The conversation you will hear next is with Annita Lucchesi. Annita Lucchesi is a researcher, a scholar, and a community organizer of Cheyenne and Italian descent, currently living on Wiyot territory in Northern California. Annita’s community engaged work and scholarly projects are both inspired by her experiences as a survivor of violence, and stem from a commitment to uplift other Indigenous survivors and those impacted by violence. She is the founding Executive Director of Sovereign Bodies Institute, a non-profit research institute dedicated to community-engaged research on gender and sexual violence against Indigenous people. Sovereign Bodies Institute builds on Indigenous traditions of data gathering and knowledge transfer to create, disseminate, and put into action research on gender and sexual violence against Indigenous people.
Resources and links:
- Sovereign Bodies Institute: https://www.sovereign-bodies.org/
- Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy: https://books.google.com/books?id=mTX7DwAAQBAJ
- Savanna’s Act: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/statement-press-secretary-regarding-signing-savannas-act-not-invisible-act/
https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/227