Michelle Schenandoah

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Founder

Michelle Schenandoah is founder of Rematriation, a Haudenosaunee women-led nonprofit organization based in Syracuse, New York, and traditional member of the Onʌyota':aka (Oneida) Nation Wolf Clan.

A trained lawyer and a visionary for change, Michelle creates space for Indigenous voices to be honored. Most recently, Michelle directed and produced Rematriated Voices, a first-of-its-kind five-part talk that premiered on New York PBS affiliate WCNY. The series brings together some of the most influential Indigenous voices of our time to share knowledge, values, and solutions urgently needed in a world grappling with division, ecological crisis, and social upheaval.

Michelle was a Soros Open Societies Equality Fellow and a MIT SOLVE Indigenous Communities Fellow, and presented as a spiritual advisor to the Pope in the First Nations Delegation at the Vatican that prompted his apology regarding Indian Residential Schools.