Inspiring programs and speakers from Cisco's Native American Network.

Highlights from 2022

Mariah Gladstone

July 8, 2022
Cultural Outreach
​Cooking Demo

Mariah Gladstone (Blackfeet, Cherokee) grew up in Northwest Montana. She graduated from Columbia University with a degree in Environmental Engineering and returned home where she developed Indigikitchen. Mariah has been recognized as a "Champion for Change" through the Center for Native American Youth, a "Culture of Health Leader" through the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and an MIT Solve Indigenous Communities Fellow. She serves on the board of the FAST (Food Access and Sustainability Team) Blackfeet. Mariah completed her Master's Degree at SUNY - ESF through the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.

Gregg Deal

May 5, 2022
​Social Justice
​Fireside Chat

Gregg Deal, (Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe) is a multi-disciplinary artist, activist, and "disruptor." His work is informed by his Native identity and includes exhaustive critiques of American society's politics, popular culture, and history. Through paintings, murals, performance work, filmmaking, spoken word, amore, Deal invites the viewer to confront these issues both in the present and past tense. In a 2018 TED Talk, Deal described his work as “honoring Indigenous experiences, challenging stereotypes, and pushing for accurate representations of Indigenous people in art.” It is in these "disruptions" of stereotypes and ahistorical representations which Deal uses the term to describe his work. Gregg Deal has exhibited his work at notable institutions both locally, nationally, and internationally including the Denver Art Museum, RedLine Gallery, and The Smithsonian Institution. The artist currently lives with his wife and five children along the Front Range of Colorado.

Maggie Deforge

March 25, 2022
Beading
​Workshop

Maggie Deforge, Kanienʼkehá꞉ka (Mohawk),, is the Chair of Occupational therapy for Native Americans from Durham, North Carolina.

​ " I want to use my passion for client-centered, culturally sensitive care as well as my creativity, empathy, tenacity and communication skills to positively impact each client and family I encounter. My career goal is to increase the number of Native OT practitioners and improve/increase the provision of OT services to indigenous individuals and communities." 

Highlights from 2021

Radmilla Cody

​February 16, 2021
Virtual Event
​Social Justice Week​

Radmilla Cody is a GRAMMY Nominee, multiple Native American Music Awards winner, 46th Miss Navajo Nation, one of NPR's 50 great voices, a Black History Maker Honoree, and an advocate against domestic abuse and violence. Miss Cody is of the Tla'a'schi'i'(Red Bottom People) clan and is born for the Naahilii (African-Americans). 
https://radmillacody.com

Robert Geary

October 11, 2021
​Virtual Event
Indigenous People's Day

Robert Geary is an enrolled tribal citizen of the Elem Indian Colony of Pomo Indians in Lake County, California. He is currently a Xaitsnoo language teacher, traditional ceremonial roundhouse leader, and founder and president of the Clear Lake Pomo Cultural Preservation Foundation, a nonprofit organization for protection and preservation of tribal cultural resources. Geary has been a guest speaker at several academic institutions, including Purdue University, Stanford, UC Berkeley, and UC Davis, on language revitalization and cultural awareness. Currently, Geary is employed with the Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake, Cultural Resources Department as the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer (THPO).

Tommy Orange

November 16, 2021
Virtual Event
​​Fireside Chat

"Tommy Orange is an American novelist and writer from Oakland, California, and a graduate of the MFA program at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His first book There There was one of the finalists for the 2019 Pulitzer Prize and received the 2019 American Book Award. Orange is a citizen of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma."

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