Danikah Chartier (she/her) is a first-generation descendant of the Eskasoni Mi'kmaw Nation, a fine art photographer, and educator. She is on a cultural reconnection journey and utilizes her art and museum work as pathways for education and community-building. Danikah currently serves as a Teen Engagement Specialist at the Portland Museum of Art and a Gallery Educator at the Colby College Museum of Art, where she leads the Wabanaki Lineage and Legacy tour for K-12 students and facilitates Decolonizing Art workshops for educators across Maine. Previously, as an Indigenous Community Liaison and Researcher at Historic New England, she incorporated Indigenous perspectives into museum tours, trained staff in respectful engagement, made recommendations for reparative justice, and curated a contemporary Wabanaki art exhibition. Danikah holds a BFA in Photography from the Fashion Institute of Technology. She describes her photographic practice as a dance; she follows her intuition and connects deeply with her emotions to tell stories through her body and the medium of time. Through performance-based self-portraiture, Danikah overcomes self-limiting beliefs and challenges societal norms.