May 13, 2024 | Repost from American Indian & Indigenous Studies Program FB
Yanenowi (She Guards the Corn) Logan (Seneca) is graduating with a degree in Environment & Sustainability from the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and a minor in American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program at Cornell University. Yanenowi served as the NAISAC Co-Chair, the Media Chair for AISES, is the co-President of the Youth Commission with the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), and previously served as the commission’s Vice President. In her work with NCAI, she established a Native youth travel scholarship program to enable greater youth participation in the national dialogue, ensuring youth voices and issues in Indian Country are heard. She delivered the first ever in-person State of Indian Nations Youth Address before the NCAI General Assembly.
She was selected to attend the United Nations Indigenous Youth Forum in Rome, Italy in October 2023. She is the recipient of the WNY Peace Center’s Emerging Leader Award, the Tewaaraton Award in lacrosse, founder of the Seneca Youngbloods, a grassroots youth organization at the Seneca Nation, sits on the Native Youth Council for the Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force, and was elected and served on Cornell’s Student Assembly as the CALS Student Representative. She is an AIISP Ambassador, alumni of the Cornell ILR High Road Fellowship, plays club lacrosse at Cornell, and in 2023 worked as a Public Policy & Regulation intern with the multinational law firm Holland & Knight LLP researching environmental and tribal law issues.
Yanenowi plans on spending her free time after graduation traveling and working before applying to law school.
