Dina Gilio-Whitaker

Dina Gilio-Whitaker, USA

Lecturer
of American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos,
and an independent educator in American Indian environmental policy and
other issues.

Dina
Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) is a lecturer of American
Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos, and an
independent educator in American Indian environmental policy and other
issues. At CSUSM she teaches courses on environmentalism and American
Indians, traditional ecological knowledge, religion and philosophy,
Native women’s activism, American Indians and sports, and
decolonization. She also works within the field of critical sports
studies, examining the intersections of indigeneity and the sport of
surfing. As a public intellectual, Dina brings her scholarship into
focus as an award-winning journalist as well, with her work appearing at
Indian Country Today, the Los Angeles Times, High Country News,
Time.com, Slate, History.com, Bioneers, Truthout, the Pacifica Network,
Grist, and many more. Dina is the author of two books; the most recent
award-winning As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for
Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock. She is
currently under contract with Beacon Press for a new book under the
working title Illegitimate Nation: Privilege, Race, and Accountability
in the U.S. Settler State.