WHO WE ARE
Incredible Relatives Wearing Beautiful Jewelry.
ABOUT CHEYANNE SYMONE
VISION: Incredible Relatives Wearing Beautiful Jewelry.
MEET OUR FOUNDER
Brittany C. Turner
"For me, Native beaded earrings have always been like my super hero cape. I put them on in the morning and I feel seen. I feel strong. However, too often, Native beaded earrings are not always the most comfortable nor easy to wear every day.
This led me to start Cheyanne Symone in 2018 when I saw a need for Native beaded earrings that I could comfortably wear every day. I wanted earrings that were subtly chic while still making a statement in my daily life.
Cheyanne Symone is a combination of my identity as an indigenous Haliwa-Saponi woman, environmental scientist, and artist."
- Brittany C. Turner
Founder/ artist/ scientist
MEET THE TEAM
Director of Data Analytics
Kate Gregory
Kate is an energy nerd and leads data at Cheyanne Symone. Kate and Brittany met at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor while pursuing their graduate degrees, and worked on a team that developed an energy plan for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians.
Today, Kate works full-time as an Energy and Water Resource Efficiency Manager in NY and lives part-time in State College, PA. In addition to beaded earrings, Kate loves bouldering, being in water, and spending time in nature.
beader
Maya McCloud
Maya McCloud is of the Nisqually Indian Community near Yelm, WA. An enrolled member of the Puyallup Tribe and a descendent of WallaWalla and Pasqua Yaqui, Maya has grown up beading and dancing powwow with the help of her many siblings, aunties, parents and grandparents. As a wife and a mother of an infant daughter, she incorporates beadwork into her daily lifestyle to carry on the connection to her family and culture to pass onto the next generation of beaders.
BEADER
Rebecca Lynn
Rebecca is a Two-Spirit artist from the Little Traverse Bay bands of Odawa Indians pursuing a degree in Sociology from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. She is the artist behind Queerkwe Designs where the purpose of her work is to create representation for LGBTQ and Two-Spirit Indigenous folks.
Beader
Carolyn L. Anderson
Carolyn L. Anderson is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota. She is an artist with experience in curation, and she was also a buyer of Indigenous art and jewelry for Birchbark Books and Native Arts where she worked for 16 years.Carolynstarted beadworking in 2020 and recently launched her own Native arts online shop called Old Cedar Native Arts.
BEADER
Amber Morseau
Amber Morseau, a Pokagon Band Citizen, Potawatomi from the Ann Arbor area, and alumna of Eastern Michigan University, is currently serving our communities as the Indigenous Institutional Transformation Specialist for the American Indian Higher Education Consortium. In 15 years of beadwork knowledge and 10 years of service to Native Students, she engages in mentorship with students through cultural activities including student beading circles. “Beadwork is a gift of love in a world where we need more of
it.”