

Mohammad Afzal Shadab (he/him)
Co-Chair
Future Faculty Postdoc Fellow,
Princeton University

Kevin Shionalyn
(they/them)
Ph.D. Candidate,
University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG)

Mariama Dryak (she/her)
PSECCO affiliate member
Director
Polar Science Early Career Community Office (PSECCO)
University of Colorado Boulder
Lives and works on Arapaho, Cheyenne & Ute lands

Olga Lauter (she/her)
Assistant Professor of Instruction
University of Texas at El Paso
Works on the ancestral lands of Lipan Apache, Mescalero Apache, Piro, Manso, Suma, Jumano.

Joy O'Brien (she/her)
PhD student,
Indiana University-Bloomington
Lives and works on myaamiaki, Lënape, Bodwéwadmik, and saawanwa lands.

Elena Adasheva (she/her)
PhD Candidate in Sociocultural Anthropology, Yale University
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Tim Hoheneder
(he/him)
Ph.D. Student,
Univ. of New Hampshire
Works in Unseated Homelands of the Pennacook, Abenaki, and Wabanaki Peoples

Jonathan Naoukin
(he/him)
Senior TEX-E Fellow,
UT Austin

Fairuz Ishraque
PhD Student,
Princeton University

Erika A.P. Schreiber (she/her)
Polar Engineer
UNAVCO Inc.
Works on Arapaho, Cheyenne and Ute Lands

Neosha Gupta Narayanan (they/she)
Ph.D. student
Georgia Institute of Technology (Muscogee land)

Meghan Helmberger (she/her)
Co-chair and PSECCO affiliate member
NSF Post doc Fellow,
Colorado State University

Liz Weinberg (she/they)
IARPC affiliate member
Engagement Director
Interagency Arctic Research Policy Committee (IARPC)
Lives and works on unceded Chinook lands

Zack Labe (he/him/his)
Research Physical Scientist
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory
Works on Lenape Lands

Tash Haycock-Chavez (she/her)
PSECCO-USAPECS liaison
Outreach and Network Manager
Exchange for Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic
NSIDC, CU Boulder
Lives and works on Chumash lands

Claire Moffett
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Peter Washam
(he/him)
Research Associate,
Cornell University
Works on the native lands of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation

Xia Li
(she/her)
Postdoctoral Research Associate,
Princeton University and NOAA GFDL
Works on Lenape Lands

Annika Margevich
(she/her)
PhD Candidate,
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Yale University
Works on the land of Mohegan, Mashantucket Pequot.

Izuchukwu Ezukanma
PhD Student,
University of Florida

Shreyas Gaikwad (he/him)
Website lead
Ph.D. Candidate
University of Texas at Austin

Irisa Tsai (she/her)
BS in Mathematics
University of Texas at Austin
Ex officio

Lavanya Ashokkumar (she/her)
Lecturer
University of Alabama Huntsville
Works on Tsalaguwetiyi and Chikashsha Yaki

Susan B. Vanek (she/her)
PhD Candidate - Anthropology
Binghampton University
(State University of New York)
I live and work in Nuuk, capital of Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland).
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