Amy Besaw Medford

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Amy Besaw Medford is a Research Affiliate with the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development at the Harvard Kennedy School and an Analyst with the Taylor Policy Group. Amy serves on the board for the Calumet & Cross Heritage Society, which strives to preserve and share Brothertown Indian history and heritage. Amy is enrolled Brothertown Indian and Korean. She received her BA in Business Administration from the University of Washington, MA in Organizational Leadership from Chapman University, and EdM in Human Development and Psychology from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

A man beats a drum in front of a medium-sized group of Indigenous people in support of a drinking water bill for Passamaquoddy Tribal members.

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Tribes in Maine left out of Native American resurgence by 40-year-old federal law denying their self-determination

Three Harvard Kennedy School scholars write that Maine's Wabanaki Nations have been left out of an economic development boom.

ByJoseph Kalt Amy Besaw Medford Jonathan B. Taylor

February 14, 2023