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NVC Cultural Center Event - Relational Embodiment and Afro-Indigenous Kinship: A Roadmap to Thrivance 
November 9th, 2022. Online. 12:30 - 1:30 p.m.

Event Description:  ​​Andrew Jolivétte is Professor and Department Chair of Ethnic Studies as well as the inaugural founding Director of Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS) at UC San Diego. The NAIS Program features a minor and graduate certificate in Native American and Indigenous Studies and will also feature an elder/culture bearer in-residence program. Dr. Jolivétte is a former Professor and Department Chair of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University and a Senior Ford Foundation Fellow. He is the author or editor of nine books in print or forthcoming including the Lammy Award nominated, Indian Blood: HIV and Colonial Trauma in San Francisco's Two-Spirit Community, Research Justice: Methodologies for Social Change, Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed-Race Native American Identity, and Louisiana Creole Peoplehood: Afro-Indigeneity and Community. An enrolled member of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation of Louisiana, he is his tribe's former tribal historian and is born of the Hiyekiti Ishak [Sunrise People] of the Tsikip/Heron Clan. He is a Louisiana Creole of Ishak, West African, French, Spanish, Italian and Irish descent. Professor Jolivétte is the Board President of the American Indian Cultural Center of San Francisco and the Board Chair of the Institute for Democratic Education and Culture (Speak Out) as well as the co-chair of the newly formed UC Ethnic Studies Council. A former Indigenous Peoples Representative to the United Nations Forum on HIV and the Law, he is active in both scholarship and community work. Dr. currently serves as an Advisory Board Member with the UCLA American Indian Culture and Research Journal, as a Ford Foundation Senior Fellow, as the Series Editor of Black Indigenous Futures and Speculations at Routledge, as a Chief Investigator with the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Indigenous Futures (CEIF), and as a Scientific Research Mentor for the IHART (Indigenous HIV/AIDS Research Training Program) at the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (IWRI) at the University of Washington in Seattle. He currently serves on the UC A-G writing group that is working to implement the Ethnic Studies admissions requirement across the University of California System. As consultant with CSU Los Angeles, CSU Channel Islands, and San Francisco Unified School District, Dr. Jolivétte is a nationally recognized expert on Ethnic Studies curriculum and program development. A highly sought after speaker and poet, he has spoken to thousands of students, faculty, administrators, non-profits, government agencies, and NGOs around the world from the United States to Canada, Australia, and the Netherlands. 


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