Campo is a Kanienʼkehá:ka (Mohawk) member of the Six Nations of the Grand River. Raised in Tulsa, OK (Muscogee, Osage and Cherokee lands). As Executive Director of Words of the People, they empower Indigenous language creative production and lead initiatives that bring Indigenous language and creative production into contemporary spaces- because fluent futures demand more than preservation; they require celebration, innovation, and unyielding visibility.An interdisciplinary artist and organizer, their leadership spans over a decade of arts activism. Claire’s work bridges storytelling, liberation, and collective care. They co-founded Poetic Justice, bringing literacy and poetry workshops to carceral settings, (now in every prison in Oklahoma) that provided a framework for education as liberation. They served as Creative Director & Lead Educator for Louder Than a Bomb Oklahoma, instrumental in helping Tulsa launch the first regional offshoot of the Chicago program. Claire dedicated their time to mentoring youth in spoken word as a tool for self-determination and collective healing.Their poetry has appeared in This Land Press, Emerge Magazine, New Words Press, Frontier Poetry, Wayfarer Magazine and elsewhere. Claire’s leadership is grounded in the conviction that language and art are essential to Indigenous futurity.Their work has spanned community health advocacy, literary arts, and queer cultural production. Whether through their community health advocacy and HIV harm reduction work at Tulsa CARES, their literary arts curation with Living Arts of Tulsa and Oklahoma Literary Arts Alliance, or their queer production house, Swan Song Studios, they continue to foster radical storytelling and artistic expression.