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

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Amy Besaw Medford

abmedford@hks.harvard.edu

Brothertown

Senior Program Director

Director, Honoring Nations

Kianna Big Crow

kbigcrow@hks.harvard.edu

Oglála Thítȟuŋwaŋ

Outreach and Communications Coordinator

Jael Brothers

jael_brothers@hks.harvard.edu

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma

Assistant Director of Honoring Nations

Chris DeCoster

Program Assistant, Faculty Assistant

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Eric C. Henson

eric_henson@hks.harvard.edu

Chickasaw

Program Director, Ittapila Program for Nation Building Education and Outreach

Lecturer

Miriam R. Jorgensen

miriam_jorgensen@harvard.edu

Research Director

Marilynn Malerba

Mohegan Tribe

Senior Fellow in Indigenous Governance and Development

Garret Morgan

Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska

Summer 2026 Research Assistant

Caleb Rivera

Kanaka ʻŌiwi

Post-Doctoral Research Fellow

Annabel Yu

Student Intern

Affiliates

Amber Annis

Cheyenne River Sioux

Research Affiliate

Misko Beaudrie

miskodagaaginkwe@gmail.com

Anishinaabe

Research Affiliate

Stephen Cornell

IndigenousGov@hks.harvard.edu

Director (Emeritus)

Catherine Curtis

catherine_curtis@ksg.harvard.edu

Research Affiliate

Joseph P. Kalt

joe_kalt@harvard.edu

Director (Emeritus), Project on Indigenous Governance and Development and Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy (Emeritus), Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University