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 

• 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: Posters

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

• 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

• 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: Posters

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