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Meschelle Linjean, MSW (she/her/hers)

PhD Student
University at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY, United States

Meschelle Linjean, MSW (Cherokee Nation) is a 3rd-year PhD student in Social Welfare at the University at Buffalo, from which she earned her MSW in 2020. She is a co-author of the CSWE Teaching Guide: Repairing Harms Done to Indigenous and Tribal Peoples and a member of the Indigenous and Tribal Social Work Educators Association. Her research focuses on Indigenous adoptees’ (re)connectedness and relationships with the land, a topic she presented for the People's Global Summit on Co-building a New Eco-Social World. Broadly, her scholarship interests include land-/place-based pedagogy and land-based healing for Indigenous cultural continuity, resilience, and resurgence, as well as the intersections of environmental and reproductive justice. She has also published and presented on the importance of protecting the Indian Child Welfare Act. She received her BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and holds an MA in Sociology from New Mexico State University.

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