Red Hoop Talk EP 33: VICTORIA SWEET, Anishinaabe
This Sunday LIVE on #REDHOOPTALK, we will visit with Victoria Sweet, Anishinaabe, and the Director of Indigenous Communities Grantmaking at the NoVo Foundation. She has been actively engaged in advocacy on behalf of Indigenous communities and Native Nations for almost twenty years. Her community efforts to address violence against Native women and girls led her to attend the Pre-Law Summer Institute at the American Indian Law Center in Albuquerque and from there to Michigan State University College of Law where she graduated with a certificate in Indigenous Law and Policy. Victoria researched the links between climate change, extractive industry development, and human security risks for Indigenous women and girls in the circumpolar Arctic and has been invited to speak on these topics in Finland, Iceland, Canada and around the U.S. She has published articles raising awareness about these connections in both domestic and international journals.
Prior to joining NoVo, she worked with The Whitener Group, traveling to rural Alaska Native villages providing Tribal court assessments and assisting with justice system development. She also worked as a Senior Program Attorney at the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges where she created technical assistance materials and trained both state and Tribal court judges on a variety of issues including domestic child sex trafficking, violence against Native women and girls, and Indian Child Welfare Act compliance. Victoria is a member of the Minnesota State Bar and serves on a number of advisory boards and initiatives for organizations working to create systemic changes to improve the lives of Native children, families, and survivors of violence and exploitation. She is the mom of 3 kids and proud Nokomis (Grandma) of 2 grandkids.
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