Hailey Maria Salazar
Assistant Teaching Professor
Portland State University (OR)

Hailey Maria Salazar (Yoeme) is an assistant teaching professor in the Indigenous Nations Studies department at Portland State University (OR) and co-founder of Copyleft Cultivars, a nonprofit organization working to preserve and protect vulnerable plants through copyleft, research, and education. Salazar is grounded in research and education as a process of reclamation, revitalization, and regeneration of Indigenous Knowledge Systems. Her areas of interest include Indigenous Traditional Ecological and Cultural Knowledge, ethnobotany, ethnomusicology, archives, liberative praxis, and data sovereignty.