Sutton King, MPH, Nāēqtaw-Pianakiw (comes first woman), is Afro Indigenous and a descendent of the Menominee and Oneida Nations of Wisconsin. She is a graduate of CMSV and NYU School of Global Public Health. She is an internationally recognized Indigenous rights activist, public speaker, published researcher and social entrepreneur dedicated to developing and scaling innovative solutions to improve Indigenous health equity across sectors. Sutton is the co-founder and President of Urban Indigenous Collective, an Indigenous lead public health NGO supporting access to culturally-tailored health and wellness services for self-identified Indigenous peoples in Lenapehoking (NYC) and the greater NYC area (NY, NJ, CT, PA) through community-based participatory research, advocacy, community programming, and direct services. As a survivor, she leads UIC’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Trans and Two-Spirit People (MMWIGT2S)NYC+ program working to fill a gap in research, advocacy, and education to the public about the MMIWGT2S crisis and epidemic. She is the Co-Founder of ShockTalk, a culturally tailored telemental health platform that facilitates culturally appropriate patient-provider relationships for Indigenous communities through AI technology and social media. She joins the Indigenous Medicine Conservation Fund as a Program Manager of Engagement and Benefit Sharing sitting on the operations committee. She facilitates a relationship between the Psychedelic Space and Indigenous traditional cultures that centers Indigenous sovereignty.
