INENAS in 2022: Reflections and Hope

Date and Time

September 28, 2022
06:00PM - 06:00PM EDT

Location

Barker Center, Room 114

NATIVE CULTURES OF THE AMERICAS

SPEAKER: Cedric Woods, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Cedric Woods is a citizen of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. He combines over a decade of tribal government experience with a research background and has served as the director of the Institute for New England Native American Studies (INENAS) since 2009.

The institute's purpose is to connect Native New England with university research, innovation, and education. Currently, Cedric is working on projects with tribes in the areas of tribal government capacity building, Indian education, economic development, and substance misuse prevention.