Kameica Yazzie is an undergraduate researcher assistant for the LearnExploreDesign (LED) Lab at Utah State University. She is currently pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Health Education & Promotion with an emphasis in community health. As future health educator, she hopes to help all Native people receive the best healthcare possible. Kameica’s research interests include building community health programs using emerging technologies.
We Got the Beat (WGB) is a project founded by Cedric Mannie and Kameica Yazzie in collaboration with Dr. Breanne Litts. WGB aims to impact young people’s perception of health through the use of computers with the aim of informing literature about health, health sciences, computer programming, and especially learning sciences.
Culturally Responsive Making: Developing High-Low Tech Maker Activities in Local and Mobile Spaces for Supporting American Indian Youth is a two-year, National Science Foundation (#1623404) funded project in collaboration with Arizona State University and the University of Pennsylvania. The goal of this project is to develop culturally responsive making activities and makerspaces with two Indigenous communities, one in Utah and one in Arizona.
