Raye Zaragoza will perform in the Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s McCoy Studio Theater on Wednesday. RAY ZARAGOZA courtesy photo

Debuted on Indigenous Peoples’ Day  on Oct. 10, the Netflix kids’ show “Spirit Rangers” features a catchy theme song co-composed and sung by Raye Zaragoza, who will perform in the Maui Arts & Cultural Center’s McCoy Studio Theater on Wednesday.

Lauded by NPR as “one of the most fresh and compelling voices in folk music today,” and by PopMatters as “a voice made for our times, speaking truth to power,” Zaragoza is excited about the show and her participation.

“It’s been incredible,” said Zaragoza, who is part Akimel O?otham Native American, Mexican and Japanese. “I’ve written over 45 songs for the show. It’s a total dream come true.”

The widely praised animated series involves three Native American Junior Rangers who can transform into super-powered spirits to help protect the national park that they call home.

Celebrating Indigenous storytelling, some future episodes will include Hawaii themes. “We have at least a couple of episodes in season two specifically about our indigenous relatives from the Hawaiian islands,” she explained. “It’s really exciting.”

Besides “Spirit Rangers,” Zaragoza’s music has popped up a fair bit on TV this year, including on the soundtrack of SYFY’s show “Resident Alien,” as well as “The Kardashians,” and a collaboration with Viv Parker was featured ABC’s “Grey’s Anatomy.”

As far as other collaborations, she teamed in the summer with Oahu-born reggae singer KBong for the upbeat love song “Call Home.” And late last year she recorded a new version of her song “The It Girl,” with Brooke Simpson, a member of the Haliwa-Saponi tribe, seen on “The Voice” and “America’s Got Talent.”

“I was living in a world that wasn’t made for brown skin girls,” Zaragoza sings on “The It Girl.” It’s one of the powerful songs from her most recent album “Woman in Color,” which was inspired by a mission to bring justice and equality to those who have been marginalized and maligned.

” ‘The It Girl’ is a song about being insecure about having brown skin and being mixed race, and then growing up and actually those are my super powers,” she said. “Those are the things that I love most about myself. It sums up a lot of my life and my feelings towards the lack of diversity in entertainment and how in my career I want to change that and really uplift other diverse stories.”

Having once felt alienated from her mixed racial background, making “Woman in Color” proved healing for her. “My music has been a healing part of my life,” she said. “Music has been my way of telling my story because I felt so long for my whole life disassociated from every aspect of my racial background. I was very all American, born and raised in New York City. But being so many different racial backgrounds was overwhelming. It’s almost like you default to nothing. I felt I had no identity as a kid. Then I realized music was my way of telling my story and becoming my own identity.”

Another potent song, “Change Your Name,” depicts her mother’s immigration from Japan and her family’s decision to give her an American name. Zaragoza subsequently released a video featuring folks from around the country who had also Americanized their names to fit in.

“My mom had to change her name when she moved to the United States when she was a three-year-old,” she noted. “Her parents asked an American soldier stationed in Japan, what shall we name our daughter? And he said name her Shirley, because Shirley Temple was really popular.”

Among her earlier inspired songs, she highlighted the Dakota Access Pipeline protests with “Driving to Standing Rock.” “Being part of that movement definitely shaped me as an artist, and showed me that music can be the soundtrack of a movement and it’s really important to write songs about these critical times in our history and to write songs about fighting for indigenous land and water. It’s like a part of my duty.”

Zaragoza feels aligned with a continuum of activist artists who have inspired others over the years. “It means a lot to me to create music with a message and to be part of a lineage of songwriters who have used music as a way to make change in the world and spreading awareness. I hope my music heals people and leaves them feeling fueled and filled and hopeful.”

Raye Zaragoza performs in the MACC’s McCoy Studio Theater  at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday. Tickets are $35 (plus applicable fees), with a 10 percent discount for MACC members, and half price for children 12 and under. Ticket sales are online only.