Cynthia
Wilson
2025-2026 Mellon Foundation Native American Scholars Initiative Predoctoral Fellow
Cynthia Wilson (Diné) is a PhD Candidate at UC Berkeley in Environmental Science, Policy, and Management. A nutritionist by training, her research centers interdisciplinary approaches to Indigenous environmental health, kinship mobility, and Diné foodways. Since 2016, she co-led community-based traditional foods program and ancestral lands advocacy at Bears Ears National Monument.