“In my 12 years of doing community radio, I had never had the opportunity to produce my own radio pieces. This was a task delegated and assumed by men, and therefore I came to think it was something complicated.
“In my 12 years of doing community radio, I had never had the opportunity to produce my own radio pieces. This was a task delegated and assumed by men, and therefore I came to think it was something complicated.
We are excited to announce that Cultural Survival’s Executive Director Suzanne Benally (Santa Clara Tewa/ Navajo) has joined the Board of Directors of International Funders for Indigenous Peoples (IFIP), the only global donor affinity group dedicated solely to Indigenous Peoples around the world. For the past seventeen years, IFIP has built momentum toward a new movement in philanthropy that recognizes Indigenous communities as high-impact investments. Throughout the years, IFIP has organized 14 major conferences, bringing thousands of donors and Indigenous leaders together.
El proceso de solicitud estará abierto hasta el 8 de octubre de 2018.
Fecha de Cierre de Aplicación: Diciembre 15, 2017
Application Deadline: December 15, 2017
Cultural Survival welcomes Nati Garcia, Indigenous Youth Community Media Fellowship Coordinator, as the newest member to our staff. Nati is Maya Mam from Ixtahuacan, Guatemala. She was born in a refugee camp in Campeche, Mexico as her family fled Guatemala in the 1980’s due to the military genocide operation that targeted Indigenous communities. At the age of 3 years old, her family received refugee in Canada.
The following is an excerpt from two chapters of the newly published The Archipelago of Hope (2017) by Gleb Raygorodetsky, an enlightening global journey revealing how the inextricable links between Indigenous cultures and their territories are the foundation for climate change resilience around the world. The Indigenous traditional territories are islands of biocultural diversity in the ever-rising sea of development and urbanization.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.