Hosted on June 2, 2022, the virtual Spring Lecture Series event ‘The Seeds We Bear: The Ties Between Identity & Motherhood’ was a panel discussion moderated by former Museum of the Cherokee People Aniyvwiyahi Community Program Coordinator Jennifer Wilson (Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians), included Semone Dittenholer (Winnebago, Yakama Nation), birth justice advocate and co-founder of Ttáwaxt Birth Justice Center in Wapato, Washington; Andi Murphy (Diné), journalist, Senior Producer at Native America Calling, and host of the Toasted Sister podcast, and Melissa Lewis (Cherokee Nation), Associate Professor, Department of Family & Community Medicine at University of Missouri School of Medicine.
