Chag Lowry
Executive Director
Chag Lowry, M.Ed. is of Yurok, Maidu, and Achumawi Native ancestry from northern California. His imprint Original Voices produces comics and books with a focus on Native stories and history. He is the writer of the science fiction comic book, Reflections, with art by Eli Hyder, the writer of the water advocacy comic Where the Water Flows Strong with art by Weshoyot Alvitre (Tongva), the co-writer of the basketry comic My Sisters with art by Weshoyot Alvitre, the writer of the western comic Follow the Water with art by Rahsan Ekedal, and the writer of the award-winning graphic novel Soldiers Unknown with art by Rahsan Ekedal and published by Great Oak Press. Soldiers Unknown is endorsed by the Yurok Tribe, the United States World War One Centennial Commission and the American Indian Veterans Association of Southern California. Chag directed multiple programs for the PBS documentary series titled Indigenous Living Biographies and is the author of The Original Patriots: Northern California Indian Veterans of World War Two and The Original Patriots: California Indian Veterans of the Korean War. He has presented numerous times at the San Diego Comic-Con and is currently working on a World War Two comic anthology and a Native horror comic anthology.
Katie Walkiewicz
Faculty Director
Katie Walkiewicz (walk-uh-wits) is s an enrolled citizen of Cherokee Nation/ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ and an Associate Professor of Literature at UC San Diego. She is also the author of Reading Territory: Indigenous and Black Freedom, Removal, and the 19th-Century State (University of North Carolina Press 2023) and co-edited the anthology The People Who Stayed: Southeastern Indian Writing After Removal with Geary Hobson and Janet McAdams (University of Oklahoma Press 2010). Her writing has appeared in NAIS: Journal of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, J19: Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists, ASAP/Journal, American Literature, American Literary History, the Rumpus, Walt Whitman Quarterly, and elsewhere. While she has written extensively about Native print culture, she is also a lover of Indigenous speculative fiction, comics, and all things horror.
Council of Futurists
Theresa Ambo (Co-Founder)
Keolu Fox (Co-Founder)
Wayne Yang (Co-Founder)
Sara Aarons
Boatema Boateng
Gloria Chacon
Caroline Collins
Danielle Dean
Casandra Lopez
Kelema Moses
Heather Poncetti-Daly
LaWana Richmond
Manuel Shvartzberg Carrio
Kelly Stewart
Eva Trujillo
