Jaquetta Shade-Johnson

Jaquetta Shade-Johnson is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Colorado. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation, her research focuses on Indigenous communities' rhetorical, embodied, and storied relationships with the land at the intersection of cultural rhetorics, Indigenous studies, and environmental humanities. She holds editorial roles in multiple academic journals and organizations.

• Founder and editor of Spark: a 4C4Equality Journal, a digital journal addressing activism in writing, rhetoric, and literacy studies.
• Editorial board member of Peitho, the journal of the Coalition of Feminist Scholars in the History of Rhetoric Composition.
• Member of the executive committee for the Conference on College Composition and Communications (CCCC).

Her work emphasizes decolonial frameworks and the role of storytelling in environmental justice, though specific grant details or future projects are not detailed in the provided text.