Dr. Margaret Moss in the Anti-Racism Speaker Series

Dr. Margaret Moss in the Anti-Racism Speaker Series

Margaret P. Moss, PhD, JD, RN, FAAN, is an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation (Three Affiliated Tribes of North Dakota), and is also Dakhóta. Dr. Moss is the first and only American Indian to hold both nursing and juris doctorates. She has been a nurse for 32 years, a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing, and was recently elected to the Board of Directors.  She was also appointed to the Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice (BPH) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (2021). Dr. Moss was one of two Indigenous women named on the inaugural Forbes 50 over 50 Impact List 2021. She published the first ever nursing text on American Indian health, winning two book-of-the-year awards (2016). Dr. Moss has been a RWJF Health Policy Fellow staffing the Senate Special Committee on Aging; a Fulbright Research Chair at McGill University on Indigenous contexts; and currently is Associate Vice President of Equity and Inclusion, Interim at the University of British Columbia.