Discussion Guide Author:

Pablo Montes
Pablo Montes is a PhD student at the University of Texas at Austin in the Cultural Studies in Education Program. He is the son of migrant workers from Guanajuato, Mexico, the ancestral territories of the Chichimeca Guamares and P'urhepecha. He currently serves as the Youth Director for the Indigenous Cultures Institute with the Coahuiltecan community in the Lands of Yana Wana (spirit waters of central Texas). Additionally, through a generous grant by the University of Texas at Austin’s Green Fund, he is working with co-author Judith Landeros and other Indigenous people to create a Land Based Education Curriculum. His interests include the intersection of queer settler colonialism, Indigeneity, and Land education.

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Courtney B. Cook, PhD | Education Manager, POV

Thanks to all who reviewed and contributed to this guide:

Asad Muhammad | Vice President of Impact and Engagement Strategy, POV

Shaleece Haas | Director/Producer, To the Future, with Love

Hunter “Pixel” Jimenez | Writer/Illustrator/Participant, To the Future, with Love

This resource was created, in part, with the generous support of the Open Society Foundation.