Tiffanie
Hardbarger

Tiffanie Hardbarger

Program Director, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative
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Tiffanie Hardbarger, a Cherokee Nation citizen of English/Irish and Cherokee ancestry, is currently the Program Director for the “Reclaiming & Restoring Indigenous Agriculture” program funded by the Native American Agriculture Fund and an Assistant Professor at Northeastern State University (NSU) in the Cherokee & Indigenous Studies Department. She received a Ph.D. in Community Resources & Development (Arizona State University, 2016) focused on sustainability, Indigenous-led community development and tourism, and decolonizing research methodologies.