ABOUT ME

Kimimila (she, her, hers) is Lakota from the Standing Rock Reservation in South Dakota and Ahtna Dené from Tazlina, Alaska. She has her MA in Teaching and has been in education since 2001 as both a middle and high school English teacher, and a Lakota language teacher. Currently, Kimimila is involved in several projects including co-creating and continuing to expand and develop the Mní Wichóni Nakíciziŋ Woúŋspe, the Defenders of the Water School, that was started during the NoDAPL Prayer Camps. Since Sovereignty is one of the goals of the Wounspe, Kimimila has started at the Indigenous Farm Hub as a Farmer in Residence to learn food sovereignty.

In addition, Kimimila has several projects and activities that keep her busy with her home community such as issues surrounding environmental racism, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, birth work, lactation consultation. and middle school sexual health education.