People
This is a list of (extra)ordinary people who continue to teach and inspire me. Like me, it is always evolving. See also the Values I ascribe to and the Resources that help me do so.
- Dawn Neptune Adams (Penobscot Nation)
- Sara Ahmed
- Kathy Absolon (Anishinaabe)
- Gloria Anzaldúa
- Maile Renee Arvin (Kānaka Maoli)
- Davarian Baldwin
- Joanne Barker (Lenape (Delaware Tribe of Indians))
- Kathleen Belew
- Derrick Bell
- Marquis Bey
- Steve Biko
- Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone)
- Keisha Blain
- JoAnne Bland
- Kathleen Blee
- Brian Brayboy (Lumbee)
- adrienne maree brown
- Charlene Carruthers
- Michelle Caswell
- Renate Chancellor
- Nicole Cooke
- Brittney Cooper
- Glen Coulthard (Yellowknives Dene)
- Angela Davis
- Richard Delgado
- Philip Deloria (Standing Rock Sioux)
- Vine Deloria, Jr. (Standing Rock Sioux)
- W.E.B. Du Bois
- Tony Dunbar
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
- Shiraz Durrani
- Mona Eltahawy
- Nick Estes (Kul Wicasa)
- Fobazi Ettarh
- Frantz Fanon
- Jennifer Ferretti
- Claudia Fox Tree (Arawak/Yurumein)
- Marielle Franco
- Paulo Freire
- Paula J. Giddings
- Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes)
- gkisedtanamoogk (Mashpee Wampanoag)
- Sandy Grande (Quechua)
- Joyce Green (English, Ktunaxa and Cree-Scots Métis)
- Beverly Guy-Sheftall
- Ruby Hamad
- Cheryl Harris
- April Hathcock
- Patricia Hill Collins
- Alexis Pauline Gumbs
- Elizabeth Hinton
- Oscar Hokeah (Cherokee/Kiowa/Mexican)
- Todd Honma
- bell hooks
- David James Hudson
- Margaret Jacobs
- Martha S. Jones
- Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers
- EJ Josey
- J. Kēhaulani Kauanui (Kanaka Maoli)
- Robin D. G. Kelley
- Mikki Kendall
- Florynce Kennedy
- Naomi Klein
- Margaret Kovach
- Gloria Ladson-Billings
- Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe)
- Denise K. Lajimodiere (Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians (Anishinaabe))
- Mishy Lesser
- Sofia Leung
- Patty Loew (Mashkiiziibii (Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe))
- K. Tsianina Lomawaima (Mvskoke/Creek Nation)
- Jorge Lopez-McKnight
- Audre Lorde
- Ben Madley
- Zerlina Maxwell
- Adam Mazo
- Walter Mignolo
- Charles Mills
- Rafia Mirza
- Koritha Mitchell
- Fred Moten
- Donna Murch
- Chris Newell (Passamaquoddy)
- Safiya Noble
- Jean O’Brien (White Earth Ojibwe)
- Bwaakoningwild David O’Connor (Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Ojibwe))
- Margo Okazawa-Rey
- Tema Okun
- Jeffrey Ostler
- Nell Irvin Painter
- Leigh Patel
- Roger Paul (Passamaquoddy, Wolastoq)
- Dorothy Pitman Hughes
- Barbara Ransby
- Gina Schlesselman-Tarango
- Maura Seale
- Mab Segrest
- Gayatri Sethi
- Audra Simpson (Kahnawake Mohawk)
- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson (Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg)
- Barbara Smith
- Linda Tuhiwai Smith (Aotearoa)
- Timothy Snyder
- endawnis Spears (Diné/Ojibwe/Chickasaw/Choctaw)
- Gloria Steinem
- Ann Laura Stoler
- Kim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate)
- Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
- Eve Tuck (Unangax̂)
- Harsha Walia
- Shaundra Walker
- Isabel Wilkerson
- Patrick Wolfe
- K. Wayne Yang