People
Staff
Randall Akee
Native Hawaiian
Director, Project on Indigenous Governance and Development and Julie Johnson Kidd Professor of Indigenous Governance and Development, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
Amy Besaw Medford
abmedford@hks.harvard.eduBrothertown
Senior Program Director
Director, Honoring Nations
Chris DeCoster
Program Assistant, Faculty Assistant
Eric C. Henson
eric_henson@hks.harvard.eduChickasaw
Program Director, Ittapila Program for Nation Building Education and Outreach
Lecturer
Joseph P. Kalt
joe_kalt@harvard.eduDirector (Emeritus), Project on Indigenous Governance and Development and Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy (Emeritus), Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
Jael Whitney Brothers
Choctaw
Assistant Director of Honoring Nations
Annabel Yu
Student Intern
Affiliates
Amber Annis
Cheyenne River Sioux
Research Affiliate
Donald "Del" Laverdure
Crow
Research Affiliate
Michael Lucas
Research Affiliate
Heather Raftery
Research Affiliate
Kāwika Riley
Native Hawaiian
Research Fellow
Drake Rushford
Visiting Researcher, Spring Semester (2026)
Alyssa Schatz
Research Affiliate
Laura Taylor
Research Fellow
Burton Warrington
Menominee, Prairie Band Potawatomi, and Ho-Chunk
Research Affiliate
Jennifer Weddle
Research Affiliate