Alexandra Sutton

Landberry

Alexandra E. Sutton currently serves as the Executive Director of the Landberry Foundation (www.landberry.org), and the founder of its project, Indigenous East (www.indigenouseast.org), as well as Board President for the Indigenous-led land conservation non-profit NDPonics (www.ndponics.org). She is an enrolled member of the Saponi Nation of Ohio, and an M.A. student in the Department of American Studies at UNC Chapel Hill, where her research focuses on the migration histories and cultural-ecological knowledge preservation of the Yesàh (Saponi/Occaneechi/Monacan/Tutelo) families who were forced to migrate from Virginia and North Carolina to the Ohio River Valley between 1805 and 1860. She holds a Ph.D. in Environment from Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, an M.S. in Wildlife & Fisheries Science from Texas A&M and a B.S. in Biology from Howard University. She previously held the roles of Chief of Staff, Natural Resources Conservation Service; Vice President of Conservation, Justice & Equity at Ocean Conservancy; and Senior Regional Director, Southeast at The Wilderness Society.

Her reflections on Afro-Indigenous/Aframerindian identities and experiences can also be read in the October 2021 compilation ‘zine To Our Future Afro-Indigenous Kin, as well as in Ribbons of Color Along the Eno River (Vol 10, No. 1 of the Eno Journal). You can see more of her academic work on Google Scholar.