Ideas shape us long before they become strategy.
My writing, research, and media explore leadership, governance, human development, and the relationship across perspectives. They reflect an ongoing curiosity about how people, communities, and institutions understand complexity, build trust, and navigate change.
Through publications, collaborative research, podcasts, and public dialogue, I contribute to conversations that encourage connected leadership and a deeper understanding of the human systems that shape our organizations and societies.
June 2025
Published on Swamphen, a journal of cultural ecology of the University of Sydney, Australia
Keynote Essay : Indigenous Embassy
As Indigenous Peoples, our own orientation to boundaries is incompatible with oppressive constructs because, for us, borders are dynamic, semipermeable sites of relational increase. We will share this orientation from our unique experience of emergent embassy rituals between Cañari and Kara::Kichwa of the Andes::Amazon and Bama/Murri of Australia’s northeast (see Jacobs & Narváez; Yunkaporta).
Fall 2026
“Seeds and Structures”
By Tyson Yunkaporta, Gabriela Romero, and Stephanie Beck
Emergence’s seventh print volume will explore the role of seeds and structures in bridging the worlds and sowing a future where we embody an ontology of ecology. Central to this inquiry will be an examination of ancient and existing ways humans work with seeds and structures—spanning physical, cosmological and spiritual, and ecological knowledge systems that honor our sacred relationship with the Earth.
The Other Others | November 2024
Indigenous Borderwork, Kinmaking & Migration
With J.Gabriela Romero, Nkwi Flores, Amazon Andes First Peoples
A dialogue exploring the relationships between identity, migration, governance, belonging, and community formation across cultures and territories. The conversation reflects on Indigenous approaches to stewardship, kinship, and collective responsibility, and considers how different systems of knowledge inform the ways people organize, lead, and navigate change.