Michelle Y. Hurtubise is a Visual Anthropology Ph.D. candidate at Temple University and a Nia Tero strategist researching narrative sovereignty, diverse festival networks, and BIPOC creator support systems through the development of Kin Theory, a global Indigenous media makers database, the 4th World Media Lab, and the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival (with a Fulbright Fellowship in 2022-2023). With an interdisciplinary background in art and activism, she did human rights and media work in Rio de Janeiro as part of her Master’s thesis at New York University, received an MFA from the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa, worked with the Center for Artistic Activism, and with the Center for Media, Culture and History.

Selected Publications

• 2022. “Indigenizing towards co-liberation joy through BIPOC film festivals and sovereign media making.” The Projector: A Journal of Film, Media, and Culture, “Community Media-Making Practices and Aesthetics: Potentials and Pitfalls” 22, no. 2 (Summer). https://www.theprojectorjournal.com/co-liberation-joy. 
• 2021. “Celebrating Indigenous National Cinemas and Narrative Sovereignty through the Creation of Kin Theory, an Indigenous Media Makers Database.” New Horizons in English Studies, no. 6: 160-174. http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/nh.2021.6.160-174. 
• 2021. “SGaawaay K‘uuna: Edge of the Knife, Indigenous Language Revitalization.” Proa: Revista de Anthropologia e Arte, “Cinema indígena: passado, presente e futuro” (Journal of Anthropology and Art, “Indigenous Cinema: present, past and future”) 1, no. 11 (July 22): 385-390. https://ojs.ifch.unicamp.br/index.php/proa/article/view/4132.