Episode 7 with Nazune Menka

Born and raised in Alaska, Nazune Menka is Koyukon Athabascan and Lumbee. She holds a J.D. from the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers School of Law with a Certificate in Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program and serves as Of Counsel at Rosette, LLP a national law firm serving Indian Country. Nazune joined Berkeley Law to serve as the Tribal Cultural Resources Project Policy Fellow in September 2020 which is conducting outreach to California Indigenous communities to assess how the Project can support them as they exercise their sovereignty, and build their capacities to advocate for the preservation, protection, and repatriation of sacred sites, homelands, ancestral remains, and cultural heritage. The Project is supported by a grant from the Native American Heritage Commission and is working with the Pro Bono Program at the Law School to engage pro bono law students in the Project. This bio is provided via: https://www.law.berkeley.edu/our-faculty/faculty-profiles/nazune-menka-koyukon-athabascan-lumbee/#tab_profile