Megan York (Cherokee Nation Citizen)
Megan York (she/her), is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, is the Education & Indigenous Studies Librarian and serves as the Vice-Chair of the Indigenous Employee Resource Group at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. She was born and mostly raised in Park Hill (Keys), Oklahoma which is within the Cherokee Nation tribal jurisdiction. Megan has her MLIS from the University of Oklahoma and is currently working on getting her EdD in Adult and Lifelong Learning where she hopes to focus her dissertation on Indigenous instructor pedagogical methodologies and pursuing a graduate certificate in Native American Studies from Montana State University. Megan is a member of the American Indian Library Association, Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, & Museums, and a former member of the Tribal Libraries Committee through the Oklahoma Library Association. Prior to working at the University of Arkansas, she was the Research Services Librarian at Oklahoma State University College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation, the nation’s only tribally affiliated medical school.