WELCOME!
Dr. Meranda Roberts, a citizen of the Yerington Paiute Tribe and Chicana holds a Ph.D. in History and an M.A. in Public History from the University of California, Riverside. She served as co-curator at the Field Museum of Natural History, developing new content for the Native American exhibition hall, Native Truths: Our Stories. Our Voices. Meranda curated the 2023 Native American Invitational Exhibition at Idyllwild Arts, Still We Smile: Humor as Correction and Joy, and most recently guest-curated Continuity: Cahuilla Basket Weavers and their Legacies at the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College. As a visiting professor in the art history department at Pomona College, Meranda is dedicated to holding colonial institutions accountable for harmful narratives about Indigenous people. Using Indigenous methodologies and anti-colonial pedagogy, she is committed to reconnecting collection items with descendant communities, sharing their stories to reflect their true significance
If you would like to learn how to help your institution engage with anti-colonial practices, and to learn from Meranda’s experiences, please feel free to reach out to her in the link above!
As you navigate through this website, please consider engaging in reciprocity. Meranda currently works independently, and is very open with sharing so much of her journey freely.
If you learn from her and would like to give back, please consider donating to her Venmo @Meranda-R or paypal @MerandaRoberts
Personal Land Acknowledgment:
I would like to acknowledge that as a Northern Paiute woman I live, work, eat, and sleep on the homelands of the Tongva (Gabrieleno) people. May we always honor this Nation, their sovereignty, their ways of life, and the love they have for their ancestors. We are all on Native Land.