NDN Collective Communications & Narrative

NDN Collective is the most ambitious, systemic effort to empower Indigenous communities in the history of philanthropy.

Communications Associate Brandy Calabaza Jicarilla Apache

Brandy Calabaza (She/Her), Communications Associate, is Jicarilla Apache and Kewa Pueblo from Northern New Mexico. Brandy supports the Communications and Narrative Team with all aspects of content creation, targeted outreach, copywriting, and overall management of internal communications systems. Throughout and following college, she continued to build on her professional development holding various positions in her Tribal community, including working with the Nations courts in the prosecutorial setting, teaching language classes to children, and working with and empowering Native Youth. Brandy holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Native American and Indigenous Studies from Fort Lewis College and is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Indigenous Peoples Law from the University of Oklahoma.

Recent stories by Brandy Calabaza

Stories The ‘Defend’ Mural Debuts at the NDN Collective Headquarters

‘Defend’ mural project comes full circle as Artist Votan Henriquez completes large-scale mural painting outside of the NDN Collective Headquarters in Rapid City, South Dakota

Stories “A New Era of Indigenous Policy and Power”: Totem Pole to Protect Sacred Sites Delivered to Deb Haaland in Washington

A collaborative effort to protect sacred sites while uplifting the need for free, prior and informed consent of Indigenous Peoples on lands routinely targeted and desecrated by industrial extraction.