nDigiDreams is a woman-owned and indigenous-focused consulting and training company that specializes in media production, instructional technology and digital storytelling with a focus on health, education, policy, and cultural preservation.

We use an innovative and integrative approach that is specifically tailored to meet the short- and long-term goals of our collaborators and the needs and resources of rural and underserved communities.

We see each person and each community as equal collaborators and draw upon our respective strengths and resources to realize a greater condition and better future.

Our passion for the overall well-being of humanity and for storytelling, art, and media lies at the core of our beings and inspire our actions.

nDigiDreams has travelled to numerous tribal reservations, villages, and urban centers to train hundreds of Native community members ranging from 9 to 83 years of age in this participatory media technique.

Brenda K. Manuelito, MA (Diné) (aka B.Kay)
Media Producer, Education Director, Co-Founder

bkay4@ndigidreams.com
520.591.9986

Kííyáa’áaníí nish’lí, Ashíí’hí ba’shishchíín, Hash’tlishníí da shichei dóó Tlo’gí da shinalí.

 

Brenda is a cultural anthropologist with over 20 years of combined work experience in higher education, American Indian history, ethnography, and public health.

For most of her life she has been a “cultural translator” between indigenous communities and mainstream academics and has held various positions at The Smithsonian Institution, The Newberry Library, Diné College, and the Universities of Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, and Washington.

In 2005, Brenda began using digital storytelling to “break through the sound barrier” in order to bring some of our most critical social justice issues and most valued voices to the public’s attention.  She integrated digital storytelling into her outreach, education, and research work at the University of Arizona as the Program Director of Health Disparities, Mel and Enid Zuckerman School of Public Health and at the University of Washington in her former role as Director, Native People for Cancer Control.

She is one of a handful of advanced Native digital storytellers, consultants, and workshop facilitators in the United States and is working to build a cadre of “new media champions” across Indian Country.

Brenda is a Board Member of Stories for Change, an online meeting place for community digital storytelling facilitators and advocates., and sits on the Governing Board of Pathways Into Health, a grassroots collaboration of more than 150 individuals and organizations dedicated to improving the health, health care, and health care education of American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) in this country.

Carmella Rodriguez, MA (aka C’Rodrigo)
Media Producer, Instructional Designer, Co-Founder

crodrigo@ndigidreams.com
303.916.5213

Carmella started nDigiDreams while she was completing her masters in Information and Learning Technologies from the University of Colorado Denver with the goal of using new media tools to improve health literacy education among rural and underserved communities.

Carmella has been involved in several web, multi-media and video production projects since the early 1990s. She helped co-found On-Demand Technologies (ODT) in Austin, TX. ODT was the first software company to deliver video-on-demand using analog and digital technology over telephone lines. She owned CineTek Productions in Denver, CO for ten years, creating videos for consumer and corporate clients. She spent the last four years helping to create a social media campaign centered around the prevention of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder for the University of Colorado.

Realizing the importance and urgency of personal story combined with media to improve health education she completed a facilator's digital storytelling certificate through the Center for Digital Storytelling (CDS) and has co-faciliated workshops for CDS in Denver and Phoenix and in several other states for the Center for Native Digital Storytelling.

Eugenia J. Manuelito (Diné) (aka Gina)
Creative Director

gina@ndigidreams.com

Eugenia Manuelito is a graduate of the Colorado Institute of Art and specializes in advertising/graphic design.  She has designed logos, brochures, and billboards for tribal communities, universities, and private and public entities.

She is developing new creative solutions for “visually thinking” about information, data, and statistics for tribal leaders, educators, and policy makers and she is collaborating on a series of culturally-relevant health education picture books for native children. Gina has a fierce passion for eagles and is always sketching and drawing them wherever she goes.

Don Gaspar (aka nDigiKitty)

Don Gaspar is from the Old Pueblo. She paws buttons on the computer and files paperwork on the floor.  Occasionally she likes to work on the website.