Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy is an Associate Professor of Native American Studies at Cal Poly Humboldt who researches Indigenous feminisms, California Indians, Environmental Justice, Traditional Ecological Knowledge and decolonization. She is the Co-Director of the NAS Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab & Traditional Ecological Knowledges Institute where she leads several research projects focused on the resurgence of Indigenous Science and place-based learning. This includes the "Food for Indigenous Futures Project" which looks at connections between food justice, food sovereignty, mental health, and substance abuse prevention for Native American Youth.

​She has also helped organize several community facing events like the Northern California #LandBack Symposium, the Water Advocacy & Water Protectors Certificate Program, the Humboldt Indigenous Foods Festival, and the California Indian Conference. Dr. Risling Baldy is also the Program Coordinator for the Masters of Social Science in Environment & Community.

Her book: We Are Dancing For You: Native feminisms and the revitalization of women's coming-of-age ceremonies received "Best First Book in Native American and Indigenous Studies" at the 2019 Native American Indigenous Studies Association Conference.

She received her Ph.D. in Native American Studies at UC Davis; her M.F.A. in Creative Writing from San Diego State University; and her B.A. in Psychology with a Specialization in Health and Development from Stanford University. ​ In 2007, Dr. Risling Baldy co-founded the Native Women's Collective, a nonprofit organization that supports the continued revitalization of Native American arts and culture. She is Hupa, Karuk, and Yurok and enrolled in the Hoopa Valley Tribe

A list of your publications and links to where we can find them:

Books:

• We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women's Coming-of-Age Ceremonies. University of Washington Press, 2018

Peer Reviewed:

• "Introduction: Indigenous Peoples and the Politics of Water." Special Issue. Cutcha Risling Baldy & Melanie Yazzie eds. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society, 7.1 (2018).
• "mini-k’iwh’e:n (For That Purpose—I Consider Things) (Re)writing and (Re)righting Indigenous Menstrual Practices to Intervene on Contemporary Menstrual Discourse and the Politics of Taboo" ​Cultural Studies↔ Critical Methodologies (2016): 1532708616638695.
• "The New Native Intellectualism: #ElizabethCookLynn, Social Media Movements, and the Millennial Native American Studies Scholar.” Wicazo Sa Review 31.1 (2016): 90-110.
• ​"Coyote is Not a Metaphor: On Decolonizing, Renaming and Reclaiming Coyote" Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education and Society, 4.1 (2015).
• "Why we gather: traditional gathering in native Northwest California and the future of bio-cultural sovereignty." Ecological Processes 2.1 (2013): 17.

Book Chapters:

• “Xo’ch Na:nahsdetł-te Survivance, Resilience and Unbroken Traditions in Northwest California” by Cutcha Risling Baldy & Kayla Begay Ka’m-t’em: A Journey toward Healing. Temecula, California: Great Oak Press. May 2019.
  

Fiction/Non-Fiction/Poetry:

• “Representation Matters.” North Coast Journal. October 3, 2019. https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/representation-matters/Content?oid=15371022
• “How We Let This Happen.” North Coast Journal. June 27, 2019. https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/how-we-let-this-happen/Content?oid=14525969
• “Genocide and Fugly Chairs.” North Coast Journal. April 11, 2019. https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/genocide-and-fugly-chairs/Content?oid=13800417
• “The G-O Road 30 Years Later.” News from Native California. September 17, 2018.
• "The Flower Dancers: Reviving Hupa coming-of-age ceremonies." North Coast Journal. August 2, 2018.
• "Don't Live in a Murder House." North Coast Journal. August 10, 2017.
• "Water is Life: The Flower Dance Ceremony" News from Native California, Volume 30, Issue 3, Spring 2017.
• “We Fight for the Land, the Earth, Everything: From Bears Ears to the High Country of California.” Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for Bears Ears, 2016. 
• "We Resist, We Survive: Leonard Peltier and Imprisoned Indians." teleSUR English. February 6, 2016, web.
• "Ten Days or Thoughts on That My Baby." As/Us Journal, Issue 5, December 6, 2015
• “Xoq’it-Ch’iswa:l On Her They Beat Time, A Flower Dance Is Held For Her: The Revitalization of the Women’s Coming-of-Age Ceremony Part Two.” Two Rivers Tribune, Volume 21, Issue 32, August 11, 2015. 
• “No:’olchwin-ding, No:’olchwin-te To Grow Old In A Good Way: The Hupa Flower Dance and Revitalization of Women’s Coming of Age Ceremonies in Native California.” Two Rivers Tribune, Volume 21, Issue 30, July 28, 2015. 
• “Hupa Language Thrives Through Online Resources.” Two Rivers Tribune, Volume 21, Issue 30, July 28, 2015.         
• "A Poem for Frog Woman." News from Native California, Volume 27, Number 4, 2014
• "Why I Teach The Walking Dead in my Native Studies Classes." Nerds of Color. April 24, 2014, web. 
• "On Separating Veronica Brown from her father Dusten Brown." Native News Online. September 27,2 014, web.