Dr. Kelly Berry is an enrolled citizen of the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma with affiliations to the Kiowa and Choctaw Nations. He is a Mellon Impact Post-Doctoral Fellow/Lecturer at the University of Oklahoma in the Department of Native American Studies. Prior to his academic appointment at OU, he served as the Indigenous Initiatives Research Associate, instructor, and curriculum advisory team member for the Indigenous Education Leadership Certificate Graduate Program at Kansas State University. Dr. Berry has served as faculty at Upper Iowa University, Bacone College, Cameron University, and Comanche Nation College and is a certified 5-12 social studies teacher in Oklahoma and Kansas. He is a past fellow of Harvard University’s Management Development Program and current fellow in the University of Arizona Native Nations Institute Tribal Professional Governance Program and Arizona State University's American Indian Policy Institute Indigenous Leadership Academy. He is a University Council for Educational Administration Barbara L. Jackson Scholar and currently sits on the American Educational Research Association Indigenous Peoples of the Americas Special Interest Committee. Dr. Berry holds a Bachelor of Science in sociology from OU, a Master of Public Health from the OU Health Sciences Center, and a Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership from Kansas State University.