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Welcome to the insights of J. Miakoda Taylor, a visionary leader with over 25 years of experience in conflict transformation, trauma healing, and organizational development.

This content shares the strategies, practices, and perspectives Miakoda uses to support teams and individuals in achieving radical collaboration, leading liberated lives, and working in true alignment with their values.

Some of the content below refers to previous iterations of the Get Free work known as Fierce Allies.

Fierce Allies 8/19/26 Fierce Allies 8/19/26

Restorative Justice, Healing Justice

Recorded at the 2014 Bioneers Summit in San Rafael, California, this conversation brings together J. Miakoda Taylor, Fania Davis, founder and executive director of Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth, and Ericka Huggins, professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Laney and Merritt Colleges.

Together, they explore a transformative approach to justice—one that prioritizes healing over punishment and cares more about repairing broken lives than enforcing broken laws. They discuss how restorative justice can challenge the “New Jim Crow” of mass incarceration, disrupt the school-to-prison pipeline, and offer a path toward more just and healing-centered communities.

Samantha Wong 12/2/21 Samantha Wong 12/2/21

Our Shared Humanity - Ep #11

Miakoda discusses the challenges and opportunities of rematriating the lifeways, lands, and sovereignty of Indigenous peoples.

Samantha Wong 11/15/21 Samantha Wong 11/15/21

Seeing Through (Actual) Native Eyes

Fireside chat at the 2021 Nature Connection Leadership Conference with Pınar Sinopolous-Lloyd (founder of Queer Nature) about the importance of decolonizing the “nature connection field” and rematriating Indigenous land and lifeways.

Samantha Wong 7/23/20 Samantha Wong 7/23/20

Flipping The Table - S2, Ep #16

Miakoda unpacks the role of white fragility, its relationship to shame, numbness and rage, and the ways to “keep ourselves on the hook,” in order to participate in the healing of our nation’s deepest wound.

Samantha Wong 6/11/20 Samantha Wong 6/11/20

Flipping The Table - S2, Ep #14

Find out how Miakoda was REALLY doing as a BIPOC single mom, during the early days of COVID-19 and black murder pandemics, and what they are REALLY needing from white allies.