Kianna Big Crow is Oglála Lakȟóta from the Oglala Sioux Tribe on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. In May of 2026, she earned her Master of Public Policy from the University of Maryland, building on her B.A. in Economics and Native American and...
Chief Mutáwi Mutáhash (Many Hearts) Marilynn “Lynn” Malerba became the 18th Chief of the Mohegan Tribe on August 15, 2010, and is the first female Chief in the tribe’s modern history. The position is a lifetime appointment made by the Tribe’s Council of...
Caleb is a Maui native and recently earned his PhD in Community Psychology from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Through a community psychology lens, we cannot focus only on the individual but must also look to the broader ecological context, and an...
Garret is a Student Intern for the Project on Indigenous Governance and Development. He is a sophomore at Dartmouth College with focuses in Economics and Native American and Indigenous Studies. Garret is from the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska and has...
Chris DeCoster is the Program Assistant to the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development, as well as the faculty assistant to Professor Randall Akee. Prior to joining the Harvard Project, he worked as a Data Assistant and Data Procurement...
Randall Akee was a Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles in the Department of Public Policy and American Indian Studies. At UCLA he served as the Chair of the American Indian Studies Department. He completed his Ph.D. at Harvard...
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...
Amy Besaw Medford is the Senior Program Director for the Project on Indigenous Governance and Development at the Harvard Kennedy School. The Project’s mission is to increase opportunities for collaborative research, learning, and teaching that improve the...
Eric Henson is the Director of the Ittapila Program for Nation Building Education and Outreach and is a lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard School of Design. Mr. Henson also works in economics consulting with Compass Lexecon.
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