Jaquetta Shade-Johnson

Jaquetta Shade-Johnson (PhD, Michigan State University) is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and an Assistant Professor in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric (PWR) and the Department of English at University of Colorado Boulder. Her research at the intersections of cultural rhetorics, Indigenous studies, digital storytelling, and environmental humanities is primarily focused on how Indigenous communities make meaning through rhetorical, embodied, material, and storied relationships with the land. She currently serves on the Executive Committee for the Conference on College Composition and Communication (CCCC) and on the editorial boards for Peitho, the journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric and Composition, and Spark: a 4C4Equality Journal, a digital, open-access, peer-reviewed journal addressing activism in writing, rhetoric, and literacy studies. Jaquetta is a member of the Digadatseli’i ᏗᎦᏓᏤᎵᎢ Cherokee Scholars association and is a founding member of the Cherokee Collective for Ecologies and Foodways (CCEF).