Isaac Michael Ybarra, a visual artist and storyteller, is Tongva, Chumash and Xicano. Grounded in his ancestral cultivation, he utilizes film, photography and poetry to amplify decolonial narratives and reclaim Indigenous pedagogies. He graduated from Cal State Northridge, where he learned to empower his community through coalition building and navigating bureaucracy. Today, he is a fellow for the California Creative Corps and a representative of the County in the 3rd district for the Youth Climate Commission. Through these roles, he is creating a film anthology on undoing erasure in L.A. County, reflecting a synergetic ecosystem that has thrived for thousands of years.
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2024-09-15/pick-up-a-rake-get-dirty-and-then-youll-be-protecting-the-land
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