Phoebe Young

Phoebe Young is a Saginaw Chippewa descendant from Michigan, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York and currently residing in Minneapolis. She attended Brown University and as a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow completed her thesis in the Ethnic Studies Department. Her research focused on how the founders of Brown University were involved in colonization of Rhode Island and the transatlantic slave trade.  Prior to joining the University of Minnesota as a PhD student, she worked as the Community Programs Coordinator at Dream of Wild Health, a Native-led nonprofit focused on restoring health and wellbeing to the Twin Cities Native American community by recovering knowledge of and access to traditional foods, medicines, and lifeways. In her doctorate research, she is interested in studying how resource extraction during the twentieth century in the Midwest has affected tribal sovereignty in Ojibwe communities, and how food sovereignty has served as a revitalization of culture, history, and tradition in the midst of these extraction projects.