Taté Walker, they/them

Mniconjou Lakota | Enrolled Member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe of South Dakota 

Board Secretary, 2022-Current

Taté Walker is an award-winning Two Spirit storyteller. Their book, Indigenous Voices, releases Fall 2025 from Wellfleet Press. Walker is also the author of The Trickster Riots (Abalone Mountain Press 2022) and has written for outlets like The Nation, Pipe Wrench, Apartment Therapy, Subaru Drive, Everyday Feminism, Native Peoples, Indian Country Today, and ANMLY. They are also featured in several anthologies: FIERCE: Essays by and about Dauntless Women, South Dakota in Poems, W.W. Norton's Everyone's an Author, and Good Eats: 32 Writers on Eating Ethically (NYU Press, 2024). Taté uses their 20+ years of experience working for daily newspapers, social justice organizations, and tribal education systems to organize students and professionals around issues of critical cultural competency, anti-racism/anti-bias, and inclusive community building. They live with their family in Phoenix, AZ.