Dr. Margaret Moss is an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation in North Dakota. She has equal lineage in a Dakhóta First Nation. She is the first and only American Indian to hold both Nursing and Juris Doctorates. She has been a nurse for 34 years and an academic for 23 years across 4 universities including the University of Minnesota, Yale University, SUNY Buffalo and currently at the University of British Columbia (UBC) where she is a Professor in the Faculty of Applied Science, School of Nursing. She was recent Interim Associate Vice President Equity & Inclusion at UBC and has now returned to be Director of the UBC First Nations House of Learning, a strategic Leadership position under the Provost. Dr. Moss was one of only 2 Indigenous women named to the inaugural Forbes 50 over 50 Impact List, 2021. She was elected to the American Academy of Nursing’s Board 2021 and has been elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) (2022). She sits on a Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine, and is currently on a NAM study to review Federal Policies that Contribute to Racial and Ethnic Health Inequities. Dr. Moss wrote an award-winning text, American Indian Health and Nursing (2015) followed by Health Equity and Nursing (2020). She co-led the development and launch of the UBC Indigenous Strategic Plan (2020) with interest and uptake around the world and across Canada. In other experiences, Dr. Moss was a RWJF Health Policy Fellow and staffed the Senate Special Committee on Aging. She was a Fulbright Research Chair at McGill University on Indigenous Life Across the North American Context. She is asked to speak often on Indigenous, health, aging, diversity and policy issues with academics, health professionals and other groups nationally and internationally.