Dr. Cherie De Vore, Diné, is from the beautiful community of Crownpoint, NM in eastern Navajo Nation. Her clans are Tł'ááshchi'í. Dziłt'áá' Kinyaa'áání. Ashįįhí. Táneeszahníí (Red Bottom People, Atop the Mountain Towering House, Salt People and Tangle People). She received her Ph.D. in civil & environmental engineering at the University of New Mexico under the mentorship of Professor Jose Cerrato. She was then awarded a National Science Foundation Earth Science Postdoctoral Fellowship to conduct research at Stanford University from 2020 to 2023. Cherie also was an associate postdoctoral fellow at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory investigating colloidal transport of metals in the Floodplain Hydro-Biogeochemistry research focus group . With a restorative framework in mind, her current work investigates biogeochemical processes at the interface of water, energy, and health that affect the cycle and treatment of metals and nutrients in the environment, especially near Native communities. She is now an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical & Environmental Engineering at the University of Arizona. Cherie is the first and only Native faculty member in the College of Engineering at UArizona. She's also a proud member of the Indigenous Resilience Center and looks forward to working with her community and many other tribes on environmental restoration research.