Stephanie Russo Carroll, DrPH, MPH
Ahtna, from the Native Village of Kluti-Kaah, and Sicilian-descent
Pronouns: She/Her
Position(s):
Collaboratory Leader
Associate Professor, University of Arizona
Email me: stephaniecarroll@arizona.edu
Follow me: @scbegonias
Dr. Stephanie Russo Carroll (she/her) is Ahtna, a citizen of the Native Village of Kluti-Kaah in Alaska, and of Sicilian-descent. Based at the University of Arizona (UA), she is Associate Professor, Public Health and American Indian Studies Graduate Interdisciplinary Program; Associate Research Professor, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and its Native Nations Institute; and Affiliate Faculty in the College of Law. Stephanie directs the interdisciplinary research group the Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance which develops research, policy, and practice innovations for Indigenous Data Sovereignty. Her research, teaching, and engagement seek to transform institutional governance and ethics for Indigenous control of Indigenous data, particularly within open science, open data, and big data contexts. Stephanie co-edited the book Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Policy and led the publication of the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance. Stephanie co-founded the US Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network and co-founded and chairs the Global Indigenous Data Alliance (GIDA), the International Indigenous Data Sovereignty Interest Group at the Research Data Alliance, and the Indigenous Data Working Group for the IEEE P2890 Recommended Practice for Provenance of Indigenous Peoples’ Data. Stephanie is a founding board member for the Copper River Tribal College in Chitina, Alaska. Stephanie received her AB from Cornell University and MPH and DrPH from the UA. Stephanie’s research explores the links between Indigenous governance, data, the environment, and community wellness. Stephanie offers Indigenous women-led mentoring of undergraduate students through junior faculty and research staff with the goal of producing policy-relevant research through skill and knowledge acquisition that forefront Indigenous ways of knowing and being. The Collaboratory’s disciplinary breadth includes public health, law, business, geography, library and information sciences, data science, sociology, social work, public policy, and environmental and climate sciences. Stephanie was a founding member of the UA’s American Indian and Indigenous Health Alliance Club and is a founding member and past president for the UA Native Faculty, working to support the recruitment and retention of Indigenous students and faculty at the UA.
📍 On the unceded traditional homelands of the Tohono O’odham Nation and the lands of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe
Publication(s):
Carroll, Stephanie Russo, Ibrahim Garba, Rebecca Plevel, Desi Small-Rodriquez, Vanessa Y Hiratsuka, Maui Hudson, Nanibaa’ A. Garrison. (2022). “Using Indigenous Standards to implement the CARE Principles: Setting Expectations through Tribal Research Codes.” Front Genet 13:823309. doi: 10.3389/fgene.2022.823309
Carroll, Stephanie Russo, Edit Herczog, Maui Hudson, Keith Russell, Shelley Stall. (2021). “Operationalizing the CARE and FAIR Principles for Indigenous Data Futures.” Nature Sci Data 8, 108. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00892-0.