Evelyn Mikayla Martin (Itsooaakii) of the Blackfeet Tribe of Montana graduated with honors from the University of Washington in Seattle with a Bachelor of Arts in American Indian Studies. Mikayla was named to the Dean’s List, is a member of the National Collegiate Scholars Honor Society and is also a member of the National Society of Leadership and Success. 

Mikayla is an art educator who works with Indigenous women, girls, and youth in her workshops to encourage participants to centre their cultural identities and healing through visual arts. Mikayla creates acclaimed vibrant self-portraits, billboards, and projects of reclamation. 

She was the first Indigenous Visual Artist to sell her artwork in-store and collaborate with the Nordstrom Company and has had her paintings featured internationally including at the Seattle Art Museum (Seattle, WA), Center on Contemporary Art (Seattle, WA), Arts Commons Window Galleries: Portraits of a Piikani Woman (Calgary, AB), Stride Gallery (Calgary, AB), and La Macina di San Cresci (Tuscany, Italy). She also delivered a keynote at the Women’s March Seattle (January 2019), speaking about initiating an action plan for all people to join forces to end the global crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.