multiplying our collective impact

Native Roots Network serves as a hub for community members to come together to build a better world. Through our work with youth leadership development, cultural exchanges, traditional and contemporary Native arts, ceremonial run delegations and community wellness projects we help our community maximize and multiply their efforts and impacts. When we work together the outcomes are greater than our individual efforts.

Our Native advocacy work evolved into the Native Roots Network following years of building relationships and projects that began in 2004 with the Native Youth Cultural Exchange. Guided by elders and ancestors, youth and parents as well as the need to find effective ways to contribute to Native community vitality and well-being, Native Roots Network is dedicated to creating and supporting the positive change we vision for future generations.

Native Roots Network Operations Staff

Miki‘ala Catalfano

(Hawaiian) Executive Director/ Board President | Co-Founder | Design & Digital Fabrication Lead / Graphic Designer, Artist / Co-Lab Shasta Member

**Leon Edmonds**

*(Wintun/Shasta)* Lands Manager | Advisory Board Member | Ceremonial Runner / Catalyzer / Co-Lab Shasta Member

Jonathon Freeman

*(Afro-Indigenous)* Co-Founder | Director of Strategy & Innovation / Photographer / Instigator / Co-Lab Shasta Member

Juventino Lievsay

*(Pit River / Wintu)* Changemaker Apprentice,
Indigenous Community Changemaker Apprenticeship Program / Co-Lab Shasta Member

**Michelle Radcliff-Garcia**

*(Wintu),* Board Secretary | Director of Culture & Programs / Culture Bearer / Wintu Language Revivalist-Teacher / Artist / Co-Lab Shasta Member

Michelle Weidman

*(Northern and Western European ancestry)* Operations Manager / Community Organizer / Writer / Artist / Co-Lab Shasta Member

Native Roots Board Members

**Radley Davis**

*(Pit River)* Board Treasurer | Culture Bearer / Pit River Language Organizer and Dance Leader / Artist, Co-Lab Shasta Member

**Brian Monongye**

*(Hopi)* Board Member | Fire Clan from the Village of Mungapi / Community organizer / Farmer / Artisan / Bears Ears Prayer Run Alliance Organizer

**Maika‘i Nash**

*(Hawaiian)* Board Member | Artistic/Music Director, Vocal Coach & Pianist

**Kenwani'cahee Ryan-Kravitz**

*(Pit River/Wintu)* Advisory Board Member | Culture Bearer, Wintu/Pit River Language Revival, Indigenous Advocacy

Native Roots Network (NRN) is a Native-led and grassroots 501(c)3 non-profit organization.