Telling Stories about the Environment, and Finding Indigenous Solutions
April 22, 2021
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Shondiin Mayo
Shondiin Mayo is originally from Stevens Village, Alaska, and grew up in both Fairbanks and the Navajo Nation. She is Diné (Navajo) and Tleeyegge Hut’aane and is of the Bitterwater Clan and born for the Koyukon Athabascan people. As a leader in the Center for Native American Youth’s Ambassadors for Land Conservation program, Shondiin and a partner are developing a podcast to bring to light the impacts of uranium mining in the Grand Canyon. She will soon enter the University of Alaska Fairbanks for graduate school. We spoke to Shondiin about how climate change is affecting Indigenous communities and the ways she’s taking on that fight.