Discipline: Interdisciplinary

Sophia Felder was born and raised in Anchorage, Alaska and has been a permanent resident of Denver, Colorado since 2010. Sophia is currently working to preserve statewide historical sites and structures as a Historical Preservations Grant Contract Specialist with the State Historic Fund based out of History Colorado. Sophia’s love of global cultures, history, and identity led her to complete an undergraduates in Anthropology with a minors in Spanish from the Metropolitan State University of Denver and will be continuing her education by enrolling in Adams State Universities Masters program in Cultural Resource Management. Her own cultural heritage has taken her to Colombia, the West Indies, and New Orleans to find the interconnectedness of these groups within the Americas and the greater global communities.

Sounding Joy Music Therapy, Inc.

Conservator, Utah Museum of Fine Arts

Discipline: Multidisciplinary

Stella Nall “Bisháakinnesh” (Rode Buffalo) is a multimedia artist and poet from Bozeman, Montana. A first descendant of the Crow tribe, her work is informed by her experiences navigating the world and often centers current issues pertaining to Indigenous identity, visibility and representation.

She graduated from the University of Montana in 2020 with a BFA in Printmaking, a BA in Psychology and a minor in Art History and Criticism. She now lives in Missoula, where she is represented by Radius Gallery.

Her work may be seen as murals across the western states, and has been acquired to permanent collections at Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (Washington, DC), The Institute of American Indian Arts Museum of Contemporary Native Arts (Santa Fe, NM), The Montana Museum of Art and Culture (Missoula, MT), and Montana State University (Bozeman, MT).

Estefania Ramirez began her career as a dancer at 17, making her debut at the Royal Albert Hall in London. She toured nationally with Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco before relocating to Spain in 1997, where she studied extensively with many grand maestros.

Ramirez served as a dance professor and movement theory specialist for the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Education, developing K-9 dance education programs for music and physical education in public schools across the Communitat Valenciana.

In May 2018, she debuted “Mujeres Valientes” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York, a dance drama choreographed by flamenco icon Belen Maya. Ramirez was also featured as a leading flamenco dance soloist at the Women in Dance International Dance Conference at Drexel University in Philadelphia and recognized at the Association of Performing Arts Professionals Cohort Leadership Conference in New York City in January 2023.

She is currently the co-director of Entreflamenco in Santa Fe, New Mexico.