Grace Bulltail is an assistant professor at UW–Madison’s Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, where she studies water resource engineering, natural resource management, land use, water quality science, and environmental justice in Indigenous communities. She is a member of the Crow Tribe and a descendant of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Tribes of Fort Berthold, North Dakota. She was appointed earlier this month by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland to sit on the Not Invisible Act Commission, which is tasked with addressing the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous people.