JOAQUIN MUÑOZ
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Advisory Committee member
During his time as a teacher in K-12 and postsecondary education, Joaquin’s desire to support others in the development of their intercultural competency and their passion for social justice grew. He has spent the past decade developing skills for this work by using methods that include Indigenous Circle Work, the Theatre of the Oppressed, various forms of art, and dialogue and literacy tools. He currently works as a faculty member in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, where he helps teacher candidates and licensure students develop capacities for working with diverse student populations in culturally responsive and humanizing ways. Joaquin also consults for several groups and organizations both nationally and internationally, including in Canada, Germany, and Mexico.
IYEKIYAPIWIŊ DARLENE ST. CLAIR Advisory Committee member Iyekiyapiwiŋ Darlene St. Clair is an associate professor at St. Cloud State University where she teaches American Indian Studies and directs the Multicultural Resource Center. Her work focuses on several areas: Dakota Studies; Native Nations of Minnesota; the integration of Native cultures, histories, and languages into curricula and educational institutions; the arts and cultural expressions of Native peoples; Dakota places and sacred sites; and anti-racist pedagogy. Darlene is Bdewakaŋtuŋwaŋ Dakota and a citizen of the Lower Sioux Indian Community in Minnesota. She is the project lead for the Mni Sóta Ma ḳoce Curriculum Project and coordinates the Native Studies Summer Workshop for Educators.
TLAHTOKI XOCHIMEH Advisory Committee member Tlahtoki Xochimeh (“Dr. T”) has taught a variety of courses in the Chicano & Latino studies department at the University of Minnesota’s College of Liberal Arts, including classes on critical theory, folklore, literature, and Indigenous peoples from around the world. His research interests include Indigenous health and healing, Chicana/o and Xicana/o cultural studies, and traditional Chinese medicine. In addition to teaching, Tlahtoki also works as a licensed acupuncturist, herbalist, and tui na practitioner at his private practice in Minneapolis, Blackstone Acupuncture. Tlahtoki is Nahua from Mexico. He has a doctor of philosophy degree in American studies with concentrations in Indigenous studies, Chicana/o studies, and history from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.
PROJECT TEAM
Joaquin Muñoz grew up on the Pascua Yaqui Indian Reservation in Arizona, where he learned early on about the complicated issues of race, culture, history, and oppression. Since then, his continuous work to develop an understanding of being a mixed-race person (Pascua Yaqui Indian and Mexican-American) would, and continues to, inform all aspects of his professional career.