Dr. Krystal Tsosie is a Diné (Navajo) geneticist and bioethicist at Arizona State University. She is also a co-founder of the Native BioData Consortium, the first U.S.-based Indigenous-led biobank. Her work centers on Indigenous data sovereignty, advocating for the right of Native nations to govern the collection, ownership, and application of their own data. Dr. Tsosie leads the Tsosie Lab for Indigenous Genomic Data Equity and Justice, where she focuses on community-engaged research and the ethical use of genomic data in Indigenous communities.

Data Day 2025
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Dr. Krystal Tsosie, PhD, MPH, MA
Geneticist and bioethicist, and co-founder of the Native BioData Consortium
Arizona State University

Dionna Taylor
Graduate Research Assistant
UW Department of Communication

Joey Key
Professor
UW Bothell School of STEM
Dr. Key earned her Ph.D. and M.S. in physics at Montana State University in 2014 and 2010, respectively. She completed her undergraduate degree in Astrophysics with highest honors from Williams College. She has worked for the Montana Space Grant Consortium (MSGC) and Montana NASA EPSCoR programs as an Education Specialist as well as serving as a Research Assistant Professor and Director of Education and Outreach at the Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy (CGWA) at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV).
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