8:30 am: Breakfast and Registration

9:00 am: Welcome by Megan Bang, CNAIR Director, Land Acknowledgment - Kennedy Naseem and Olivia Bailey, NAISA Co-Chairs, Prayer and Song 

 9:30 am - 10:30 am: Keynote - Melissa Walls, (Anishinaabe), Co-Director, Center for Indigenous Health and Professor of American Health, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University 

10:30 am -12pm: Panel I: Interdisciplinary Perspectives: Integrating knowledges 

This panel highlights scholars who are incorporating Indigenous methods and knowledges within and across a range of disciplines. The panel is intended to highlight key insights and issues in their specific work as well as to explore the variety of methodological approaches in their disciplines. Scholars on this panel reflect communication studies, anthropology, theater, heritage language and computer science.  

Moderator – Michael Turcios, Assistant Professor, Screen Cultures Program, Department of  Radio/Television/Film, School of Communication, Northwestern University

Ian Her Many Horses, (Sicangu Lakota Oyate) Assistant Teaching Professor, School of Education, University of Colorado Boulder

Bethany Hughes, (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), Assistant Professor, American Culture, University of Michigan

Diego Arispe-Bazán, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Faculty Fellow, Buffett Institute for Global Affairs, Northwestern University

12:00 pm - 1 pm:  Lunch

1 pm -1:30 pm:  Project Highlight:

The Ojibwe Muzzeniegun Digital Archive

Kelly Wisecup, Arthur E Andersen Teaching and Research Professor, Professor of English

1:30 pm -2:30 pm:  Elevating Indigenous Knowledge Exchange

Research Fellows, Faculty, Graduate students, Undergraduate students from Northwestern, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and local partnership institutions will be sharing and presenting their Indigenous focused work

2:30 pm - 3 pm: Networking Break (Coffee service/snack)

3 pm -4:30 pm:  Panel II: Maternal Health and the well-being of the next generation

Improving the well-being of mothers, infants, and children is an important public health goal for most communities and especially the Indigenous community given our specific histories and challenges. Mothers’ well-being consequentially shapes the health of the next generation and can impact future public health challenges for families, communities, and the healthcare system.  

Moderator – Melissa Walls, (Anishinaabe), Co-Director, Center for Indigenous Health and Professor of  American Health, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins University

Deana Around Him (Cherokee Nation), Research Scholar for Indigenous Children, Youth and Families, Child Trends 

Camie Goldhammer (Sisíthuŋwaŋ-Waȟpéthuŋwaŋ Oyáte), founding executive director, Hummingbird Indigenous Family Services

Ninah Divine, Family Physician, Gerald Ignace Indian Health Center, Milwaukee, WI

 8:30am: Breakfast and registration

 9:00 am -9:05 am: Welcome - Megan Bang, CNAIR Director 

9:05 am-10 am:  Keynote - Bryan Brayboy (Lumbee), Dean, Carlos Montezuma Professor of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University 

10 am -11:30 am Panel III: Economic Development: Eyes to the Future

This panel features scholars, entrepreneurs, and leaders from Indigenous communities fostering Indigenous economic research and economic development within their communities and nationally. Their work is supporting economic sovereignty and improving the quality of life for Indigenous communities. 

Moderator – Colleen Echohawk (Upper Athabascan/Kithehaki Band of Pawnee), President, 

Headwater People Consulting, LLC

Shelly Tucciarelli (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin), Executive Director, Visionary Ventures

Kelly Hallman (Cherokee Nation), Founder, Executive Director, Indigenous Justice Circle

Megan Minoka Hill (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin), Senior Director, Project on Indigenous Governance and Development Director, Honoring Nations, Ash Center for Democratic Governance, Harvard Kennedy School

11:30 am -12:30 pm: Elevating Indigenous Knowledge Exchange

Research Fellows, Faculty, Graduate students, Undergraduate students from Northwestern, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and local partnership institutions and organizations will be sharing and presenting their Indigenous focused work

12:30 pm -1:15 pm: LUNCH 

1:15 pm -1:45pm: Project Highlight: 

Research for Indigenous Social Action and Equity Center (RISE)

Jacqueline Schram, Director, Northwestern University

1:45 pm -2 pm: Networking Break (Coffee service/snack)

2:00 pm -3:30 pm: Elevating Indigenous Knowledge Exchange: Roundtables

Research Fellows, Faculty, Graduate students, Undergraduate students from Northwestern, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and local partnership institutions and organizations will be sharing and presenting their Indigenous focused work

3:30 pm:  Closing remarks and reflection