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...
Tiya Miles is the Michael Garvey Professor of History and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. She is a public historian, academic historian, and creative writer whose work primarily explores the...
Michele Scott is a Tribal Councilor for the Mashantucket (Western) Pequot Tribal Nation. She is the Chairwoman for the Tribe’s Health & Human Services Committee and Economic Development Committee. Prior to being elected to the Tribal Council in 2022, she...
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...
Sarah Martin (she/her) is the Associate University Archivist for Community Engagement at the Harvard University Archives (HUA) and project manager for the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe–Harvard Library partnership. In her current role, Sarah leads the planning...
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...
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...
Christine DeLucia is Associate Professor of History at Williams College, and previously was Associate Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College. She received her undergraduate degree in History and Literature at Harvard College in 2006, an M.Litt. in...
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...
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...
Linda Coombs (Aquinnah Wampanoag) is an author and historian from the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah, and lives in the Wampanoag Community of Mashpee on Cape Cod, MA. Coombs began her museum career in an internship at the Boston Children’s Museum and later...
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...