Indigenous women create sustainable economic impacts throughout time.

We believe the economic empowerment of Indigenous women creates mutually beneficial and sustainable ecosystems. Guided by our Ancestors, we are bringing forward traditional Indigenous economic systems into today’s world by redefining wealth, success, and metrics of return on investment on our own terms.

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Photos courtesy of New Mexico Palace of the Governors Photo Archive

OUR FUTURE

OUR ANCESTORS

Rocio Francis

Restorative Fund Cohort Member

Rocio is the creator and founder of Morning Mist Soap Co., a small business that provides plastic free and vegan skincare and soap products. Her brand was created from a desire to empower her daughters, pass down family stories, heal generational trauma, normalize sustainable lifestyles while navigating disabilities, and teaching others how to love their skin using waste-free, high-quality products.

Cleo Otero

Creative Fund Cohort Member

Cleo is the owner and founder of Cleo's Blue Corn Kitchen, an Indigenous food business that creates healing meals and food items that are based in local and traditional ingredients. Cleo stays true to her belief that "food is medicine" and ensures that she is always working with local sources to keep her food as close to our communities as possible.

Melody Lewis

Restorative Fund Cohort Member

Melody Lewis is a Co-Founder of Cahokia, the very first Indigenous, Women-Owned Collaborative ArtSpace in Downtown Phoenix . She is also a co-founder of IndigenousCC (Indigenous Community Collaborative), a Native American women-owned social enterprise.

Ahsaki Baa
LaFrance-Chachere

Restorative Fund Cohort Member

Ahsaki is the owner of Ah-Shí Beauty, an Indigenous-owned Beauty brand that is taking the world by storm! She focuses on bringing an authentic Indigenous-Black voice to the Beauty Industry while representing, protecting and celebrating her culture, life ways, and traditional teachings.

Lauren Howland

Creative Fund Cohort Member

Lauren Howland is the creator of Handcrafts by Howland/ Dine Roots Collective. She is an Apache, Diné and Pueblo silversmith, personal account, and community servant.

April Tinhorn

Restorative Fund Cohort Member

April is the “Chief Connector” and CEO of Tinhorn Consulting, LLC, a full-service integrated marketing and consulting firm working to solve communication challenges within Indigenous communities by providing safe, authentic, lively spaces for training, marketing, and connection needs. April (Hualapai/Navajo/Chinese) is passionate about disrupting patterns and stereotypes that no longer serve us by utilizing her digital storytelling and creative online outreach techniques.

Alicia Littlebear

Creative Fund Cohort Member

Alicia is from Tamaya (Santa Ana Pueblo) and is a descendant of the Mvskoke, Yuchi and Shawnee Nations. Owner/operator/creator of a.littlebear. Alicia founded a.littlebear during the middle of the pandemic as a way to practice self-care. Her inspiration comes from traditional beading art forms and modern fashion.

Creative Fund Cohort Members

Restorative Fund Cohort Members

What Our Future Looks Like

Goals

We are respectfully recognized as experts in our fields and acknowledged as critical economic drivers in bringing forward solutions that address gender, racial and cultural wealth gaps on a local and international scale.

Our Traditional economic knowledge systems are held on equal footing with Western economic systems and we are acknowledged as knowledge keepers and practitioners of these Matrilineal systems.

We are physically and legally protected in order to ensure a stabilized and thriving future for our Peoples and the world.

We are known and supported as unique Peoples who provide critical resources, knowledge and skillsets to help "fill" the world's knowledge and resource "gaps".

Winners of the "Equality Can't Wait" Challenge

Rising to the top of the more-than 500 proposals, The Future is Indigenous Women initiative, from New Mexico Community Capital and Native Women Lead, is working on the front lines and from within Native communities to help Indigenous women build power in their lives and careers.

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Investing in the Future of Indigenous Women Entrepreneurs

"Women in America earn, on average, 82 cents for every dollar a man earns, and for some underrepresented groups, that gap can be much higher. Joining me to talk about efforts to empower native women and their businesses is Jamie Gloshay..."

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Business Not as Usual: The Future Is Indigenous Women

As I step out of the Albuquerque sun into the breezy, Indigenous-led offices on Gold and Third Street, I am met by Native women, their warm greetings, their laughter. Little did I know their financial revolution—rooted in Indigenous values and worldviews—would soon leave me awestruck and in tears.

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