COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, ADVOCACY, and CONSULTATION

  • NYT Op-Doc: "A Conversation with Native Americans on Race"

    Native Americans challenge their invisibility in society.

    "My name means that my family survived."

    VIDEO INTERVIEW

    New York Times

  • Thirteen in the Community

    Since 2017, The WNET Group’s Community Engagement division has held frank, private convenings with 300-plus thinkers and doers from across New York City to better understand the issues facing New Yorkers. Independent artists, activists, entrepreneurs, journalists, and community organizers have also participated and enriched these conversations.

    COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT PARTNER

    PBS Thirteen

  • "WA school mascot draws Native family into decades-long fight"

    A Vancouver high school has had a “Chieftain” mascot since the 1960s. Students who've criticized it hope the latest challenge will be the last.

    In conversations with students at the school, she found resistance to the idea of changing the mascot from a “Chieftain” to something else. Fine, she thought — it wasn’t her preference, but she could work with that.

    ARTICLE INTERVIEW

    Crosscut

  • Think Out Loud: "Vancouver family continues fight for removal of Native American mascot"

    Two generations of the McAllister family have attended Columbia River High School, which uses a Native American mascot. Each family member has felt the negative impacts of the school’s inaccurate depiction of Native Americans. After the Washington D.C. professional football team recently agreed to scrap its racist name and mascot, the McAllisters hope that the high-profile decision could reignite a local conversation in Vancouver.

    RADIO INTERVIEW

    OPB

  • National Endowment for the Arts: Grants Panelist

    The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is the only arts funder in the United States—public or private—that provides access to the arts in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. jurisdictions.

    Panels are made up of experts with knowledge and experience in the area under review.

    MULTIDISPLINARY ARTS PANELIST

    NEA

  • "Minority students aren’t pulled to magnet schools"

    Anastasia McAllister still remembers not feeling well when she left her interview at Vancouver School of Arts and Academics. Would her art, deeply rooted in her Hopi and Colville roots, be understood or taken seriously at the school?

    ARTICLE INTERVIEW

    The Columbian

  • DOT’s Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, Diversity & Inclusion

    Strength of Native American Women Panel: Learn about the triumphs and challenges faced by Native Americans, both past and present.

    EQUITY CONSULTANT