Lisa King (she/her) is an associate professor of rhetoric, writing, and linguistics in the Department of English at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and one of the co-chairs of the American Indian Caucus of NCTE/CCCC. Her research and teaching interests are interdisciplinary, based on cultural rhetorics and contemporary Native American and Indigenous rhetorics. More specifically, she focuses on the rhetorics of cross-cultural sites such as Indigenous museums and cultural centers, developing cross-cultural pedagogies through Indigenous rhetorics. She is the coeditor of Survivance, Sovereignty, and Story: Teaching American Indian Rhetorics (2015) and author of Legible Sovereignties: Rhetoric, Representations, and Native American Museums (2017). Her current work focuses on decolonization as part of the relationship between public Indigenous self-representation and place, including museum sites in Europe, but also at home at UTK’s McClung Museum as co-curator of the Native Nations-based exhibition “Homelands: Connecting to Mounds through Native Art.”
Andrea Riley Mukavetz (she/her/kwe) is the community engagement manager for Owaashtinong (Grand Rapids), the second largest city in Michigan. Prior to this role, she was an associate professor at Grand Valley State University. Her research draws from and models Indigenous paradigms, specifically from Anishinaabeg communities. She coauthored You Better Go See Geri: An Odawa Elder’s Life of Recovery and Resilience (2021) and published more than fifteen articles and chapters related to Indigenous and cultural rhetorics. She is a member of Chippewas of the Thames.