User:Meredithlmccoy

I am a Ph.D. candidate in American Indian and Indigenous Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In my work, I study federal Indian education policy history with a focus on federal funding and the relationship between tribal, federal, and state governments. I am a former public school teacher, a former Policy Assistant at the White House Initiative on American Indian and Alaska Native Education, a former tribal college instructor, and a graduate of the Native Leadership Institute, a leadership development program at UNC-Chapel Hill that provides training in strategies to support tribal sovereignty through finance and governance. Guiding my work is a commitment to Native Nations, particularly the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians of which my father is a citizen. In the interest of disclosure, I would like to share that I am interested in being involved with Wikipedia in order to increase the amount of information available here that is written by, for, and with Indigenous people.