Colleen Echohawk  

 

A mission for shared prosperity, cultural representation, and impactful community work.

 

Colleen Echohawk is a self-described aggressive optimist, incredible extrovert, and someone who sees the glass as not only half full, but overflowing with abundance. For her, the whole damn pie means having a lot of joy. Filling her life with beautiful dog walks, hanging with family and friends, singing karaoke, reading good books, and watching shows with her husband.  

 

Doesn’t seem too much to ask right? But she’s also a believer in shared prosperity and she’s not afraid to step up and do the scary things in life—whether that’s running for mayor of Seattle, building housing units for Seattle’s urban native homeless, or running a native retail business. Over the last two decades, Colleen has done all this and so much more as part of her commitment to helping marginalized populations and native prosperity.

 

Key Takeaways:

Native disparity: In King County, less than 1% of the population are native, yet they make up over 15% of the homeless population.  

Inspiring her kids: Colleen’s passionate about helping her children to understand truth, showing them that native people can be in office, and teaching them to not be afraid to take risks.

Changing the native narrative: She’s CEO of Eighth Generation, a Seattle-based art and lifestyle brand that is creating products by inspired natives, not native-inspired products.  

The Whole Pie means joy: Listen in for how Colleen achieves the whole damn pie.

 

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Eighth Generation

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