Tessa Sayers grew up in Washington State on a small llama farm. She is a certified Native artist with her tribe, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa from North Dakota. She has worked within Indian Country for 20 years. While obtaining a B.A. in Sociology with a focus in Native American studies from Western Washington University, she was the Co-Director of the Native American Mentoring Program at WWU and spent time on the Lummi Reservation tutoring and mentoring youth. In 2005, she moved to Utah, attaining an M.Ed. in Educational Psychology at the University of Utah. From 2007 to 2010, Tessa was the high school counselor at NAYA ECA, a Native American high school in Portland Oregon. She then transitioned to the Nike World Headquarters at Nike N7, a brand within Nike that inspires and enables Native and Aboriginal youth to be physically active. After meeting her husband, she moved back home to Port Orchard, Washington and became the Marketing Manager for the Kitsap Regional Library. Currently, she is the Director of Marketing and Program Development for the American Indigenous Business Leaders, overseeing marketing and student mentoring. She is also owner and designer of her own brand, Soul Curiosity, inspiring healing through art. Her evenings are spent in the country with her husband and their two fur babies Tule and Rollo, farm cat Boo and 6 chickens.

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