Our Team

  • Sunny Myers is a technologist, bridge-builder, and strategist, and a proud membere Lumbee and Sappony Tribes of North Carolina. With a foundation in engineering and operations, she brings over a decade of experience leading cross-functional initiatives at Amazon, Palo Alto Networks, and Fastly, where she serves as Senior Employee Experience and Belonging Partner. She blends technical expertise with cultural advocacy to drive inclusive, scalable change.

    Sunny is the Founder and Advisor of the AUNTIE Tech Collective, uplifting Indigenous girls and womxn in STEM, and serves on the boards of Triangle Women in STEM, Natives in Tech, and the Triangle Native American Society. She shows up with big earrings, bold allyship, and unapologetic Auntie Energy.

  • Desiree Acosta is a Cultural Technologist, evaluator, and multimedia journalist whose work connects Indigenous cultural knowledge, systems design, and community-centered media. A Miwok descendant and two-spirit, she focuses on Indigenous sovereignty, environmental justice, youth resilience, and institutional accountability across both grassroots organizing and formal program environments.
    Her background blends movement journalism with program architecture and evaluation. Her reporting and photography are in the New York University Library and the New Mexico Museum of Indian Arts and Crafts in Santa Fe as well ashave appeared in outlets such as Truthout, YES! Magazine, Earth Island Journal, and The Real News Network, centering Indigenous-led struggles and the long-term impacts of policy and Indigenous systems. She's built TEDx events, participated in organizing the People's Climate March in DC, and was really stoked to participate with NASA at the first of their kind Tweetups over the years.
    In her day job as Cultural Technologist, Desiree develops culturally grounded prevention programs, evaluation frameworks, and durable infrastructure such as curricula, dashboards, and surveys designed to preserve institutional memory. She's also the President of the Board of Directors of Natives in Tech. As a current Emergence Circle fellow, she continues to explore ethics, responsibility, and long-term impact through work that integrates Indigenous organizing, media practice, cultural excellence, and systems thinking.

  • Diane Chang is an expert on issues at the intersection of technology, media, and society. She has over a decade of product management experience building digital products that connect people to critical information. She is currently Head of Product for Risk and Evaluation at Canadian AI company Cohere, and a Senior Fellow at Tech Global Institute, a nonprofit that advances digital rights across the Global South

  • Gracie Diabo is a Software Engineering student at McGill University and a member of the Mohawk community of Kahnawà:ke. Her work sits at the intersection of technology and community leadership. With experience in software and AI systems, she is interested in how emerging technologies shape Indigenous governance, data sovereignty, and cultural knowledge systems.

  • Madison Satterfield is a strategy and operations leader with more than a decade of experience scaling tech startups. A proud member of the Choctaw Nation, she has a passion for designing systems that turn big ideas into lasting impact, especially for the people that need it most. Madison is a co-founder and serves on the leadership team of the AUNTIE Tech Collective, where she helps shape strategy and implementation for programs supporting Indigenous womxn and girls in tech. Outside of work, you’ll find her chasing her toddler, mentoring emerging leaders, or building the playbook for the next big thing - with plenty of Auntie energy along the way.

  • Keyaanna “Kiko” Pausch (Diné), from Phoenix, AZ, holds a B.A. in Digital Culture from ASU and 5 years’ IT experience with the Phoenix Art Museum and AZ Supreme Court. She's professionally worked as a Software Developer 2 years where she learned to build AI features. She currently works as a remote Digital Solutions Specialist for Cayuse Native Solutions, a Native American IT company in Pendleton, OR where she codes and designs websites/apps.

  • Ya’at’ééh. Shi éí Tracie Benally yinishyé. Bit’ahnii nishłį́ dóó Bilagáana bashishchiin. Tó’dích’íi’nii eí dashicheii dóó Bilagáana eí dashinálí. Tł’óó’dí’tsin deé’ nashá.

    I’m a Diné (Navajo) woman from the communities of Becenti and Crownpoint who's grounded in the values of relational accountability, sovereignty, and community care.

    I serve as the Director of Community Insights & Special Projects at the One Generation Fund, where I lead work on Indigenous Data Sovereignty, educational equity, and community-centered research. I am also a co-founder of Emergence Circle, an inaugural pilot supporting individuals with vested interests in Tribal AI futures and Indigenous tech solutions.

    My work lives at the intersections of policy, data, and storytelling. I bring experience as a high school teacher, Hill staffer, grant writer, and nonprofit leader, with a background in research and statistical analysis grounded in Indigenous methodologies.

    Whether I’m supporting Tribal nations, facilitating listening sessions, or developing frameworks for community research, my throughline remains constant: to amplify Native voices, support self-determination, and build toward just futures.