Badass Ladies You Should Know:
CEO/Journalist/Advocate/Podcaster Johnnie Jae
Over the past three years, I’ve had the honor of sharing 65 profiles of amazing ladies with you, and while I’m sad to be putting the project on indefinite hiatus for health reasons, I couldn’t be more pleased to be ending the series with a bang – or, more accurately, a Brown Ball of Fury. Johnnie Jae is an Indigenerd force of nature, bringing Native people, projects, and issues to national attention. From geek and pop culture to suicide prevention and political advocacy, Johnnie is an incredibly badass lady, and I’m thrilled she’s capping off the Badass Ladies You Should Know project.
(Source: katehart.net)
Pay It Forward:
Editor, storyteller, and activist Taté Walker shares more badass ladies we should know
Check out these suggestions from Taté (with bios from their respective pages), then click through to read her Badass Ladies profile and enter to win a free copy of Native Peoples magazine!
“Were you as jazzed as me July 27?
That SCOTUS decision was in large part due to the efforts of this awesome
badass: Renee Bracey Sherman.”
Renee is
is an award winning reproductive justice activist and the author of Saying Abortion Aloud: Research and Recommendations for Public Abortion Storytellers and Organizations and the co-author of Speak Up & Stay Safe®, a multi-lingual digital guide on handling online harassment. She is a writer with Echoing Ida, a project of Forward Together that amplifies the voices of Black women thought leaders. Bracey Sherman’s work on abortion storytelling and reproductive rights has been featured on BBC, The Guardian, The Washington Post, EBONY, Salon, Fusion, TIME, and The Atlantic. Bracey Sherman holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration from Cornell University and currently sits on the board of NARAL Pro-Choice America Foundation.
Indigenerd Johnnie Jae:
Johnnie is
the founder of A Tribe Called Geek. Managing Partner at Native Max Magazine, Producer/Host at SuccessNativeStyle, and Board Member of Not Your Mascots.
Two Spirit Lyzz Bien:
Lyzz is a Passamaquoddy artist, presenter and performer.
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Taté Walker is a Lakota storyteller, feminist activist, blogger, photographer, and social services professional who promotes cultural competency and inclusion for all spaces. Her experience includes more than 12 years as a professional multimedia journalist. She is the editor of Native Peoples magazine, which provides an international audience with fair and accurate representations of Indigenous perspectives and experiences in ways that educate, entertain, and empower through journalistic storytelling. She also spent eight years within the social services sector in the fields of juvenile justice, civil rights, and youth and family advocacy. She and her husband, Dalton (also a journalist), leveled-up in life after the birth of their now 7-year-old daughter, Kimimila.
website // blog // twitter // @walkerimagining // everyday feminism
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“Badass Ladies You Should Know” is brought to you by Kate Hart (kdhart), author of AFTER THE FALL, coming January 24, 2017 from Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
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