Greg Sarris is an accomplished writer, university professor, and tribal leader serving his sixteenth term as Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. Sarris is also a producer, playwright, and the author of several books, including the award-winning How a Mountain Was Made (2017), Kirkus Book Prize finalist Becoming Story (2022), and Grand Avenue (1995), which was adapted to an HBO film, co-produced by Sarris with Robert Redford. He is co-executive producer of Joan Baez: I Am A Noise (2023) and his most recent play, Citizen (2023) debuted at San Francisco’s Word for Word Theater and was lauded as a “lush […] linguistic feast” by the San Francisco Chronicle. He is board chair of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, a member of the University of California’s Board of Regents, and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
2025 Inside Ideas
Moderator – Native Voices: Youth Writers from the 2025 Graton Writing Project
Moderator – Redefining Home
2025 Headliners
Speaker – “Writing as an Other”
