BIPOC Voices Presents Inés Hernández-Ávila Irvine Auditorium

Dr. Hernández-Ávila, Niimiipuu (Nez Perce)/Tejana, Professor Emerita, from the Department of Native American Studies at UC Davis is one of the six founders of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA). She’s an interdisciplinary literature and religious studies scholar, poet, visual artist and a member of Luk’upsíimey/The North Star Collective. Dr. Hernández-Ávila is a veteran social justice activist from the 1970s, addressing both Chicanx and American Indian issues. As a publicly engaged scholar, she has worked on bringing together Indigenous writers and thinkers from across the Americas. In April 2017, she received the Frank Bonilla Public Intellectual Award from the Latino Studies section of the Latin American Studies Association. She is passionate about the relationships between autonomy, spirit, ways of knowing and being, the arts, and social justice.