Mary Tuti Baker (Kanaka Maoli), PhD, MFA

Mary Tuti Baker (Kanaka Maoli), an Assistant Professor in comparative Indigenous studies at Western Washington University with a joint appointment in Canadian-American Studies, and Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies, earned her PhD in Political Science from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa specializing in Indigenous Politics and Futures Studies. Classes she teaches include comparative Indigenous politics (Moana, Abya Yalla, Turtle Island), Salish Sea Treaties, Decolonization Across the 49th parallel, and Transboundary Water Governance. She is interested in articulations between Indigenous communities and non-indigenous social justice movements, reflected in her work “A Garden of Political Transformation: Indigenism, Anarchism and Feminism Embodied.” 

What is your favorite activity to do in the Salish Sea: island hopping