Kelley Hummingbird

Kelley Hummingbird (she/her) joined NABS in June 2025 as a Research Associate on the Research and Education team. A citizen of the Cherokee Nation and descendant of boarding school survivors from Chilocco, Haskell, and Sequoyah, Kelley brings a personal and scholarly commitment to her work.

She has worked in the nonprofit sector since 2017, with experience in food insecurity awareness, educational programming, and most recently, cultural heritage advocacy with the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums. She also served as evaluator for the Indigenizing Archival Training pilot program.

Kelley is a PhD student in the College of Communication and Information Sciences at the University of Alabama and a Cobell Scholar. She earned her MLIS from the University of Missouri in 2023. Kelley serves as the 2025–2026 Chair of both the Native American Archives Section and the Nominating Committee for the Society of American Archivists.

She currently lives and works in Ohio on the ancestral lands of the Myaamia People with her two daughters, two cats, and her dog.