Josephine Smith, Shinnecock, Joins Grinding Stone Collective

February 6, 2026

Josephine Smith, former Shinnecock Cultural Resources Department leader and community educator, has been named as part of Grinding Stone Collective’s Advisory Board.
Grinding Stone Collective Inc. is a grassroots 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to revitalizing traditional foodways and ecological knowledge through community-driven education, mutual aid, and land stewardship programs. They strengthen Indigenous Food Sovereignty by reconnecting urban and rural Native people to ancestral food systems, land-based practices, and one another. They strive to create new opportunities for Indigenous people to share their stories, values, and history with the larger inter-tribal community and allies.