Media Mentions

News Roundup, The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Skoll Foundation Promotes Marla Blow to CEO

Tracy Canard Goodluck has been named executive director of the Center for Native American Youth at the Aspen Institute.

Staff, Mvskoke Creek, Oneida Nation of Wisconsin

News Roundup, Politico

Playbook: Circling the wagons

Tracy Canard Goodluck is joining the Aspen Institute’s Center for Native American Youth as executive director.

Staff, Mvskoke Creek, Oneida Nation of Wisconsin

Press Release, The Aspen Institute

The Center for Native American Youth Welcomes New Executive Director

Tracy L. Canard Goodluck joins the national organization working alongside Native youth across the country to improve their health, safety and overall well-being.

Staff, Mvskoke Creek, Oneida Nation of Wisconsin

News Roundup, National Native News

CNAY has announced its newest cohort of the Remembering Our Sisters Fellowship

Remembering Our Sisters, Fellows

Press Release, Native Oklahoma Magazine

Young Indigenous Women & Femme Leaders Speak Out Against Epidemic of Injustice

Remembering Our Sisters, Fellows

Article / Interview, College Park Here & Now, Maryland

UMD student creates map of missing, murdered Native Americans

University of Maryland (UMD) student Linaly Miyamoto created an interactive map, which pinpoints the locations where 500 or so indigenous women have gone missing or been murdered in the United States.

“I think seeing my grandma struggling with her indigenous identity … really was my reason for joining the fellowship,” Miyamoto said. “When you complain about something, but do nothing about it, then I don’t see a reason why you should not be doing anything.”

Remembering Our Sisters, Fellows, Coast Salish Cowichan

News Roundup, Ka Wai Ola, Hawaii

Ching a Champion of Change | News Brief

Joshua Ching was named a 2025 “Champion for Change” by the Center for Native American Youth (CNAY) at the Aspen Institute. The 2025 cohort includes five Indigenous youth who are leading impactful change in their communities.

Champions for Change, Fellows, Kanaka Maoli

News Roundup, Marin Independent Journal, California

Milestones: Good news about Marin people

The Center for Native American Youth at the Aspen Institute named Lotte Whistling Bird Kizer, of Novato, one of its Brave Heart Fellows for 2025. The Brave Heart Fellowship provides pathways for youth leaders to enhance their skills as protectors of Native lands, waterways and sacred sites, and stewards for food sovereignty. Kizer, a citizen of the Washoe Tribe of Lake Tahoe, plans to help restore wildlife habitats for native animals in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska.

Brave Heart Fellowship, Fellows, Washoe

Article / Interview / Radio, Northern California Public Radio, California

Local Indigenous youth selected for Brave Heart Fellowship

One of this year's Brave Heart Fellows is Alexio Lira, a Master's candidate in Data Science at UC Berkeley, and a member of the Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians. Lira is working on a project to help Indigenous communities with energy independence.

"I’m really looking forward to talking, learning from indigenous advocate scholars and policy leaders. My work specifically is looking to explore the potential of floating photovoltaic systems for deployment in Native American communities and shed some light onto the regulatory barriers that might be impeding that development."

Brave Heart Fellowship, Fellows, Staff, Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians

News Roundup, O'odham Action News, Arizona

Champions for Change Includes O’odham Woman

[p. 14] Lourdes Pereira was named to a 2025 cohort by the Center for Native American Youth at the Aspen Institute. Pereira is Tohono O’odham and HiaCed O’odham.

Champions for Change launched in 2013 and selects five inspirational young people, age 14 to 24, from across the country. Pereira is 24 and a graduate of Arizona State University. The other four Champs are from Hawai’i, Alaska, Michigan and Oklahoma.

Champions for Change, Fellows, HiaCed O’odham, Tohono O’odham