Debra Harry

She currently serves as a Teaching Associate Professor for the Gender, Race, and Identity Department at the University of Nevada, Reno. She has previously served as adjunct faculty since 2013. Dr. Harry's research analyzes the linkages between biotechnology, intellectual property and globalization in relation to Indigenous peoples' rights. She previously served as the Executive Director of the Indigenous Peoples Council on Biocolonialism (IPCB), a U.S.-based non-profit organization created to assist Indigenous peoples in the protection of their genetic resources, Indigenous knowledge, and cultural and human rights from the negative effects of biotechnology. Dr. Harry is also the founder and director of Pesa Nadayadu Poenabe Madabwe (making good strong leaders) Emerging Indigenous Leaders Institute, a program designed to cultivate a new generation of leadership committed to the protection and perpetuation of the rights, culture, and lifeways of Indigenous peoples in the Great Basin bio-cultural region.