Bonnie Cherry is a PhD Candidate in Jurisprudence and Social Policy and Berkeley Law. Her work explores the martial origins (and persisting militaristic dimensions) of the administrative state, and how the management of Indian affairs shaped civilian administrative policies and enforcement mechanisms from the earliest days of the nation. Her current project focuses on how Tribal nations either facilitate or resist militarization of Tribal lands. She is a Berkeley Empirical Legal Scholars Fellow, a John L. Simpson Research Fellow in International and Area Studies, and an AAUW Dissertation...
Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, UC Berkeley
Michelle Katuna is a graduate student in Environmental Science, Policy & Management. Michelle's research focuses on ongoing collaborations between Tribes, private landowners, and local environmental agencies and organizations to develop guidance for, and empirical evidence to support, Tribal and non-Native co-stewardship on private lands. Tribes are important actors in developing place-based solutions to environmental challenges, yet their decision-making authority over ancestral lands is often compromised by rules governing contemporary land holdings. Non-Native actors, including...