Sutton King, MPH | Co-Founder, Co-Director | Menominee/Oneida
Ariel Richer, LMSW (PhD candidate) | Co-Founder, Co-Director | Venezuela/Trinidad & Tobago
Ariel Richer, LMSW (PhD candidate) | Co-Founder, Co-Director | Venezuela/Trinidad & Tobago
Sutton King, MPH, Nāēqtaw-Pianakiw (comes first woman), is the co-founder, president and co-director of UIC. Afro-Indigenous of the Menominee and Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, she holds a BA in Psychology with a minor in sociology from the College of Mount Saint Vincent and a Master in Public Health with a concentration in Global Health fr
Sutton King, MPH, Nāēqtaw-Pianakiw (comes first woman), is the co-founder, president and co-director of UIC. Afro-Indigenous of the Menominee and Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, she holds a BA in Psychology with a minor in sociology from the College of Mount Saint Vincent and a Master in Public Health with a concentration in Global Health from NYU School of Global Public Health. Living on unceded territory of the Siwanoy (The Bronx) for over a decade, she is an internationally recognized Indigenous rights activist, social entrepreneur, and published researcher dedicated to developing and scaling innovative solutions to improve Indigenous health equity across sectors. Her focus centers access benefit sharing and culturally appropriate methodologies within technology, healthcare and business.
In 2020, Sutton was named a New York visionary and nominated as a David Prize finalist. She is a MIT Indigenous Solve fellow and a 3x NYU Fellow participating in the NYU ignite alpha and beta fellowships. In 2021, she was named an NYU Female Founder and “one of the 100 most influential people in psychedelics” by Psychedelic Invest and PsychedStudio. In 2022, Business Insider recognized her as one of the 16 most influential women shaping Psychedelics.
Early in her career, in partnership with Kognito, the DOJ and Indian Country Child Trauma Center, she led the development of the first culturally tailored trauma-informed simulation training law enforcement professionals how to engage with tribal youth. She implemented this programming as well as suicide prevention technology in eighty different tribes across the country. Following that, she joined the New York Indian Council, the Urban Indian Health Program of NYC as the Director of health and wellness. Currently, she is the Co-Founder of ShockTalk, a culturally tailored telemental health platform that facilitates culturally appropriate patient-provider relationships for Indigenous communities. She joins the Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund as a Program Manager and Bridge Maker sitting on the operations committee. She facilitates a relationship between the Psychedelic Space and Indigenous traditional cultures that centers Indigenous sovereignty. Through her consulting business, Sutton King LLC, she advises organizations ranging from startup companies to philanthropies on stakeholder models and access benefit and sharing through social impact investment and giving.
In her role as an advocate, she sits on the Sovereign Bodies Institute Survivors’ Leadership Council, made up of Indigenous survivors of trafficking and survival sex work from across North America. This council was put together to advocate for victims and survivors, provide peer support to movement leaders who are survivors, and create a platform for survivor voices, so that the world can learn directly from us. She also serves as a Member of the Natives Working Well in Philanthropy (NWWP) (Formerly Native Program Officer (NPO)) Planning Group.
Ariel Richer, LMSW (PhD candidate) | Co-Founder, Co-Director | Venezuela/Trinidad & Tobago
Ariel Richer, LMSW (PhD candidate) | Co-Founder, Co-Director | Venezuela/Trinidad & Tobago
Ariel Richer, LMSW (PhD candidate) | Co-Founder, Co-Director | Venezuela/Trinidad & Tobago
Ariel Richer is a co-founder and co-director at Urban Indigenous Collective. She is Afro-Indigenous and white. She is a descendant of the Carib Indians, the Indigenous people of Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela. Ariel is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University School of Social Work working within the Social Intervention Group (SIG),
Ariel Richer is a co-founder and co-director at Urban Indigenous Collective. She is Afro-Indigenous and white. She is a descendant of the Carib Indians, the Indigenous people of Trinidad and Tobago and Venezuela. Ariel is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University School of Social Work working within the Social Intervention Group (SIG), under the direction of Associate Professor Louisa Gilbert. Her focus is on intimate partner violence and access to relevant services for Black and Indigenous women who experience structural stigma related to drug use, involvement in the criminal-legal system, sexuality, and race. Her work is grounded in principles of community-based participatory research, as she works collaboratively with Black and Indigenous communities.
