Valerie Nuvayestewa

Project Coordinator for Tuskwat Oqawtoynani

Valerie Nuvayestewa is Hopi/Tewa and from the Tewa Corn Clan, Tewa Village, First Mesa, Arizona. Valerie is the current Project Coordinator for Tuskwat Oqawtoynani, (helping the Earth to gather Her strength), a fiscally sponsored, Hopi and Tewa led environmental, grassroots organization. Her community and family joins in this meaningful work as they come together to cultivate awareness of land stewardship within First Mesa Villages. An avid environmentalist, a writer, forager, mother, grandmother and student in life, she finds that her most important and fulfilling work comes from spending time in the fields and garden with her family.