Sedonna Goeman-Shulsky
, University of California, Los Angeles

Sedonna Goeman-Shulsky (Tonawanda Band of Seneca) is a Ph.D. student at UCLA in the Institute of Environment and Sustainability and a Tribal Outreach contractor for the Native American Land Conservancy. She also received the Eugene V. Cota-Robles fellowship, the Graduate Research Mentorship program award at UCLA (2022-2023), and the Barbara Yablon Maida award in Geography and Environment and Sustainability (2022). Her current research interests include the meaning of access to land/water for Indigenous people. Native American studies, digital archiving, environmental justice, and environmental change are broad areas of intrigue. Her proposed dissertation research is to create a collaborative map and digital archive about the processes that lead to increased access to land for Indigenous people across the U.S. Sedonna is active in the Environmental Justice Working Group at UCLA. She plans to pursue a career in academia to support Indigenous students, tribes, and communities in their research goals.