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Saraya Hamidi

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Bio

Hi! I am a Cherokee Nation citizen and Master of Tribal Resource and Environmental Stewardship student at the University of Minnesota, Duluth. I also work full-time at a conservation finance nonprofit called Blue Forest, where I serve as an Indigenous Partnerships Manager, partnering with Native Nations to support forest and landscape resilience across the Pacific West. After graduating from Columbia with a Bachelor's in Financial Economics, I joined Google to support digital marketing for small businesses across the country. It being the year 2020, I dove into supporting racial justice movements through social media, building and supporting digital campaigns that earned features in The New York Times, CNN, and Good Morning America. I was later named one of Change.Org's Top 10 Changemakers of 2020. Shortly thereafter, I joined Change.org's team to drive racial and environmental justice movements and, later, Blue Forest to support Indigenous land stewardship.

Education

University of Minnesota-Duluth

Master's degree program
2023 - 2025
  • Majors:
    • American Indian/Native American Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
    • Natural Resources and Conservation, Other

Columbia University in the City of New York

Bachelor's degree program
2016 - 2020
  • Majors:
    • Business, Management, Marketing, and Related Support Services, Other
    • Finance and Financial Management Services

Hun School Of Princeton

High School
2012 - 2016

Miscellaneous

  • Desired degree level:

    Doctoral degree program (PhD, MD, JD, etc.)

  • Graduate schools of interest:

  • Transfer schools of interest:

  • Majors of interest:

    • Law
    • Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy
  • Not planning to go to medical school
  • Career

    • Dream career field:

      Environmental Services

    • Dream career goals:

      Research

      • Environmental/Natural Resources Management and Policy

        Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals — Co-author on publication to be released late 2024
        2023 – Present

      Public services

      • Volunteering

        George Floyd Memorial Foundation — Scholarship Selection Committee Member
        2021 – 2022
      • Volunteering

        Tsalagi (Cherokee) Los Angeles) — Board member
        2023 – Present

      Future Interests

      Advocacy

      Volunteering

      Philanthropy