WRITER, ACTOR, PRODUCER

“Narrative Sovereignty: The Power of Telling Our Own Stories”

Princess Daazhraii Johnson (she/her) is Neets’aii Gwich’in and lives with her three sons, daughter, and partner on lower Tanana Dene lands in Alaska.  She is humbled to serve on the boards of Native Movement and NDN Collective, and the SAG-AFTRA Native American Committee since 2007. In 2015, she was appointed by President Obama to serve on the Board of Trustees for the Institute of American Indian Arts.  She is a Sundance Film Alum, a Nia Tero Storytelling Fellow, and Illuminative/Netflix Producers Program participant and is an Emmy-nominated screenwriter and former Creative Producer for Peabody award-winning PBS Kids series Molly of Denali.