Tara Maudrie (PhD Candidate in Social and Behavioral Interventions Program at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, MSPH in Human Nutrition) is an enrolled citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians (Snapping Turtle Clan) and a public health researcher specializing in Indigenous food systems, nutrition, and health. Her community-based participatory research (CBPR) focuses on developing strengths-based, culturally grounded approaches to nutrition, with the goal of promoting holistic health and food sovereignty among Indigenous communities across North America.Tara has partnered with urban Native communities in Baltimore and Minneapolis, as well as tribal communities such as the Osage Nation, to advance food sovereignty and nutrition research. Her work is deeply informed by her family’s history of commercial treaty fishing, and she proudly continues these food sovereignty traditions through her own hunting, fishing, and foraging practices, which also shape her academic research.
