Indigenous Global Student Network
Through our Student Ambassadors, INIHKD is creating space for Indigenous students to connect, share, collaborate, and actively participate in the expanding INIHKD Indigenous Global Student Network.
INIHKD 2026 Student ambassadors
Tia "tee" Benally
USA
Tia “Tee” Benally (she/her) is Diné and White Mountain Apache originally from the Navajo reservation in New Mexico. She is a Research Coordinator at the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute. Tee holds an MPH from the University of Washington. Tee leads a post-doctoral fellowship focused on HIV/AIDS prevention in Indigenous communities and supports land-based healing programs for youth. Her work centers Indigenous social determinants of health, food sovereignty, and Indigenous data sovereignty. Tee is dedicated to advancing equitable, community-led research and strengthening systems that support and include culture for health and wellness within Native communities.
Jasmine Sampson
Aotearoa
Jasmine Sampson Ngā Wairiki Ngāti Apa, Ngā Paerangi, Ngāti Kuri, Te Whānau a Apanui. Master’s Degree in Māori and Pacific Development.
Jasmine is a kaupapa Māori researcher currently completing her PhD studies with Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi. Working for Atlantic Fellows for Social Equity and contributing to her tribal research centre (He Waka Uruora) she continues to work in marae, hapū and iwi spaces.
SAntino "Tino" Camacho
Guåhan & USA
Santino (Tino) Camacho (he/they) is a Gela’ CHamoru social work scholar and multimedia artist from the island of Guåhan. Tino is a community-embedded scholar who collaborates closely with his communities in Duwamish lands in Washington — Guma’ Gela’ Queer and Trans Chamoru Art Collective, the United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance of Washington, and the QTPI Village — to conduct research that promotes Queer and Transgender Pacific Islander health and wellbeing. Tino also serves as a Co-Investigator at the Ola Pasifika Research Lab at the University of Washington School of Social Work. This Pasifika research group seeks to advance health justice for Pasifika communities through participatory research. His research aims to empower QTPI’s culturally resurgent practices that resist settler colonial constructions of Indigeneity and illuminate their use within community-based and culturally-grounded healing and health promotion practices.
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Incubated by the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute, University of Washington
