Alejandra is a visual artist who works with photography and mix-media, and often embeds herself into different cultures and subcultures. A member of the Yavapai-Apache Nation, Alejandra grew up in Camp Verde, a rural river valley in northern Arizona, where she learned the value of the interdependent relationships between land, culture, and community.
Her photography has covered a diverse set of topics, including brothels, motel living, drugs, protests, biker gangs, and Native American ceremonies. She works to provide an analytical, compassionate, and uniquely Native American lens from which to view, engage, learn and share the full range of human emotion and experience across cultures and subcultures — off the reservation and on.
This year’s celebration of Paiute culture and history featured Grand Entry, traditional and contemporary dances, and vendors selling beadwork, jewelry and food.
The planned Thacker Pass lithium mining project in northern Nevada is hoping to provide the lithium needed to fuel the green energy transition. While the company has done its own outreach, regional tribes say they weren’t properly consulted by the government.