Tara’s work centers Indigenous knowledge, governance, and kinship with land to examine the intersections of environmental history, conservation policy, and oil and gas development in Arctic Alaska. Her perspective as a Gwich’in and Filipina scholar from Dena'ina Ełnena (Anchorage, Alaska) and Vashrąįį K’ǫǫ (Arctic Village, Alaska) and as an enrolled member of the Native Village of Venetie Tribal Government informs her research on how Gwich’in relationships with the Porcupine caribou herd and tundra and water systems within the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge challenge conventional approaches to conservation and resource management while advancing Indigenous stewardship and self-determination. 

Luiz Paulo Ferraz's research examines the struggles for Indigenous rights and environmental protection in Brazil, exploring the interconnection of Indigenous and environmental history during the military dictatorship (1964-1985) and its aftermath from both a national and transnational perspective.

Courtney is a first-generation Syilx scholar and Ph.D. student whose research focuses on Indigenous fire stewardship and land use in the Pacific Northwest. Her work takes a community-engaged approach grounded in oral history.

She examines the intersections and tensions between Indigenous science and hegemonic models of scientific forestry, exploring how these frameworks have shaped forest management policy and practice. Their current research investigates Syilx participation in the forestry industry, the legacies of 20th-century forest policy in British Columbia and Washington, and the historical and ongoing role of cultural burning in Syilx territory. Her work examines how Indigenous fire ecologies are negotiated within contemporary fire management systems and the implications of integrating Indigenous knowledge into state-led strategies for wildfire coexistence.

Coleton Hast is a Ph.D. Student in the Department of Anthropology at Brown, where he focuses on language revitalization and reclamation in Taiwan, especially with the Amis community. He received his Master's in Ethnic Relations and Cultures from National Dong Hwa University's College of Indigenous Studies, where he studied the collaboration between Amis language activists and open source developers to create digital Amis language platforms. Coleton additionally volunteers with the non-profit 7000 Languages to help provide free software resources to Indigenous and endangered language activists.

Caleigh is a first-year master's student in the Public Humanities program at Brown University. She completed her bachelor's degree in English and Cinema & Media Studies at Oberlin College, where she wrote a Book Studies paper on a beaded Dakota Hymnal in Oberlin's special collections. She is interested in collaborating with tribal communities to center Indigenous voices in museums, archives, and other knowledge spaces.

Joyce's interests are in asking how nature acts simultaneously as an individual and collective entity with political desires and effects. Her focus is on the Andean regions of Peru and Bolivia, and how Native communities react and respond to such desires. Regions like the Altiplano have shaped the material politics of movements and resistance (e.g., rondas campesinas, bolivian water war, the dina boluarte dictorship), and Joyce is interested in exploring this relationship further in her graduate studies.

Billie (Ojibwe) is a cultural and historical sociologist interested in questions of tribal belonging and community agency. Her work employs a DuBoisian approach that aims to incorporate Indigenous knowledges in linking the lived experiences of community members to macro-level structures of policy, social movements, and ideologies. Her current research is a collaborative project with her tribal community (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians), in which she explores how actors across multiple generations have made space for themselves within the ever-changing American Indian identity. In doing so, Billie aims to create an empowering and informative archive for her community and shift the often damage-centered academic narratives around tribal communities toward ones of self-determination and survivance.

Laurel is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Slavic Studies department at Brown University. She completed her bachelor's degree in History at Mississippi State University and her master's in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her research focuses on the history of women and gender in Russian Alaska. She applies Indigenous methodologies to this area in hopes of helping decolonize the field of Slavic Studies. This summer, Laurel visited Kodiak Island in Alaska, where she examined museum archives and met with local Alutiiq community members to discuss her research on Kodiak Alutiiq oral histories as a means of rematriating Alutiiq motherhood and birthing practices.