Brian Maitland was raised in Jackson, TN, and has been living in Southwest Colorado for the past three years. He is a senior in the Anthropology Department at Fort Lewis College, and will earn a Bachelor of Arts degree in Spring 2019. His educational experience includes field work, lab work, mapping (GIS), and assisting with Tribal consultations. In December 2018, Brian presented his senior research, which focused on basketry and how woven items can show a network between groups of the Southwest and their environment. Pitch coated baskets have captivated him ever since he saw his first one at the Southern Ute Museum. His senior research will be the focus of his presentation.
Brian is an intern at the Center of Southwest Studies, tasked with inventorying and cataloguing the Center’s basket collections
Peshawn Bread is a writer of poetry and screenplays as well as a camera woman. Bread is a fourth-year student at the Academy of Art University where she studies Screenwriting and has experience working on independent films. Bread is a Sundance Film Festival Alumni of many programs. In the winter of 2015 she was introduced and welcomed as one of Sundance Institute’s Full Circle Kellogg Fellows. In the summer of 2016 she assisted with the Sundance Filmmaker’s Lab in Santa Fe, NM. 
Tanaya Winder is a writer, educator, motivational speaker, and performance poet from the Southern Ute, Duckwater Shoshone, and Pyramid Lake Paiute Nations. She grew up on the Southern Ute Indian reservation and attended college at Stanford University where she earned a BA in English and the University of New Mexico where she received an MFA in creative writing. Since then she has co-founded 
