writer

My writing projects all center knowledge creation by marginalized communities, with a particular emphasis on health equity in Native communities. My writing has appeared in Bitch, Yes! Magazine, TalkPoverty, Health Affairs, High Country News, the 2022 book Aftermath: Life in Post-Roe America, and the 2023 book Artists Remaking Medicine.

researcher

As an aspiring scholar, I am invested in community-driven research to advance health equity, especially for currently and formerly incarcerated people and Indigenous communities. I’m currently a PhD student at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health.

things I’m proud of

• A podcast interview on decolonizing public health research. 

• A book chapter on abortion and Indigenous religious rights. 

• A label for the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Blackfeet gender and knowledge transmission.  

• A reentry resource guide for St Louis, made in collaboration with currently and formerly incarcerated people. 

• An oral-history project on Blackfeet food sovereignty, interviewing tribal elders.