Ripple Effect: Positive Change Around the Sound podcast episode 4
WHAT:
Episode #4: Native Healing Through Homelessness with Nawiishtunmi Nightgun, Chief Traditional Officer of Chief Seattle Club
Presented by Mirror Stage, Ripple Effect: Positive Change Around the Sound amplifies the stories of local change-makers whose positive impact ripples across Puget Sound. Released monthly, each episode features a local change-maker working to build a better, more inclusive community—telling their story in their own words. Ripple Effect explores how the actions of a single individual ripple outward, shaping collective understanding. Every episode invites listeners to find out what brings our guests to this moment today, what drives and inspires them, and how to get involved.
WHO:
Nawiishtunmi Nightgun (she/her) is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation. She is a descendant of the Blackfeet Nation. Nawiishtunmi currently runs the traditional wellness department as the Chief Traditional Officer at Chief Seattle Club. Her role leads a team of traditional mental wellness staff, staff wellness, and gender-based violence team that will work individually and in group settings utilizing trauma informed mental health, cultural tools and practices to support the healing and wellness modalities that are centered in ancestral knowledge. Nawiishtunmi is a mother of three who gathers and harvests traditional foods/medicines with her family and participates in ceremony.
Nawiishtunmi previously has served as Co-Chair of the CEA Public Policy Committee, and as an Indian Policy Advisory Committee Delegate for Washington State as a tribal leader. A vocal advocate for ending homelessness and racial equity, she has presented on decolonizing colonialism, decolonizing data, and addressing the needs of our community during the pandemic in collaboration with the regional public health agency.
WHEN:
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Episodes drop monthly on the fourth Wednesday
WHERE:
Episodes are available on the Mirror Stage web site, Spotify, and all other major podcast platforms
ABOUT MIRROR STAGE
Originally founded in 1991, Mirror Stage is a nonprofit multidisciplinary arts company that believes the power of story and art holds the key to bringing people together in imagining and embodying a better future. We challenge assumptions, bias and prejudice, increasing equity and inclusion while encouraging more thoughtful reflection on today’s issues. Mirror Stage nurtures unique artistic voices, centering those who have been most oppressed by society’s inequitable systems and structures. Mirror Stage gets people talking, as well as thinking. Learn more about the history of Mirror Stage.
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