge to Alabama's Voter ID law. She is tribally enrolled at Nambe Pueblo. Twitter: @Yunpovi Instagram: @Yunpovi Stanford Directory: https://law.stanford.edu/directory/elizabeth-reese/ - - - - - College Horizons is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to increasing the number of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students succeeding in college and graduate programs. Since 1998, we have served over 3,300 Native students on their path to higher ed through our admissions and financial aid workshops. Be sure to follow College Horizons! CH Website: https://collegehorizons.org/ Instagram: @CollegeHorizons Facebook: College Horizons Twitter: @CollegeHorizons Donate to College Horizons, Inc.: https://collegehorizons.org/give/ - - - - - Hosted by Kendall Harvey (Diné / CH '13). Music by Sam Bader (Kanaka Maoli / CH '13). Cover art by Jared Yazzie (Diné / CH '05 & '06).

Enjoy this interview featuring Aaron Yazzie! He is a CH '02 & GH '08 alum. - - - Aaron Yazzie, Diné, is Ashįįhí (Salt Clan) and born for Todích'íi'nii (Bitter Water Clan). He is a Mechanical Engineer at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California where he designs mechanical systems for NASA's robotic space research missions. His most extensive contributions have been for missions to the planet Mars. Aaron was born in Tuba City, Arizona on the Navajo Nation, and was raised in Holbrook, Arizona. He attended Stanford University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering in 2008. Aaron is a Sequoyah Fellow and professional member of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES). In 2016 Yazzie was honored by the Navajo Nation Council for “serving as an inspiration to Diné youth and citizens”, and in 2019 received the NASA JPL Bruce Murray Award “for outstanding and consistent dedication in promoting inclusion and excitement in science and education especially among Indigenous Communities.” Instagram: @YazzieSees Twitter: @YazzieSays Aaron Yazzie's website: https://www.aaronyazzie.com/ - - - - - College Horizons is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to increasing the number of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students succeeding in college and graduate programs. Since 1998, we have served over 3,300 Native students on their path to higher ed through our admissions and financial aid workshops. Be sure to follow College Horizons! CH Website: https://collegehorizons.org/ Instagram: @CollegeHorizons Facebook: College Horizons Twitter: @CollegeHorizons Donate to College Horizons, Inc.: https://collegehorizons.org/give/ - - - - - Hosted by Kendall Harvey (Diné / CH '13). Music by Sam Bader (Kanaka Maoli / CH '13). Cover art by Jared Yazzie (Diné / CH '05 & '06).

Enjoy this interview featuring Julia Bernal! She is a CH '08 alum. - - - Julia Bernal is a tribal member from the Pueblo of Sandia and also from the Yuchi nation in Oklahoma. She is currently a dual-degree student at UNM in Water Resources and Community and Regional Planning. She is the current Alliance Director for Pueblo Action Alliance, a grassroots organization that focuses on the environmental, social and racial issues impacting Indigenous communities in the Southwest. Julia has contributed her analysis on environmental issues with her expertise on New Mexico water and environmental policies and organization. Particularly, her focus has remained on the oil and gas industry and how it's adverse impacts affect the environment, the water and the people. She advocates for the decolonization of water policy and stolen water resources. She has helped PAA build campaigns against carbon pricing, fracking, Land Back and recently #WaterBack. Instagram: @JuliaFayBernal Twitter: @JuliaFayBernal Pueblo Action Alliance website: https://www.puebloactionalliance.org/ - - - - - College Horizons is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to increasing the number of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students succeeding in college and graduate programs. Since 1998, we have served over 3,300 Native students on their path to higher ed through our admissions and financial aid workshops. Be sure to follow College Horizons! CH Website: https://collegehorizons.org/ Instagram: @CollegeHorizons Facebook: College Horizons Twitter: @CollegeHorizons Donate to College Horizons, Inc.: https://collegehorizons.org/give/ - - - - - Hosted by Kendall Harvey (Diné / CH '13). Music by Sam Bader (Kanaka Maoli / CH '13). Cover art by Jared Yazzie (Diné / CH '05 & '06).

Enjoy this interview featuring Dr. Adrienne Keene! She is a CH '02, GH '06 & '08 alum. - - - Adrienne Keene is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and an assistant professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University, where her research examines the experiences of Indigenous students navigating higher education as well as representations of Native peoples in popular culture. She is also the longtime author and editor of the blog Native Appropriations, and the co-creator and co-host of the podcast All My Relations. She is an alumna of College Horizons and Graduate Horizons, and attended Stanford University and Harvard Graduate School of Education. She also has served as a faculty member at over 20 CH and CH Scholars programs. Instagram: @NativeApprops Twitter: @NativeApprops Website: https://www.adriennekeene.com/ Native Appropriations Blog All My Relations Podcast "Notable Native People" Book - - - - - College Horizons is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to increasing the number of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students succeeding in college and graduate programs. Since 1998, we have served over 3,300 Native students on their path to higher ed through our admissions and financial aid workshops. Be sure to follow College Horizons! CH Website: https://collegehorizons.org/ Instagram: @CollegeHorizons Facebook: College Horizons Twitter: @CollegeHorizons Donate to College Horizons, Inc.: https://collegehorizons.org/give/ - - - - - Hosted by Kendall Harvey (Diné / CH '13). Music by Sam Bader (Kanaka Maoli / CH '13). Cover art by Jared Yazzie (Diné / CH '05 & '06).

Every week leading up to the 2021 summer program dates, the College Horizons podcast will share a new conversation featuring one of our program alumni. The College Horizons alum will talk about their background and share some insights about critical decisions they've made along the way as a Native scholar. - - - - - College Horizons is a 501c3 non-profit dedicated to increasing the number of Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian students succeeding in college and graduate programs. Since 1998, we have served over 3,300 Native students on their path to higher ed through our admissions and financial aid workshops. Be sure to follow College Horizons! CH Website: https://collegehorizons.org/ Instagram: @CollegeHorizons Facebook: College Horizons Twitter: @CollegeHorizons Donate to College Horizons, Inc.: https://collegehorizons.org/give/ - - - - - Hosted by Kendall Harvey (Diné / CH '13). Music by Sam Bader (Kanaka Maoli / CH '13). Cover art by Jared Yazzie (Diné / CH '05 & '06).