If you haven’t tuned in to the Young & Indigenous Podcast series, you’re in for a treat. Bioneers is honored to have collaborated with the team at YAI to record a remarkable series of 16 podcast interviews with visionary leaders and movement makers. These interviews were recorded at the 2025 Bioneers Conference with speakers from the Indigenous Forum as guests. Bioneers provided the space and opportunity, legendary recordist and producer Ray Day recorded the audio, and YAI provided the talent, vision, and people power. You can hear the first two episodes and subscribe below so you get alerts when the rest are released!

Amy Cordalis at Bioneers

This special crossover episode marks the launch of our Young and Indigenous at Bioneers series and continues the ongoing conversations from Healing Women Heals Mother Earth. Co-hosts Haley and Santana speak with Amy Bowers Cordalis, a Yurok attorney and activist, about the historic removal of the Klamath River dams. Recorded live at the 2025 Bioneers Conference, the conversation explores how restoring the river is inseparable from cultural survival and personal healing. Amy shares powerful reflections on health, justice, and what it means to fight for the future of your people — and the planet — one foot in front of the other.

Baratunde Thurston at Bioneers

In this mic drop of an episode, Raven and Santana sit down with Emmy-nominated host, writer and public speaker Baratunde Thurston. In this conversation they discuss healthy masculinity, storytelling as resistance, and maintaining Indigenous values in the age of AI. Together, they explore what it means to carry and protect information in an era of knowledge erasure, and how humor, creativity, and active participation can help us build pathways of resistance. This pivotal conversation dives deep into urgent questions: Is democracy dying? How do we keep knowledge alive? What does it mean to be a citizen? And how can men truly support women? Recorded live at the Bioneers Conference, this episode invites us to look inwards and outwards — at who we are, and how we can live in good relation with those around us. You’re going to want to listen to this more than once.

The Young & Indigenous Podcast amplifies the voices, stories, and experiences of Indigenous people in all walks of life, creating a platform that fosters empowerment and meaningful conversations. Through storytelling, they uplift the spirits of Native youth, strengthen community, and celebrate indigeneity.

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