about

I am an Indigenous (Blackfeet, Red River Métis) and white writer and researcher. Currently, I am a public health PhD student at the University of Minnesota.

I have worked as a freelance writer since 2017, publishing articles in Bitch Magazine, Yes! Magazine, TalkPoverty, Health Affairs, High Country News, Aperture, and other national media. I contributed chapters to the 2022 book Aftermath: Life In Post-Roe America from She Writes Press and the 2023 book Artists Remaking Medicine from Procedure Press. Read my writing here.

In addition to my writing, I have worked on research and program evaluation in various settings, including for a university-based social policy institute, a college in prison program, a member of Congress, and for tribal and urban Native organizations. Many of these projects directly engaged community members as co-leaders and co-thinkers throughout the research process. I am also an organizer, which has most recently included co-founding/managing a mutual aid fund for formerly incarcerated people in Missouri (2020-2022) and labor organizing in the Twin Cities (2022-present). 

I have received numerous national and local awards for my work, including the National Indian Health Board’s Local Impact Award. I have also been interviewed by the Star Tribune, Teen Vogue, the Associated Press, St. Louis Public Radio, and several podcasts. My writing and projects have been used in high school, college, and graduate classes and have been featured in the book Project Censored's State of the Free Press 2021, articles in Teen Vogue and LongReads, and the Youth Report by Protein. See media features here.

I’m an enrolled citizen of the Little Shell Chippewa tribe and a descendant of the Blackfeet tribe. I was raised in Salish country in Montana and currently live in Dakota and Ojibwe country in Minneapolis.