Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center Mikaela Grace Monson-Cox is a 2015 UCLA graduate who earned a BA in American Indian Studies. Mikaela, who is Osage, went on to study law at Southwestern Law School, where she earned her JD in 2017. Mikaela currently works as a healthcare attorney in … Read more
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center Natalie Stites Means is a UCLA graduate who earned a BA in History, and a minor in American Indian Studies, in 1999. Means, who is Cheyenne River Lakota and Crow Creek Dakota, put herself through community college while working full-time to transfer to UCLA, … Read more
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center Damien Montaño is a 2017 UCLA graduate who earned an MA in American Indian Studies. He is Yoeme and Purépecha, and is currently working in collaboration with the Torres Martinez Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), where he leads a series of jewelry … Read more
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center Shalene Joseph is a 2018 UCLA graduate who earned an MA in American Indian Studies. She is A’aniiih and Athabascan, and currently works for the Native Wellness Institute (NWI) as a Project Director, where she and her team organize and promote the physical, mental, … Read more
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center LittleDove F. Rey is a 2018 UCLA graduate who earned a BA in Psychology, with a minor in American Indian Studies. She is Maidu and Miwok from the Auburn Rancheria (United Auburn Indian Community), and currently attends the PGSP-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium, a program run by … Read more
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center Pamela J. Peters, a Navajo (Diné) Reservation native, is a multimedia Indigenous documentarian and a 2011 graduate with a BA in American Indian Studies (AIS) and Film & Television Studies. Her photography work is identified by her Diné first clan, Táchii’nii (Red Running Into … Read more
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center The Tongva artist Mercedes Dorame is a 2003 UCLA graduate who earned a BA in American Literature and Culture and went on to receive an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute. She calls on her Tongva ancestry to engage the problematics of visibility … Read more
Today, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld tribal courts’ consecutive sentencing authority to impose up to a one-year term of imprisonment for each discrete criminal violation committed by offenders in their jurisdictions. The American Indian Studies Center would like to highlight the efforts of one alumna who helped make this legal milestone possible. Amanda … Read more