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The Indian Health Service on May 6 announced that Benjamin Smith, an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, is the new deputy director at IHS headquarters.

On April 29, Lashawna Tso was named the new executive director of the Navajo Nation Washington Office.

Alvin Harvey is a doctoral candidate in aeronautics and astronautics (AeroAstro) whose research interests include safeguarding the health of astronauts on space flights. He aspires to be an astronaut one day.

She’s running for Miss Illinois Teen USA to mark the Native community in Chicago on the map and illuminate Indigenous issues across the country.

Jack C. Jackson, Jr., Diné, who was born and raised on the Navajo Nation in Arizona, in April was appointed by the Biden-Harris administration as tribal liaison in the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs at the U.S. Department of Labor.