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Michelle D. Schenandoah

JD, LL.M., & MS, is a writer, speaker, thought leader, and traditional member of the Oneida Nation Wolf Clan of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.
She and her husband, Neal Powless, also operate Indigenous Concepts Consulting with the goal of incorporating Indigenous perspectives into the mainstream, and in existing business and media paradigms.

“Healing does not only help individuals, but it also helps their family, their children, and past generations who have experienced trauma before them.”

— Michelle Schenandoah

As founder of Rematriation magazine, an Indigenous women’s online media platform, Michelle is focused on leadership development and the reclaiming of Indigenous women’s traditional roles among their nations. Rematriation is a powerful word Indigenous women of Turtle Island use to describe how they are restoring balance to the world. To Haudenosaunee women, it means “Returning the Sacred to the Mother,” and at Rematriation Magazine we are guided by our traditional teachings which acknowledge our connection to water, Grandmother Moon and Mother Earth.

Rematriation Magazine

Rematriation Magazine is a storytelling platform where Indigenous women gather for collective healing from historical as well as current traumas—and for empowerment through rewriting our own narratives and the telling of new narratives.

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Before founding Rematriation Magazine, Michelle served as President of the Board of Directors for the non-profit, Seven Dancers Coalition. Sanctioned by the Department of Justice and the Office on Violence Against Women, the coalition focuses on ending domestic violence and sexual assault against Indigenous women. She is a former Board member for the Native American Music Awards, the NAMMYS, which established the Native Music category in the GRAMMYS during her term. She was also advisor to the Native American Technology Journey that was established by IBM and Clear Communications Group to award technology grants to Indigenous communities.

Michelle holds a JD and LL.M. in Taxation from New York Law School, a MS in online journalism, newspapers and magazines from the S.I. Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse University, and a BA from Cornell University. She lives in her people’s homelands with her husband and their beautiful children.