4th Annual Indigenous Education Symposium

Sandra Yellowhorse is Kinyaa’aanii (Towering House People) born of the French of the Diné Nation (Navajo). She is a mother and auntie to powerful Kinyaa’aani people who are her life’s joy and are her greatest teachers. Sandra is a Critical Indigenous Disability Studies scholar and community-based researcher with Waipapa Taumata Rau (The University of Auckland) in Aotearoa New Zealand. She works across international Indigenous communities from Turtle Island to Aotearoa to advance Indigenous family and first-person narratives of love to reframe understandings of disability and autism. She is the guest editor for the upcoming Special Issue: Indigeneity and Disability published by the Wicazo Sa Review, and has been featured in numerous podcasts, and the Disability Visibility Project.