Ashley L. Landers

I am an Assistant Professor of Human Sciences in the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. I conduct research in partnership with First Nations Repatriation Institute that focuses on the health and well-being of Native American families impacted by family separation via foster care and adoption. I have published 31 articles on family separation, child welfare, and reunification. This scholarship is used to achieve social change in response to identified needs within the Indigenous community. This includes being cited by Justice Neil Gorsuch in his Supreme Court ruling to uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act (2023); in The Supreme Court of the United States Tribal amicus brief in the case of the Cherokee Nation, Oneida Nation, Quinault Indian Nation, and Morongo Band of Mission Indians vs. Chad Evert Brackeen (2021); and in The Supreme Court of the State of Washington by Justice Montoya-Lewis (2020).