Rachel Winters (she/hers) is currently the Director, Student Leadership & Community Engagement at the University of Massachusetts Boston as well as a second-year doctoral student in the Higher Education PhD program. Previously she worked in the Dance Division at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and in community engagement with Madison House, the volunteer center at the University of Virginia and the University of Central Oklahoma, Volunteer & Service Learning Center. Rachel is from Oklahoma and an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation (ᏣᎳᎩᎯ ᎠᏰᎵ). She earned a BFA in Dance and an MEd in Adult & Higher Education both from UCO. Her work and research interests include Indigenous student success in higher education, community & tribal-university relationships, organizational change with the intention to become Native-serving at institutions identified in the Land-Grab U report, arts for healing and social change, and higher education, leadership development, and community engagement from a reparative lens. She has served as the co-chair for NASPA Student Leadership Programs Knowledge Community and danced with the Radical Application of Creative Energy (RACE) Dance Collective. She is currently engaged with the New Boston Coalition, Higher Education Reparations Engagement (HERE) Taskforce, and the Restorative Justice Commission at UMass Boston.