WNAR Indigenous Student Travel Award |
WNAR offers multiple travel awards for Indigenous students from within the WNAR region to attend our annual conference. Awards up to $1,000 are available for conference travel and lodging related expenses. Eligible students include Indigenous peoples of North America and the Pacific Islands. To apply for the 2026 meeting, please send a letter outlining your connection to Indigenous peoples and why you are looking forward to attending the WNAR annual conference to: jedi@wnar.org.
2025
Congratulations to Mikaela Nishida for a 2025 WNAR Indigenous Student Travel Award! Mikaela Nishida is a Ph.D. student of Statistics at the University of California Irvine, and she is Kānaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian).
2024
Congratulations to Kyle Conniff who is our first awardee of the WNAR Indigenous Student Travel Award! Kyle Conniff is a Ph.D. candidate of Statistics at the University of California Irvine, and he is a member of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.