Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative

Emma holds a bachelor’s degree in English and American Studies with concentration in Native American Studies from Amherst College, and a master’s degree in Native American Studies from the University of California, Davis. 

Emma is Anishinaabekwe and Lènapëxkwe by descent and was born and raised on Kaw, Comanche, Osage, and Pawnee land in what is now Great Bend, Kansas. Her interests include Indigenous teaching methodologies, and the intersections of Indigenous material cultures and literatures, with particular focus on material culture as a form of multimodal storytelling and Indigenous poetics.  

At NAISI, Emma is the primary contact for program coordination, administrative needs, communications, and outreach, and closely collaborates with related campus units.