Ursula Running Bear

Ursula Running Bear is an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota, also known as the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. She currently lives in Grand Forks, North Dakota, where she is an Assistant Professor in Population Health at the University of North Dakota in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Her work focuses on one type of historical trauma, the health effects of attending American Indian boarding school. Over the past six years she has studied and published papers on the relationship of boarding school attendance and physical health and is currently funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences with a small grant to study chronic stress and boarding school attendance.