Previously, she worked as an Impact Evaluator at the Administration for Native Americans where she worked directly with community-based organizations developing logic models, evaluation plans, data collection tools, and processes at a community-specific level and across a diverse set of communities. She is fiercely committed to addressing gender-based issues at large, especially gender-based violence, and has over seven years of experience within domestic violence organizations, sexual assault resource centers, and economic enhancement programs for survivors of trafficking and domestic violence. She earned her Master of Science in Social Work, Social Enterprise Administration from Columbia University School of Social work in 2015 and is a Licensed Master Social Worker.
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Tati Cosper | Grants Development & Communication Associate | Mvskoke Creek Nation
Tati Cosper | Grants Development & Communication Associate | Mvskoke Creek Nation
Tati Cosper | Grants Development & Communication Associate | Mvskoke Creek Nation
Tati is a Mvskoke Creek Nation citizen from Kansas and has a robust background working with immigrant communities and non-profits while having lived experience with issues surrounding hunger and poverty. Tati achieved a Bachelor's Degree in Cultural Anthropology with a minor in Philosophy in 2019. While in school, Tati worked at the Inter
Tati is a Mvskoke Creek Nation citizen from Kansas and has a robust background working with immigrant communities and non-profits while having lived experience with issues surrounding hunger and poverty. Tati achieved a Bachelor's Degree in Cultural Anthropology with a minor in Philosophy in 2019. While in school, Tati worked at the International Support Services office offering basic immigration advice to international students while working at the Spencer Museum of Art as an assistant archivist and student administrative assistant. Tati also volunteered at the Watkins Museum of History in the archives and became involved in on-campus Indigenous student groups.
Since graduation, Tati has been living in New York City and was an AmeriCorps VISTA fellow at the Queer Detainee Empowerment Project writing grants, fundraising, and doing various communications projects including writing the monthly newsletter and establishing the blog. Tati now works with Hunger Free America doing research and capacity building tasks and works with Urban Indigenous Collective writing grants, doing various communications projects, and helping out wherever else there is a need. In their spare time Tati likes to read, do photography, hiking, yoga, exploring the city, and expanding their record collection.
Austin Serio | IT Manager | Chicoran Shakori
Tati Cosper | Grants Development & Communication Associate | Mvskoke Creek Nation
Tati Cosper | Grants Development & Communication Associate | Mvskoke Creek Nation
Austin is a member of the Chicoran Shakori tribe of South Carolina. As part of the Great Migration of the 60s, some Shakori and other peoples of color walked away from sharecropping by migrating to the northeast “for the good union jobs”. Growing up as a Two-Spirit urban native in the Simsbury area of Hartford, Austin has found himself a
Austin is a member of the Chicoran Shakori tribe of South Carolina. As part of the Great Migration of the 60s, some Shakori and other peoples of color walked away from sharecropping by migrating to the northeast “for the good union jobs”. Growing up as a Two-Spirit urban native in the Simsbury area of Hartford, Austin has found himself at powerful intersections between the forces of Technology and Globalization. During and after pursuing his degree in Technology and Globalization at NYU Gallatin, Austin continued to enhance his Product Design skills as the Chicoran Shakori Tribal Web Developer and the Lead Product Designer at Up2Code, ZED Aerospace, and Blue World Inc. While pursuing his degree at Gallatin, Austin worked for Apple at one of their HQ locations, and observed the structural changes presently roiling the global economy firsthand. Finding himself at another powerful global crossroads, Austin is currently focused on the intersections between Indigenous communities, Sustainability, and Product Design.
Austin@urbanindigenouscollective.org
Saira Coye-Huhn | MMIP Program Associate | Belizean Yucatec Maya
Tati Cosper | Grants Development & Communication Associate | Mvskoke Creek Nation
Saira Coye-Huhn | MMIP Program Associate | Belizean Yucatec Maya
Saira Coye-Huhn is Afro-Indigenous (Belizean Yucatec Maya) and white. They are a senior at NYU and are co-majoring in Global Public Health and Anthropology and minoring in Native American & Indigenous Studies and Chemistry on the pre-law track. At NYU, she serves as the President of the Native American and Indigenous Student Group advoca
Saira Coye-Huhn is Afro-Indigenous (Belizean Yucatec Maya) and white. They are a senior at NYU and are co-majoring in Global Public Health and Anthropology and minoring in Native American & Indigenous Studies and Chemistry on the pre-law track. At NYU, she serves as the President of the Native American and Indigenous Student Group advocating to protect the health, community, and rights of Indigenous students. They also serve as Rap Chair for the Academic Achievement Program leading a discussion forum for BIPOC students. She plans to pursue a law degree to focus on leveraging law and policy to benefit Indigenous peoples both domestically and internationally.