Note: Tanaya Winder describes herself as "a writer, educator, motivational speaker, and performance poet from the Southern Ute, Duckwater Shoshone, and Pyramid Lake Paiute" , raised on the Southern Ute reservation in Ignacio, Colorado. Received an MFA in creative writing from the University of New Mexico. Co-founded As/Us: A Space for Women of the World and founded Dream Warriors, an Indigenous artist management company.