Meredith Vasta is a Collections Steward at the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. Currently, as a Collections Steward she focuses on the museum’s...
David Weeden is the Tribal Historic Preservation Officer for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. He also served on the Tribal Council for his Nation and co-leads the Historic Preservation Commission. Councilman Weeden is also on the Select Board for the Town of...
Saffron Hooper Sener (she/her) is a feminist scholar of Great Lakes environmental history in her third-year at Harvard. She focuses on histories of gender, sexuality, and the body as they intersect with the unique ecologies of the region and the American...
Paula Peters is a politically, socially, and culturally active member of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and owner of SmokeSygnals Communications. As an independent scholar and writer of Native, and particularly Wampanoag history, she is a producer of the...
Rachel E. Wilbur, PhD, MPH, is an Assistant Research Professor with IREACH in the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine. She is descendant Tolowa and Chetco and grew up in northern California and western Washington state. Her research focus is on the role of...
Kimberly Toney is an enrolled member of the Hassanamisco Band of Nipmuc and is the Inaugural Coordinating Curator of Native American and Indigenous Collections, jointly appointed to the John Carter Brown and John Hay Libraries at Brown University. Kim has...
Shaquanna Sebastian is a dedicated member of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation, currently serving as the Digital Communications Manager for the Mashantucket Pequot Communications Department. She is actively involved in various community initiatives...
Majel Peters is a Mashpee Wampanoag communications professional with 20 years of experience working in marketing and design, and a Master's candidate in the Digital Humanities program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her passion lies in the art and practice...
Joseph P. Gone (Aaniiih-Gros Ventre) is an international expert in the psychology and mental health of American Indians and other Indigenous peoples. A professor at Harvard University, he has collaborated with tribal communities for 30 years to critique...
Mary Amanda McNeil is a Mashpee Wampanoag scholar with deep kinship ties to the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah. She is Mellon Assistant Professor in the Department of Studies in Race, Colonialism, and Diaspora at Tufts University and Curator and...
Lorén M. Spears, enrolled Narragansett Tribal Nation citizen and Executive Director of Tomaquag Museum, holds a master’s in education and received a Doctor of Humane Letters, honoris causa in 2017, from the University of Rhode Island and Doctor of...
Sahir Iqbal, MPH, is a public health researcher and filmmaker whose work focuses on community-led approaches to Indigenous health and well-being. Trained in Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, his work sits at...