

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

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

Mariama Dryak-Vallies
(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.

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

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

Fairuz Ishraque
PhD Student,
Princeton University

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

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
Research Physical Scientist
NOAA Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

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

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

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

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