Lesley Art + Design’s Community Design Studio invites you to a conversation with Jennifer Himmelreich about the larger implications of the Massachusetts state flag, seal, and motto. Jennifer Himmelreich is Diné / Navajo. With a Masters of Library and Information Science from San Jose State University and an undergraduate degree from Fort Lewis College, Himmelreich helps Indigenous communities design and manage information centers that reflect their unique cultural knowledge systems. Studying issues of indigenous sovereignty and self-determination, she comments, “I researched the stories each community wanted to tell and reflected on how each institution sought to realize those unique needs.” She has worked as the Native American Artist Files Fellow at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian and is the former Co-Director of the Native American Fellowship at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. The Native American Fellowship is a leadership incubator for rising Indigenous scholars and cultural heritage professionals across the United States and Canada. Recorded on April 13, 2021.