For Immediate Release
Contact: Agnes Portalewska, Communications Manager, Cultural Survival
agnes@cs.org
Kristen Mack, Media Contact, MacArthur Foundation, kmack@macfound.org
By Julie Post (CS Intern)
DEPARTMENT: Programs
REPORTS TO: Community Media Program Manager
OVERVIEW:
By Dev Kumar Sunuwar (Koĩts-Sunuwar, CS Staff)
Human trafficking is one of the most difficult issues to address in Nepal. It is a purposefully hidden practice, affecting and exploiting thousands of women, adolescent girls, and children. But despite its invisible nature, it abundantly shows that Indigenous women and girls are disproportionately affected by human trafficking and represent almost 70 percent of the cases.
After becoming the first Two-Spirit Indigenous couple to win The Amazing Race Canada, Anthony Johnson (Diné) and James Makokis (Saddle Lake Cree) are embarking on new ways to share their positivity and multifaceted identities through television.
“I reclaim happiness without losing indignation” - from the Maya Q’eqchi’ worldview
By María Mercedes Calel (Poqo’mchi')
By Rebecca Kirkpatrick (CS Intern)
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.
