Ms. Lynn Mad Plume is a member of the  Amskapi Piikani (Blackfeet Nation) from Two Medicine, MT., located on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. Lynn comes from the Green Wood Burner society located along the lower Two Medicine River, where her people still reside today. Lynn completed a Master of Public Health with a specialization in American Indian Public Health from North Dakota State University in 2019. Lynn completed her undergraduate degree in community health, with a minor in sociology at Montana State University in 2016. Lynn is nearing completion of a PhD in Indigenous Health from the University of North Dakota, graduating August, 2024. Lynn is passionate about improving the lives of Indigenous communities through policy development and culturally responsive research methodologies. Culturally responsive methodologies re-center Indigenous peoples within their ways of knowing. Lynn’s research focuses are; Indigenous Evaluation, Arts-Based Research Methods, Culturally-Responsive Methodology,  Indigenous/Native knowledge production, Indigenous Methodology and Healing-Centered Engagement.