Zoë Harris, MPH

Zoë Harris is a citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and has worked with her own tribal community as well as urban Native populations on topics of education, health promotion, and language preservation. Zoë is also a Jamaican citizen and has family roots in Selma, Alabama. Therefore, she strives to educate people on the unique experiences of Afro-Native people and the intersectionality that exists within all communities.  She is also a Community Health Sciences PhD candidate at the UIC School of Public Health. Since her time at UIC, she has worked at NASP in various capacities and is the founder of the Indigenous Graduate Student Association at UIC. Her dissertation is focused on the application of Indigenous methodology to secondary data, using police violence as the area of focus. In addition to her research, Zoë holds several service roles at organizations such as the American Public Health Association and Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project.  In her free time, she loves cultivating plants and practicing traditional finger weaving.