Phoebe Young is a Saginaw Chippewa descendant from Michigan, born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in History and Ethnic Studies and worked in Minneapolis as the Community Programs Coordinator at Dream of Wild Health. She plans to study how resource extraction during the twentieth century in the Midwest has affected tribal sovereignty in Ojibwe communities, and how food sovereignty has served as a revitalization of culture, history, and tradition in the midst of these extraction projects. She hopes to develop this research into an indigenous food sovereignty curriculum for high school students.