Native Youth Rising

11/16/22 • 54 min

In this episode, we interview Danielle Frank, a Hoopa Valley Tribal Member, activist, and youth coordinator with Save California Salmon. Danielle shares her story of growing up in Hoopa Valley along the banks of the Trinity River near its confluence with the Klamath River. We hear how speaking up for her beliefs, community, and way of life helped her find her voice and become an empowered youth leader and public speaker. At nineteen years of age, some of her accomplishments include leading Native Youth programs, creating informed Native American curriculum for schools, assisting with California State legislation, being a featured Vogue climate activist, and a speaker at the United Nations Climate Change Summit COP 27.
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School Curriculum: Advocacy and Water Protection in Native California
Save California Salmon
DONATE- It is Native American Heritage Month and these funds go directly towards education events and travel funds for Northern California Native youth and Water Protectors, and Klamath Dam removal celebrations for our communities who have worked for 20 years to remove Klamath Dams.
Protect ICWA
Stop the Delta Tunnel Petition
Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival
Vogue Article

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Producer: Natalie Kilmer
Production Support: Carrie Tully, Kasil Willie, Kendall Crakow, Regina Chichizola
Podcast Music by Tony Bald, Adam Inguiez, and Danny Snyder
Musical break Clip: Maymi Preston-Donahue
Photograph of Danielle Frank by Carlos Jaramillo; Styled by Marcus Correa. Reprinted from Vogue

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School Curriculum: Advocacy and Water Protection in Native California
Save California Salmon
DONATE- It is Native American Heritage Month and these funds go directly towards education events and travel funds for Northern California Native youth and Water Protectors, and Klamath Dam removal celebrations for our communities who have worked for 20 years to remove Klamath Dams.
Protect ICWA
Stop the Delta Tunnel Petition
Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival
Vogue Article

Episode credits

Producer: Natalie Kilmer
Production Support: Carrie Tully, Kasil Willie, Kendall Crakow, Regina Chichizola
Podcast Music by Tony Bald, Adam Inguiez, and Danny Snyder
Musical break Clip: Maymi Preston-Donahue
Photograph of Danielle Frank by Carlos Jaramillo; Styled by Marcus Correa. Reprinted from Vogue

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Producer: Natalie Kilmer
Production Support: Kasil Willie and Kendall Crakow
Music by Tony Bald, Adam Inguiez, and Danny Snyder

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In this episode, we interview Laurel Firestone, a member of the State Water Resources Control Board. We learn about the organization and its work to ensure that every person in the state has a right to clean, safe, and affordable drinking water. We discuss how far we still have to go to meet California's Human Right to Water.

Governor Gavin Newsom appointed Laurel Firestone to the State Water Resources Control Board in February 2019. Prior to joining the Board, Laurel co-founded and co-directed, from 2006-2019, the Community Water Center, a statewide non-profit environmental justice organization based in California’s Central Valley and Central Coast. Her career has focused on building increased diversity, equity, and inclusivity into water decision-making.
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