Trident Author Series: Hilary Giovale & Dr. Anita Sanchez

​​Hilary Giovale is a mother, writer, community organizer, and facilitator who lives on Hopi, Diné, Apache, and Havasupai land in Flagstaff, Arizona. A ninth-generation American settler, she is descended from Celtic, Germanic, Nordic, and Indigenous peoples of Ancient Europe. Hilary seeks to follow Indigenous and Black leadership in support of human rights, environmental justice, and equitable futures. As an active reparationist, her work is guided by intuition, love, and relationships. She divests from whiteness and bridges divides with truth, healing, apology, and forgiveness. She is the author of the award-winning book . Learn more about her work at goodrelative.com.

“Hilary Giovale initiates white, European-descended people into the work of stepping into their collective power to dream and to build a different way of living. She provides knowledge and actions white settlers can use to reclaim their full humanity.” - Dr. Anita Sanchez, Nahua (Aztec and Toltec), Award-Winning Author of The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times

“In a world built on and still profiting from slavery, genocide, as well as other forms of incomprehensible settler violence, Hilary offers the most sane advice - to lean into that which gives life: community, our planet, and the ways of being interconnected.” - Dr. David Ragland, Co-Founder and Co-ED, The Truth Telling Project; Director, Grassroots Reparations Campaign; Lecturer on Reparations as Spiritual Practice, Harvard Divinity School

Dr. Anita Sanchez: Anita Sanchez, PhD, Nahua (Aztec), Toltec and Mexican American, is a consultant, trainer, coach and speaker to Fortune 500 companies, education and non-profit organizations. For decades Anita bridges indigenous wisdom and science for individual to societal renewal focusing on leadership, diversity, inclusion, belonging and cultural transformation.www.SanchezTennis.com Board member of Bioneers and member of the Evolutionary Leaders and Transformational Leadership Council. Anita is an Elder Council member of The Wellbeing Project, Wisdom Weavers of the World, Earth Rise Collective and the Fire Circle Earth. Author of seven books including international award-winning book, The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times, Simon & Schuster. www.FourSacredGifts.com Recent awards include 2022 Mogul’s Top 100 DEI Leaders, 2020 Conscious Company Media “World Changing Woman” and 2020 World Woman’s Foundation “Woman of the Hour” #SheisMyHero campaign to inspire one million girls to live their dreams and leadership. Anita leads an annual journey into the sacred headwaters of the Amazon each year.

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