Jonnelle Walker

Background & Expertise

Jonnelle Walker is a FDL Ojibwe Descendant born and raised in the hillside of Duluth. Walker's work is an artistic and theoretical exploration of the stories, spatialities, temporalities and worldviews that inform Anishinaabe understandings of place. Walker earned their BA, MA, and PhD in American studies at the University of Minnesota. Her upcoming project, titled “Footnotes of a Misaabekong Rugrat,” examines the relationship between settler colonial infrastructure, land-theft, Indigenous erasure, and the environment to highlight how Indigenous peoples in the hillside of Duluth strategically and artistically navigate settler colonial violence to create communities and networks of care in spite of ongoing removals and dispossessions.