Bringing STEM, Data & AI Skills to Indian Country
Native BioData Consortium (NativeBio) advises and trains tribes and students on the ethical use of and collection and research with Indigenous data. NativeBio also educates the next generation of Indigenous health researchers, data science professionals, and bioinformatics and AI specialists.
Tribal Programs
NativeBio provides tribal programs that support tribal data sovereignty These educational programs are developed with tribes and often with tribal agencies or other American organizations. Please contact us to work with your tribe to help develop a program suited to your tribal needs.
Developed With Tribes, For Tribes
Indigidata Workshop
IndigiData is a one-week (4-6 days) Indigenous data science education workshop held each summer to introduce data science and informatics skills to undergraduate and graduate students. We offer an Indigenous-centered curriculum that is led by a community of Indigenous data scientists and guest faculty. All of our workshop activities will center Indigenous data sovereignty and data ethics while also providing students valuable insight into the emerging data and technology career fields. IndigiData was started and continues to be led by NativeBio co-founder Krystal Tsosie and Matt Anderson. IndigiData was started and continues to be led by NativeBio cofounder, Krystal Tsosie and Matt Anderson.
Next Generation Capacity Building
SENAHD Initiative
The Southeast Native American Health DNA (SENAHD) initiative works to safely and ethically bring the benefits of health and wellness innovations through big data and genomic medicine to tribal communities in the American Southeast. SENAHD was launched by Lisa Villamil, a professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Joseph Yracheta, NativeBio's executive director. In 2020, SENAHD hosted the first symposium held in the Southeast on Indigenuos data sovereignty for tribal health leaders and health researchers. SENAHD continues to provide consulting services to Southern tribes, , supporting their efforts to strenghen tribal data sovereignty.
Data Sovereignty Knowledge Sharing
