Welcome back friends, I'm Matika Wilbur, I'm from the Swinomish and Tulalop tribes.

I'm a mama, I'm a photographer, I'm a wifey now, I have a project called Project 562 and

I'm also the cohost of this fabulous podcast with Dr. Dr. Des Hi Des.

Hey folks, I'm Dr. Dr. Desi, I am a citizen of the Northern Shion nation and Chicana.

I'm a professor at UCLA, I direct the Data Warriors Lab, I'm a relative, I'm a researcher,

I'm a mama and it's so great to be back with all of you on another episode of All My Relations.

I'm really excited to be continuing this series, this is the third and final part of our series for this season.

And I think we come to a really special place here with this episode because we're thinking about Indigenous

sovereignty and black liberation and how those movements can work together for coalition building in real world

powerful ways. Absolutely, I mean, you know, there is a shared experience between Indigenous people,

surviving genocide, colonization, assimilation, all the things, right, we are still here.

There's a direct connection between that and all that black people have endured in this country.

Black people of African descent, right, folks being removed from their homelands and voluntarily

brought to this country enslaved, all to further the aims of racial capitalism and white supremacy.

And all the horrific issue that black peoples are continuing to have to endure, right, at the hands of white supremacy.

And so I think ultimately we have so much to gain from standing alongside and fighting alongside each other

and we have everything to lose from continuing to stay so disconnected and continuing to see our futures as separate.

So for this episode, we welcome Nikita Oliver. Nikita is the executive director of Creative Justice

and art-based healing space for youth and young adults. They hold a law degree from the University of

Washington and Nikita has been involved in organizing and supporting racial justice movements,

working at the intersection of arts, law and education for some time. I'm a huge fan of Nikita.

I've seen Nikita get in front of a crowd of people and rile them up and lead thousands into protests.

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