Tommey Jodie

Tommey Jodie (she/they) is Tótsohnii nishłį́ (Big Water Clan), Tó’aheedlíinii báshíshchíín (born for Water Flows Together Clan), a Diné asdzáán from Teesto, Arizona. She now lives in Tucson, where she is in her final year at the University of Arizona studying Nutrition and Food Systems, Food Studies, and Creative Writing with an emphasis in poetry. Her work centers Indigenous Food Sovereignty, storytelling, and the role of cultural and ecological knowledge in strengthening community wellbeing. She is especially interested in how Indigenous ecological knowledge, narrative, and land-based relationships shape our understanding of health, identity, and self-determination. Through writing and research, she aims to challenge settler colonial frameworks, reclaim Indigenous ways of knowing, and support Indigenous communities’ right to define and care for their food, people, knowledge, and futures on their own terms.