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2023
Bush Fellowship

Farhia Budul embraced her culture, community, and faith to achieve recovery. Her experience led her to develop culturally specific recovery support for her fellow East Africans in Minnesota.

2023
Bush Fellowship

St. Paul, MN — Noel Nix knows from experience that good intentions and ideas are not enough to create lasting change; meaningful action is also necessary. In his positions as a St.

2023
Bush Fellowship

Mobridge, SD — Tasha Peltier (Hunkpapa Lakota, Standing Rock Nation) is on a mission to help Indigenous communities reclaim their health and wellness. She wants to start with her homelands, the Standing Rock Nation.

2023
Bush Fellowship

Hopkins, MN — Rebecca Polston is committed to improving Black maternal health care.

2023
Bush Fellowship

Apple Valley, MN — Neerja Singh believes that no public policy decision should be made without authentic community engagement.

2023
Bush Fellowship

Rapid City, SD — Marie Zephier (Oglala Lakota Nation) is passionate about helping people heal by reconnecting to Indigenous ways. She wants Native people to have access to the healing she has found through culture.

2022
Bush Fellowship

Cloquet, MN — Rebekah Dunlap (Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior) is determined to reclaim and revitalize traditional Ojibwe practices related to parent and child health.

2022
Bush Fellowship

Saint Louis Park, MN — Dr. Rahel Nardos has a bold vision for ending health disparities for women and girls.

2022
Bush Fellowship

Cottage Grove, MN — Pahoua Yang, Ph.D., believes in the power of cultural healing. A leader at Amherst H.

2021
Bush Fellowship

Saint Cloud, MN — Kahin Adam is on a mission to decrease barriers to culturally relevant health care and mental health services for immigrants and refugees.

2021
Bush Fellowship

Golden Valley, MN — Dr. Rachel Renee Hardeman comes from people who are deeply committed to Black liberation. She was raised to question everything, seek the truth and use it to create change.

2021
Bush Fellowship

Bemidji, MN — Natalie Nicholson (Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation) understands the persistence required to achieve a dream. The former Olympian and world champion curler was also a first-generation college student.