Camille Slagle

Dartmouth College | Ilíiaitchik: Indigenous Correspondents Program (ICP)

Camille Leihulu Slagle (she/her) is a Kanaka Maoli/Native Hawaiian activist from Kailua, O‘ahu, dedicated to advancing Indigenous land and data sovereignty in her ancestral homelands. She holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Stanford University and is pursuing her Ph.D. in Chemistry at Dartmouth College, where her research intersects materials science with clean water and air equity. Camille’s activism is rooted in the protection and restoration of Native lands, language, and cultural practices, and she works to bridge academic research with Indigenous knowledge systems.

Her heart lies in returning home to Hawai’i as a scientist at Kīlauea Volcano, working to combine Indigenous and western research methodologies to further advance understanding of geological processes from a Native storytelling perspective, preventing continual extractive data processes from Hawaiian communities.
In 2023, she received first place in the Student Multimedia Division of the Native American Journalists Association National Media Awards for Standing in Two Worlds: Native American College Diaries for her work showing how she navigates higher academia as an Indigenous scientist in spaces not created with her or her community in mind.