The Indigenous Futures Survey, the largest survey of Native peoples ever conducted, represents a precedent-setting new chapter in Native-led research and organizing to dismantle systemic racism and build power for Native peoples. More than 6,400 Native adults from 401 Tribes and all 50 U.S. states participated in the survey. The results offer compelling new insights into the systemic challenges, issue priorities, and experiences of Native peoples, providing a platform to advocate for change. This session will share the groundbreaking approach and results of this research, its policy and systems change implications, and the critical need for narrative and culture change to ‘close the distance’ between the non-Native public and Native peoples.

Judith is a citizen of the Caddo Nation and director of the Native Organizers Alliance (NOA), a national Native training and organizing network. NOA works with tribes, traditional societies, and grassroots community groups in Native urban and tribal communities. At the core of her work is the belief that organizing a grassroots, durable ecosystem of Native leaders and organizers who share a common theory of change rooted in traditional values and sacred practices is necessary to achieve tribal sovereignty and racial equity for all.

Since 2016 she has partnered with the Brave Heart Society, a traditional Dakota women’s society, and the Yankton Sioux Tribe on a project to re-establish the inherent, and legal rights of the Yankton and other Oceti Sakowin tribes in the Missouri River Basin in South Dakota to regain co-management of the bio-region. She is a board member of IllumiNative, and chair of the board of NDN. She is a 2019 Roddenberry Fellow.

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