K. Wayne Yang: Legacies of the Plantation

K. Wayne Yang is Professor of Ethnic Studies & Provost of John Muir College at the University of California, San Diego. He co-founded the Indigenous Futures Institute, which channels Indigenous knowledge through community-based participatory models to critically intervene in the production of knowledge, and imagine abundant futures that resolve pressing issues facing our climate, health, and environment. His main research collaborator is Indigenous Unangax̂ scholar Eve Tuck, James Weldon Johnson Professor and founding director of the Provostial Center for Indigenous Studies at New York University. Together they edit the book series Indigenous and Decolonizing Studies in Education with Routledge. They have several participatory action research projects with the Land Relationships Super Collective, which consists of community organizations engaged in land-based projects. He completed his Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Studies in Education at the University of California, Berkeley.