Dr. Sarah Biscarra Dilley (yaktitʸutitʸu yaktiłhini [Northern Chumash]) is a multidisciplinary artist, language worker, and educator serving as the Director of Indigenous Programs and Relationality at Forge Project. Relating land and beings throughout nitspu tiłhin ktitʸu, the State of California, and places joined by shared water, their written and visual texts connect extractive industries, absent treaties, and enclosure to emphasize movement, relational landscapes and embodied sovereignties. Their text-based, curatorial, educational, and visual work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. While they listen, learn, and know from their homelands, their family, their kinships, and their language, they hold a PhD in Native American Studies from University of California, Davis.

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