Fallon Carey joined the team at NABS in fall of 2022. She is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and Gates Millennium Scholarship Alumni. She is passionate about advocating for tribal sovereignty in archival collections and has worked to facilitate relationships between tribal and nontribal institutions. Since graduating from the University of Wisconsin- Madison with a master’s in library science in 2020, she has worked at the University of Utah cataloging oral histories from individuals from 90 different Tribal Nations for the Native American Oral History project funded by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. 

In addition to her archival projects, she has partnered with Franklin Library staff to promote Indigenous collections and library services in Hennepin County.  Her past projects include a position as a contributor to the Hennepin County Library Native Advisory Council, and the Minnesota Department of Education’s Indigenous Representations Project. 

Before moving to Minneapolis, she lived on the Cherokee Nation reservation and got her BFA in Ceramics with a minor in Art History from the University of Tulsa. Fallon is a descendent of a boarding school survivor who attended Chilocco Indian Training School.