Lead: Dr. Kevin Bonine, Director, UArizona AIRES Education Initiative
- Award Date: Jun 2022
- Award Amount: $10,000
- Type: Tribal Resilience Initiative - Native Pathways
- Duration: 1 year
- Status: Ongoing
The Indigenous Correspondents Program (ICP), a nascent partnership between UArizona and Planet Forward, aims to support journalistic, critical, and strategic storytelling to amplify the voices of Indigenous students and professionals working on finding solutions to the growing social and environmental challenges facing Indigenous communities, including water access/quality, health care inequality, education, and discrimination.
Through short-form creative non-fiction, the ICP supports the co-creation of new resonant narratives of the human experience challenged by socio-environmental issues by bringing together Indigenous oral traditions and digital literature. In doing so, the program invites Indigenous scholars to defy mainstream discourses and propose new perspectives on how to elevate the dignity of all human beings - and how to connect all humans to the planet and ecosystems that support them.