Jael Whitney Brothers

Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma
Assistant Director of Honoring Nations
Female with shoulder length brown hair, headshot image
jael_brothers@hks.harvard.edu

Jael Whitney Brothers is the Assistant Director for the Honoring Nations program at the Harvard Kennedy School Project on Indigenous Governance and Development. Prior to joining the Ash Center, Jael was a Program Officer for the Indigenous Communities Fellowship at MIT Solve. Before that, she was a Business Development Leader for AI & Sustainability software solutions at IBM, as well as an active part of the Social Impact and Engagement committee of IBM’s Native American Council ERG. 

Jael holds an M.A. in Community & Economic Development from Northwest University and a B.B.A. in Marketing from Kansas State University. In her free time, Jael also writes plays and exhibits glitch art around the Greater Boston area under the moniker @w3rmwood. Her works have been showcased by the Boston Center for the Arts, Huntington Theater, the Trustman Art Gallery at Simmons University, Boston Tech Poetics, and more.