About our Scholars
We are a team of dedicated speakers and educators with over 10 years of experience leading talks and culturally informed performances at educational institutions and community venues throughout the world!
Savannah Rivka Powell obtained an MA in Folkloristics and Applied Heritage Studies with a focus on the intersection of cultural identity, sexuality, and gender expression in traditional folk ensembles. She completed an individualized BA in Social Justice and International Cross-Cultural Awareness with a focus on gender studies, diversity, and Indigenous studies. She has a strong interest in cultural musicology and performs with various folk and early music ensembles. Through her presentations and workshops, she explores the intersectionalities of the human experience. She integrates an approach that is academic and artistically creative by including musical performative elements to convey culturally relevant material for the perfect blend of "edutainment." Savannah Rivka is passionate about conscious engagement with heritage and folklore as a form of empowerment.
For a list of publications and a full CV please visit https://ut-ee.academia.edu/SavannahRivkaPowell.
For a list of publications and a full CV please visit https://ut-ee.academia.edu/SavannahRivkaPowell.
Jason S. Cordova is a graduate of the Metropolitan State University of Denver with a BS degree in Aerospace Operations. He is an Executive Board Trustee with the Denver Astronomical Society, and a member of the Society for Cultural Astronomy in the American Southwest. Jason maintains community bonds through Calmecaztlán, an institute of Indigenous scholarship and praxis and has worked diligently to learn from elders and keepers of traditional knowledge. Jason has long strived to build bridges between traditional ways of teaching and western science. He has collaborated with university teams to apply Physics Modeling software to Archaeoastronomy, presented at conferences and is a contributing author to Before Borders: Revealing the Greater Southwest’s Ancestral Cultural Landscape with his paper “JOURNEY TO THE SIXTH SUN: COMPUTER MODELING THE MESOAMERICAN CALENDAR AND POLAR STAR PRECESSION.”