Asani is active in the American Indian community and has been an advocate for Urban Indian education for over ten years. Originally from Southern California, Asani worked with Indian Ed. with the Los Angeles Unified School District as well as served with the Board of Directors of Prayer House Outreach 2000, an American Indian ministry program in Long Beach. She currently serves as the teacher representative for the Dallas Independent School District Indian Education Parent Advisory Committee. She is a staunch proponent for diversity awareness and multicultural education and developed an American Indian History curriculum for elementary grades. She regularly guest lectures on Urban Indian education and issues and offers assistance to local K-12 teachers with units on American Indians and literature.
When she is not teaching or writing, Asani tries to save her weekends for dancing Southern Women's Cloth at powwows. She describes competing at the Gathering of Nations Powwow as a vividly spectacular and humbling experience. Her dream is to buy an RV and travel the powwow trail from coast to coast with her husband and three children.
Ahani: Indigenous American Poetry, 2006
Yukhika-latuhse (She tells us stories), volume 3, Oneida Arts Program 2007
I was Indian, Native anthology edited by Susan Deer Cloud forthcoming
Yellow Medicine Review, Spring 2008
Prose
"A Red Road Retrospective"
The Red-Black Connection: Contemporary Urban African Native Americans and their stories of dual identity, by Valena Broussard Dismukes
Music
"Oh my, Oh my", source music for The Longest Yard, 2005 Sony Pictures
