Bio

Oki Nitsiitapi Nidaniko Natoyiipoka, Nistoo Amskapipikuniaki and Métis.

Born in Montana and having grown up in Washington State, Celina Gray calls the Pacific Northwest home. Celina’s scholarly motivation is grounded in her family; being a mother of 4, it’s important for her to model relational responsibility to natural resources grounded in cultural knowledge, like it was provided to her by her father and others through communal ties.

Celina completed her bachelor’s in wildlife & fisheries biology at Salish Kootenai College on the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana. She is currently studying mixed-method research of cultural keystone species in the Human Dimensions Lab under Libby Metcalf within the UM wildlife biology program. Celina has a passion for tribal food sovereignty, tribal environmental law, science and policy, and increasing diversity and inclusion in the field of wildlife biology and conservation.

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