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Alexis Bunten

Alexis Bunten, (Unangan/Yup’ik) co-directs the Bioneers Indigeneity Program. She has served as a manager, media-maker, consultant and applied researcher for Indigenous, social and environmental programming for over twenty years. Bunten’s areas of expertise include Indigenous economic development, organizational decolonization, and cross-cultural communications. Bunten has received nominations and awards from the US National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Bristol Bay Native Corporation, and the Native American Film and Television Awards, among many others. In addition to publishing widely about Indigenous and environmental issues in academic and mainstream media outlets, Bunten’s 2015 book, “So, how long have you been Native?” Life as an Alaska Native Tour Guide won the Alaska Library Association Award for its originality, and depth. The follow up anthology, Indigenous Tourism Movements, was published by the University of Toronto Press in 2018. Her picture book Keepunumuk: Weeâchumun’s Thanksgiving Story, was co-authored with Danielle Greendeer and Anthony Perry. Bunten lives in Monterey, California with her husband, daughter, three dogs, cat, and lizard.

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