Indigenous Voices: Joey Clift and Terria Smith in conversation

Part of Indigenous Voices
Sponsored by Telegraph Hill Arts and Literature
Co-presented with Heyday an independent, nonprofit publisher founded in 1974 in Berkeley, California.

Join us as we close out our Native American Heritage Month series, welcoming Joey Clift and Terria Smith to share their latest works — We've Been Here The Whole Time! and I Love You So Many.

Free to attend — RSVP required to reserve your seat.

Speakers

Joey Clift is a Los Angeles-based, Peabody and 2x Emmy Award-nominated comedian, writer, director, producer and enrolled member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe.

Joey attended college to become a local TV weather person because as a kid he didn’t see any Native American comedians on television, and that made him believe he wasn’t allowed to work in comedy. Since then he has learned that this is not true – and his comedy style reflects that. Joey’s work has been featured in The Washington Post, Pitchfork, NPR, Dead Meat, Dropout and Comedy Central.

Terria Smith is a tribal member of the Torres Martinez Desert Cahuilla Indians and a proud original Californian. She is the editor of News from Native California magazine and director of the Berkeley Roundhouse, Heyday’s California Indian publishing program. Smith is also the editor of the 2023 anthology Know We Are Here: Voices of Native California Resistance. She received her undergraduate degree at Cal Poly Humboldt (formerly Humboldt State University) and earned her master’s degree at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She lives on her ancestral homelands in the Coachella Valley with her puppy Havana.