Suzanne Greenlaw

Suzanne Greenlaw is a citizen of the Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians.   Currently, Suzanne resides in Orono, Maine with her husband and children, where she is a doctoral student at the University of Maine in the School of Forest Resources. Suzanne’s academic research weaves Wabanaki traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and western scientific knowledge to address Wabanaki access restriction to cultural significant plants such as basket quality brown ash trees and sweet grass.

Saayli Kokitkar

Saayli Kokitkar is a third-year undergraduate student at Emory University, double majoring in Anthropology-Human Biology and Religion.  At Emory, Saayli is involved with research with the Rollins School of Public Health, creating and implementing an interprofessional educational (IPE) curriculum for interprofessional collaboration between the Emory Schools of Medicine, Nursing, and Public Health. Additionally, she is Co-PR chair of the Sustainability Club, is a part of the Sexual Assault Prevention Taskforce, and assists cancer patients use art as a form of therapy at the Winship Cancer Institute. Saayli is interested in the topics of health inequities and skepticism toward complementary and alternative medicine for writing her honors thesis at Emory University. After graduating from college, she plans to pursue a degree in medical anthropology and osteopathic medicine to focus on health disparities in Native American communities and underserved populations.

Raquel Romero

My name is Raquel Romero. I am a tribal member from Gila River Indian Community currently enrolled in Northern Arizona University’s MA Program for Applied Anthropology. I am very proud to be representing my tribe! Not only in northern Arizona, but in the field of archaeology. My leading goal while in graduate school is to learn about the types of outreach tribes and professional organizations are undertaking to expose indigenous youth to natural and cultural resources. In the future I would like to see an increase of tribal representation in both fields. A larger career goal for me is to have a role in encouraging the youth to appreciate our history and contribute to preserving our past.

Jude Wafai

Jude is a Syrian-American raised in Chicago, Illinois. She completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Notre Dame where she was a pre-med and Anthropology major. After taking a gap year to teach English at a Syrian refugee school in the Bekaa Valley of Lebanon, Jude began her interdisciplinary masters at the American University of Beirut in Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies, where she focused on refugee studies, education, and development. She is currently working on her master’s thesis titled, Education as Future-Making: The Dual-Experience of Displaced Syrians where she untangles the double-binds of participatory approaches to humanitarianism through the experiences of one Syrian family, deeply involved in the humanitarian responses to their own displacement.