Nov 8
Convocation with Matika Wilbur
Matika Wilbur is a critically acclaimed social documentarian that belongs to the Swinomish and Tulalip peoples of coastal Washington. Project 562, her crowdfunded initiative to visit, engage, and photograph people from over 500 sovereign Tribal Nations in North America, is her fourth major creative venture elevating Native American identity and culture.
Matika also currently hosts the podcast All My Relations, which invites guests to delve into a different topic facing Native peoples today and explore the connections between land, creatural relatives, and one another. This podcast has been downloaded 3 million times.
In 2023, her book Project 562: Changing The Way We See Native America was published with praise from There There author Tommy Orange, was longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal, and was a New York Times Bestseller.
She has offered over 300 keynotes at such places as TED, Harvard, Yale, and Google and in November of 2023 Matika released her curriculum A Visual Learning Guide To: Transform. Indigenize. Decolonize. in partnership with The National Education Association, and in the five short months it’s been available, it had been adopted in more than 200 classrooms.