Renya Katarine Ramirez (born 1959)[1] is a Ho-Chunk American anthropologist, author, and Native feminist.
Ramirez has written 2 books on Native American culture.
Her dissertation was titled, Healing through grief: Native Americans re-imagining, culture, community and citizenship in San Jose, California.
[3] Ramirez is a professor of anthropology at University of California, Santa Cruz.
[5] Ramirez is the executive producer, co-producer, screenwriter, and co-director of the film, Standing in the Place of Fear: Legacy of Henry Roe Cloud.