I am a citizen of the Delaware Tribe of Indians. We call ourselves Lenape or Lënapei. My father was Delaware, my mother Irish and Norwegian.

I have been drawing since I was a child, growing up in southern California with family in eastern Oklahoma. All my childhood photo albums and scrapbooks include something of my drawings. After high school, I drew on letters home and to friends. And then studies took over my life and email took over. It was not until graduate school that I began drawing again.

I did not really publicly share my work until my dear friend, Teresia Kieuea Teaiwa, passed away in 2017. I was trying to figure out how to honor her. She was brave and fearless. She encouraged me to be more generous in sharing my art. So, slowly, I began posting on social media.

Since 2020, I have been integrating my art into my publications. It is a fuller language, this art and word together. It more closely represents my thinking than one or the other alone.

• “Troubling Democracy.” The 1619 Project Forum. Mark Philip Bradley and Fei-Hsien Wang, eds. American Historical Review (December 2022/January 2023), 127, no. 4: 1805-1810. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhac462

• "Confluence: Water as an Analytic of Indigenous Feminisms: An Introduction." Indigeneity, Feminism, Activism. Joanne Barker, guest editor, special issue of the American Indian Culture and Research Journal 43, no. 3 (Summer 2020), 1-40.

• "Decolonizing the Mind," Rethinking Marxism 30, no. 2 (2018), 1-26.