Team Member: Annita Lucchesi

Annita Lucchesi, MA

Cheyenne descendent 

Pronouns: she/her

Position(s): 

Indigenous Data Sovereignty Doctoral Scholar, Native Nations Institute

PhD student, University of Arizona School of Geography, Development, & Environment

Executive Director, Sovereign Bodies Institute

Email me: alucchesi@email.arizona.edu

Annita Lucchesi is a Cheyenne descendant, and is pursuing a PhD in the University of Arizona’s School of Geography, Development & Environment. She earned her MA in American Studies from Washington State University, and BA in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. She is a survivor of domestic and sexual violence and trafficking, and currently serves as Executive Director of Sovereign Bodies Institute, a non-profit research center dedicated to research on gender and sexual violence against Indigenous peoples. As a geographer, her work addresses how Indigenous data sovereignty can shape or inform geographic research and cartographic methods, how Indigenous practices of mapmaking can be reclaimed and designed to foster Indigenous data sovereignty, and how colliding efforts to map data on Indigenous territories and the bodies of Indigenous women facilitate historic and ongoing violence.

Telecommuting from Wiyot territory in Northern California