Kim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate) is Professor of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities. From 2015-2025, she was Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society at the University of Alberta. She is the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. Dr. TallBear is a regular panelist on the Media Indigena current affairs podcast and a frequent media commentator on topics including Indigenous peoples, science, and technology; self-indigenization in the US and Canada; and (de)colonial sex and family.