Dr. Charlotte Coté (Tseshaht/Nuu-chah-nulth) (Co-Founder and Planning Committee Chair)
Dr. Charlotte Coté is a Professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Washington. She also serves as editor for the UW Press’ Indigenous Confluences Series. Dr. Coté has dedicated her personal and academic life to creating awareness around Indigenous health and wellness issues and in working with Indigenous peoples and communities in revitalizing their traditional foodways. Dr. Coté is the author of Spirits of Our Whaling Ancestors. Revitalizing Makah and Nuu-chah-nulth Traditions (UW Press, 2010). Her current book, A Drum in one Hand, A Sockeye in the Other. Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast (UW Press, 2022) explores how traditional foods play a major role in physical, emotional, spiritual, and dietary wellness.
Dr. Coté serves on the Na-ah Illahee Fund Board, the NDN Collective Northwest Coast Advisory Board, the UW’s Center for American Indian/Indigenous Studies (CAIIS) Board, and chairs the UW’s wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ Advisory Committee, She also served on the Potlatch Fund Board and the Burke Museum’s Native American Advisory Board.