Dr. Charlotte Coté
Dr. Charlotte Coté (Tseshaht/Nuu-chah-nulth) is the Living Breath Symposium founder and planning committee chair. Dr. Coté is a Professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington. She also serves as co-editor for the UW Press’ Indigenous Confluences Series. She is the co-chair of the UW’s wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Intellectual House Planning/Advisory Committee.
Dr. Coté has dedicated her personal and academic life to creating awareness around Indigenous health and wellness and in working with/for Indigenous peoples and communities in revitalizing their traditional foodways and achieving food security and justice. Dr. Coté is the author of A Drum in one Hand, A Sockeye in the Other. Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast (UW Press, 2022), Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors. Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions (UW Press, 2010), and numerous other publications.
Dr. Coté serves on the boards for the UW’s Center for American Indian/Indigenous Studies (CAIIS), the Na-ah Illahee Fund, and the NDN Collective Northwest Coast. She also served on the boards of the Potlatch Fund and the Burke Museum.