Samantha Chisholm Hatfield

Dr. Samantha Chisholm Hatfield is an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians, from the Tututni, Kalapuya, and Chinook Bands, and is also Yurok and Cherokee.
Dr. Chisholm Hatfield has earned an American Sign Language Interpretation certification, a Bachelor of Science in Ethnic Studies with a concentration in Native American studies and a minor in Cultural Anthropology from Oregon State University. She holds her Doctorate in Environmental Sciences from Oregon State University. Her pioneering dissertation work has been considered ground-breaking research and heralded for the way she has melded physical and social science, combining empirical research with social science methodology. Among other publications, she is an author for the forthcoming United States Fifth National Climate Assessment Report. She was the lead author of the Tribal Cultural Resources chapter for the state of Oregon’s fifth Oregon Climate Assessment Report.

Dr. Chisholm Hatfield's specializations include: Indigenous TEK, Indigenous responses and adaptation due to climate change, assessment of climate change impacts through Traditional Ecological Knowledge perspectives, and Indigenous culture issues. She's worked with Oregon Climate Change Research Institute, and successfully completed a Post-Doctoral Research position with Northwest Climate Science Center. She's spoken on national and international levels for such events as the First Stewards International Symposium, National Congress of American Indians, Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation, Korean Broadcasting System, UNESCO Intangible Culture Heritage Haenyeo commemoration, and TEDx. She's helped coordinate Tribal participation for the Northwest Climate Science Center and USGS Climate Boot Camp workshops. She is a Native American Longhouse Advisory Board member at Oregon State, was selected as an H.J. Andrews Forest Visiting Scholar, featured blogger for Union of Concerned Scientists, and twice chosen as a Korean Foundation Fellowship Field Research Scholar to study TEK in South Korea. Samantha is a photographer, author in fiction, non-fiction, and poetry, is currently learning Tolowa, Korean, as well as continuing her study of Chinook, and actively participates in her traditional cultural practices utilizing TEK. She also enjoys working on her family's farm, and spending time with family.