Timotéo(Téo) Ikoshy Montoya II (he/him) is a writer, multimedia artist, and rite of passage guide in training with School of Lost Borders. He is a creative writing MFA candidate at The Institute of American Indian Arts, hosts The Indigenous Futures Podcast, and shares other creations and conversations at ARCHAIC_INTERFACE, a multimedia exploration of post-human, postcolonial, and Indigenous futurisms.

A cultural and racial hybrid, Téo’s heritage spans Scottish-French roots through Kentucky and Indigenous ancestry from Southern Texas. An enrolled member of The Lipan Apache Band of Texas, he was raised in the Sierras of Northern California, and studied Cultural Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz, with a focus on the impacts of colonization on Indigenous diets. He now resides in O’Ga P’Ogeh, on the lands of the Tewa peoples (currently known as Santa Fe, New Mexico).

With a decade of IT experience, Téo provides operations and media support to organizations. As a board member of Wild Mountain, and the native-led nonprofit The Cultural Conservancy, Téo is committed to upholding Traditional Ecological Knowledge, kin-making with the more-than-human world, and rites of passage as vital cultural technologies needed to meet the crises unfurling from our hyper/dis-connected globalized world.