Kahheetah Barnoskie

Kahheetah's two-year fellowship appointment is funded by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORISE). She is based in the Kindscher Lab, working on the National Forest Service-funded project "Restoring with culturally significant plants to strengthen food webs for pollinators and tribal community well-being." This project encourages the use of culturally significant plants and pollinator species in Midwestern National Forest Service restoration projects. She is one of three ORISE fellows on the project, which is funded by a $1 million grant to the University of Massachusetts, of which $180,000 has come to KU.

From 2011 through 2015, Kahheetah worked with the Indian Health Service in several different capacities in California and Nevada. Since 2017, she has worked with her tribe, the Pawnee, on agricultural research and practices. This led her to the study of agronomy.