Native American Heritage Month

Patricia Marroquin Norby is a scholar and curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Appointed in 2020, Norby serves as the Met's first full-time Native American curator in the museum’s 150-year history. Norby — who is of Purépecha heritage — specializes in Native American art, with a particular focus on works that engage with intergenerational and ecological knowledge.

Jo Ann Kauffman, who is Nez Perce, is the Founder and CEO of Kauffman and Associates (KAI), a management consulting firm enhancing the reach and effectiveness of social sector organizations. With clients ranging from The Aspen Institute to the Centers for Disease Control and the U.S. Department of Education, Kauffman’s work spans diverse specialty areas and uses creative marketing tactics to advance progressive causes, especially in the field of public health.

Daniel Heath Justice of the Cherokee Nation is a scholar, novelist, and the Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Literature and Expressive Culture at the University of British Columbia. Justice’s scholarship is “interested in how, by imagining otherwise and by centering voices, perspectives, and subjectivities too often pushed to the margins, we might better understand where we’ve come from, where we are in the world today, and how we might realize better ways of being in the future.” Justice is the author of the award-winning Why Indigenous Lives Matter, Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History, as well as a trilogy of Indigenous fantasy novels, The Way of Thorn & Thunder.