Breanna (Bree) Lameman is Diné from Shiprock, Diné Nation. She is a third-year PhD student at the University of Arizona in the health behaviors health promotion program with a focus in Indigenous food, energy, and water system (FEWS). She earned a Bachelor of Science in Public Health and a Master of Public Health in Health Promotion from the UA. Her life’s and heart work and values are grounded in the land, Diné cultural teachings, and lived experiences.

From a young age, she cares for the land by reclaiming and revitalizing traditional agricultural practices, which nurtured a deep relationship with food and ancestral foodways. Through her roles as a farmer, community member, relative, and aunty, she has come to understand the interconnectedness of ancestral foods, the land, water, animals, and her community.

Breanna is a MIT Indigenous Communities Fellow, First Nations Tribal Food Systems Research Fellow, a Tribal Agriculture Fellow, a Native Nations Institute Indigenous Data Sovereignty Doctoral Scholar, and a NDN Collective Changemaker Fellow. Her research focus is on Indigenous food sovereignty, food security, Indigenous data sovereignty, environmental justice, and the nexus of Indigenous FEWS. She is committed to promoting, protecting, and preserving her Diné culture and language and Indigenous relatives through Indigenous methodologies.