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Join us in a conversation led by our Indigenous family in which we will discuss our our nuanced identities, our colonized history, loving our communities well, and following the Jesus Way. This is a discussion you won't want to miss because frankly, it's time for us to listen to this part of our family.
Read their amazing bios below:
Kathy Mitchell
Kathy Mitchell has been in the education field for 25+ years and is a school counselor at Chinle Junior High School. She has always strived to give back to her community and currently volunteers with Chinle Planting Hope, a grassroots non-profit organization, where she helps manage the “Read in Beauty” bookmobile and resource center. She believes her passion for reading has helped create many opportunities in her life and she aspires to share this opportunity with others. She has three grown children, and enjoys hiking, baking, traveling and spending time with her family. Kathy is from Manygoats Clan, born for Bitterwater, her paternal grandfather is from the Blackwood Streak Clan and her maternal grandfather is from the Bigwater Clan, this is how she addresses who she is as a Dine woman and her kinship with her Dine people.
Tricia Ivanoff
Tricia Ivanoff (Uqiliaq) is Iñupiat and Yup’ik from Uŋalaqłiq (Unalakleet), Alaska. She is currently pursuing her MACM and MBA at North Park Theological Seminary.
Delphina Johnson
Delphina Johnson grew up on the Navajo Reservation fully emersed in the culture and the religion of the Navajo people. Since coming to faith in college, her beliefs of having a strong cultural identity have led her on a lifelong journey of examining and critiquing the existing Indigenous missiology. For 25 years, Delphina and her husband Tom lived, worked and ministered in the heart of the reservation. With their three children, they now live in Flagstaff, a border town to the Navajo Reservation. Being Navigator staff for 21 years, she and her husband focus on discipling the next generation of Indigenous people and changing the narrative of what it means to be a follower of Christ as an Indigenous person.
Jennifer Hinson
Jennifer Hinson is the Executive Director of Grand Nation, Inc in Vinita, Oklahoma. Grand Nation is a nonprofit grassroots coalition helping people of all ages receive assistance while providing them with the necessary skills to make the change they seek. Grand Nation serves the communities of Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees, including Vinita, Grove, Jay, Afton, Ketchum, Langley, Miami, Bluejacket and Spavinaw.