Kara Roanhorse is a member of the Navajo Nation from New Mexico. As a junior at Brown University, Kara is concentrating in public policy and ethnic studies to develop and research indigenous theory and tribal policy to serve Native youth. She successfully led student activist efforts to establish the first institutional recognition of Indigenous Peoples' Day by an Ivy League University, and has worked across the areas of education and environmental policy. Kara is a program coordinator for the Native American Heritage Series at Brown, a Udall Scholar, a Mellon Mays Fellow, and was previously a Climate and Development Lab researcher. Her current research focuses on Native youth narratives, online activism, and digital rights policy. Kara is passionate about photography, social media, and hockey.