He holds degrees from Yale and UMass Boston, and has worked on wilderness trail crews, teaching elementary school, and at an edtech startup. His comedy-horror short “One Gotta Go” was featured in the AV Club, his humor writing has been published in the New Yorker online, and his podcast “Please Save Me” is the world’s only recap show devoted to a nonexistent television series. Before grad school, they cut their teeth in the industry as a reader for Intellectual Property Group (IPG) and worked on numerous web series and short films as an on-set photographer and PA, and in 2017 they earned their MFA from USC's John Wells Division of Writing for Screen & Television, graduating with a thesis in one-hour television drama.īenjamin Flores, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewaīenjamin Flores is a writer, filmmaker, and performer from Idaho and a proud member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa. State Department and Microsoft alongside industry professionals at the university. They joined the staff at the USC School of Cinematic Arts in Media Arts + Practice in 2013 where they worked on numerous high-level grant funded projects with collaborators from NASA, the U.S. In 2011, they received a BFA in Fine Art with an emphasis in Photography from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston, MA. As a member of the LGBTQIA+ community who hails from a mixed Native, Ashkenazi Jewish & Caucasian background, much of their work explores themes of gender roles, sexuality and orientation, femme identity and the complexities around a diverse background they often weave pieces of mythology (both Native and non-Native) and animal imagery into their writing. Jena Carter, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is a writer based in Los Angeles. Kristen lives on the San Pasqual reservation, where she is a descendant, with her husband and two children, amongst her whole family. Kristen’s hope is to help tell Indigenous stories that resonate within our community and push forward a more modernized vision of Indigenous people to show we are still here and thriving. She has dreamed of becoming a writer since she was a young girl, first wanting to write novels, then discovering screenwriting, which she quickly realized was her passion. Kristen Calderon, Acjachemen/Kumeyaay, grew up in Southern California. She’s also a wife, a mom, and guess what? She wrote this. The proud recipient of 5 Emmy awards for her work as a writer, Jamie is passionate about exploring the voices of women and social issues through comedy. She is a writer and performer most notably from The Ellen DeGeneres Show and Ellen’s Game of Games. Jamie Brunton is a proud descendant of the Colville and Spokane people of eastern Washington state. Recipients of the Native American Writer Accelerator Grant:
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