About The Heyday Berkeley Roundhouse: Amplifying Indigenous California

Across the region now commonly known as California, many tribal peoples have long gathered in ceremonial houses to strengthen themselves through their beliefs and traditions. In 2012, Heyday Books established the Berkeley Roundhouse as its California Indian publishing program, providing a space for tribal peoples to do the same, especially through storytelling. Along with the quarterly magazine News from Native California, Heyday has published more than 50 books devoted to California Indian culture and history, sponsored scores of events, launched two museum shows that traveled the state, and collected an archive of books, photos, oral histories, and artwork. Hear how today, the Berkeley Roundhouse program nurtures and fosters first-time authors through mentoring and fellowships, hosts internships for recent college graduates, and partners with tribal and public organizations to host and participate in culturally relevant events.

About Terria Smith

Terria Smith is a tribal member of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians. For almost ten years she has been working as the editor of News From Native California, a quarterly magazine devoted to the vibrant cultures, art, languages, histories, social justice movements, and stories of California’s diverse Indian peoples. Terria is also the director of California Indian Publishing at Heyday. She is the editor of the 2023 anthology Know We Are Here: Voices of Native California resistance. For the past twenty years, Terria has been a member of the Indigenous Journalists Association (formally the Native American Journalists Association) and is an alumna of University of California Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

About Design and Politics in Transition

Who should design serve? How does design work in a crisis, and also recognizing that some people have been living in crisis for hundreds of years? And how might we reimagine design as a radical discipline for dialogue and action? From reinterpreting legal histories and theories that enable the design of place, to redesigning food distribution systems around food and land justice, to transforming what it means to be family, design offers many ways to transform our relationships with ourselves, each other and our environment. Design and Politics in Transition offers inspiration, theory, and guidance on a variety of design practices and epistemologies that together help us transition toward different, more equitable worlds where all can thrive–even during historical moments of political and social strife.