Lyla June Johnston

Lyla June is an Indigenous musician, author, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages. Her multi-genre presentation style has engaged and inspired people across the globe towards personal, collective and ecological healing. She blends her study of Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives and solutions. Her doctoral research focused on the ways in which pre-colonial Indigenous Nations shaped large regions of Turtle Island (a.k.a. the Americas) to produce abundant food systems for humans and non-humans. While at Mesa Refuge, Lyla June worked to translate her research into an accessible book for the public.