Dr. Meenakshi Richardson is a citizen of the Haliwa-Saponi Tribe and of Indo-Fijian descent. She has worked alongside both reservation-based and urban Indigenous communities, government entities, and community-based organizations serving diverse populations to provide health and human services, community-based participatory research, and Indigenous informed systems of care. She engages and advocates for reciprocal collaborations through decolonial practices to address intergenerational trauma, health equity, and social justice. Her research focuses on trauma transmission prevention among Indigenous populations and communities of color via kinship systems, caregiver-child relationships, traditional healing modalities, and protective socio-ecological determinants of health to address various behavioral health outcomes such a substance use, suicide, and toxic stress through trauma-informed, culturally grounded prevention, and strength-based intervention strategies that center Indigenous ways of knowing and being. She is an Assistant Scientist at the Center for Indigenous Health, as part of the Great Lakes Hub at Johns Hopkins University.