Sandra Abena Songbird Naylor

• 2004- Pendleton Awarded for Coordinator work done - The Native Voice Native Film Festival 2004 Rapid City, SD
• 2001 - Creative Work Fund - San Francisco - Collaborative Grant with NACC (Native American Cultural Center) to produce on-line Native poem anthology & performance: ROUNDDANCE POEM 2001
• 2000 - Daimler/Chrysler "Spirit in the Words" featured poet series, NYC
• 2000 - Austin International Poetry Festival - feature, Austin, TX
• 1999 - Native Women's Honoring Celebration/History Dept. - pen featured artist, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA
• 1999 - Daimler/Chrysler "Spirit in the Words" featured poet series, LA
• 1999 - Poet in residence, Hedgebrook Writer's retreat, Whidbey Island, WA
• 1998 - National Writer's Union Membership Award
• 1996- Mary TallMountain Award for Poetry & Community Service, SF, CA

• 2005 April Black Hills Songwriters Showcase: Cowboys & Indians: Poets, Storytellers, Songs - Prince & Pauper Village Bookshop - Rapid City, SD
• 2004 Electric Powwow - Native Health Center of S.D. Fundraiser - Brava Theater, San Francisco
• 2002 Little White Buffalo After-School Project: Poetry - Rapid City, SD
• 2003 Little White Buffalo After-School Project: Poetry - Rapid City, SD
• 2001 Leonard Pelitier Benefit - The Justice League, SF, CA
• 2000 Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival, Berkeley, CA
• 2000 Autumnal Equinox Festival/Café Cocomo - Native American Cultural Center - Poets & Writers Magazine co-sponsored reading, SF, CA
• 2000 Daimler/Chrysler - "Spirit in the Words" featured poet - The Grill/NYC
• 2000 Austin International Poetry Festival - featured: Barnes & Nobles, Border's Books, The Book Place- Austin, TX
• 2000 Aboriginal Voices Festival - JUMP! Aboriginal Voices Radio 106.3 FM featured reader, Toronto, Canada
• 2000 World Ground Café - Poetry MC/Mumea benefit - Oakland, CA
• 2000 La Penya Cultural Center, Berkeley, CA
• 2000 The Women's Building -Native artist feature, SF, CA
• 2000 El Cantada Gallery - Native artist feature, SF, CA
• 2000 Laney College Gallery - music & spoken word performance, Oakland, CA
• 2000 KPOO Radio - feature, SF, CA
• 2000 KPFA Radio -feature, Berkeley, CA
• 2000 KCEG Youth Radio feature/Native history month - El Cerrito, CA
• 2000 Oakland Public Library - Native Culture Day, feature - Oakland, CA
• 2000 Poetry Mission Mayoral Pick - Laguna Honda Hospital - featured reader, SF, CA
• 1999 Clean Well-Lit Place for Books - Poets-in-the-Schools feature, SF, CA
• 1999 Modern Times Bookstore - NWU feature, SF, CA
• 1999 New College - Indigenous People's Day - featured reader, SF, CA
• 1999 San Francisco Book Fair - featured reader, SF., CA
• 1999 Unity '99 Native American Journalist's Assoc. Jam - music & poetry feature - Seattle, WA
• 1999 Daimler/Chrysler - "Spirit in the Words" featured poet - Georgia's Restaurant, LA, CA
• 1999 James Moore Auditorium - Oakland Public Library - music & spoken word feature, Oakland, CA
• 1999 - The Nu Upper Room - feature music & spoken word performances, Oakland, CA
• 1997/98 - The Upper Room - feature - music & spoken word performances, SF, CA
• 1989-1992 Glide Church feature/soloist Glide Choir, SF CA

• 2002- Little White Buffalo Project (Lakota Youth Cultural Program) - Rapid City, SD - After-school poetry & song workshop
• 2001 - American Indian Education - after-school/Native Author series feature, Oakland, CA
• 2000 - 10th Annual American Indian Education Conference - Organized coordinated & presented
• 1999/2000 -Poets-in-the-Schools, SF, CA - classroom poetry - various schools SF & Oakland
• 2000 - California College of Arts & Crafts - classroom featured reader - Native Author series
• 2000 - University of Creation Spirituality - featured reader, Oakland, CA
• 2000 - San Francisco Arts Institute - feature/Native Culture, SF, CA
• 1998/99 - Borges Ranch - Native culture workshops- Walnut Creek, CA
• 1998/1999 - Indigenous People's Day - classroom, music & poetry performance feature - Redwood City, CA
• 1998 - Poet in residence - Hedgebrook Writer's retreat, Whidbey Island, WA
• 1996-1998 - American Indian Education Title IX - Coordinator/Assistant - poetry/cultural curriculum in classrooms and on site
• 1996/97 - Laguna Honda Pleasant Endeavors Program - Native music & poetry weekly performance, SF, CA

• ASCAP member since 1997
• National Writer's Union Award membership 1998-1999
• Wordcraft Circle Native Writer's & Storytellers Assoc. member since 1995