Cole Haan's video: Kinsale Drake - We See You: Inspiring Women Powerful Stories

In honor of Women’s History Month, we are celebrating extraordinary stories told by extraordinary stIn honor of Women’s History Month, we are celebrating extraordinary stories told by extraordinary storytellers. Throughout the entire month of March, in partnership with @colehaan we are highlighting four visionary, multimedia artists who have devoted their lives to creating and cultivating community, weaving together past, present and future generations of women through their chosen art forms, while also strengthening our connections to each other and humanity as a whole. Join us every Sunday as we feature a new storyteller and highlight the vital role they play in shaping the world with their artistry. Kinsale Drake is the writer she was looking for when she was a young girl. The Navajo poet was a voracious reader growing up. She often felt left out of stories but didn’t know where or how to find books from Indigenous authors. So she began to write instead and she wove stories about herself, her family, and her community into her poetry. It took her to the stages of Carnegie Hall and the Library of Congress and it won her honors as a National Student Poet and a J. Edgar Meeker Prize and Susan O’Connor award winner. Now Kinsale hopes to create the opportunities that didn’t exist for her. “Everything I do is for that little girl that I was,” she says. This April, Kinsale will officially launch the NDN Girls Book Club with goals to encourage young people’s literary creativity, amplify Indigenous authors, and support tribal libraries and bookstores around the country. She wants others to have the same experience she did when she stumbled upon her first Native writer and her world opened up. “It changed everything,” Kinsale says. “I want people to know that they can be represented in a book club like that.” Check out our "We See You" series in honor of Women's History Month here: https://bit.ly/3lmGyRZ @MariaShriver Learn more about NDN Girls Book Club and stay connected with the latest on Instagram at @ndngirlsbookclub SynchID: Q3VX1MLEKUOPQ99E SXNXQZKPHGCUZDWZ O9XSIMJQW3KSNL9T I6COBLAPIPBMW8XF 5PG0KP4KIKAMLDFI