Margaret P. Moss [Hidatsa/Dakhóta]

PhD, JD, RN, FAAN, FADLN

Dr. Margaret Moss is an enrollee of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation in North Dakota. She is the first and only American Indian to hold both Nursing and Juris Doctorates. She has been a nurse for 36 years and an academic for 25 years across 4 universities including the University of Minnesota where she has returned as Professor in the School of Nursing and Associate Dean of Nursing and Health Policy, Advocacy, Access and Ethics; Yale University; SUNY Buffalo; and the University of British Columbia. Dr. Moss was named to the inaugural Forbes 50 over 50 Impact List, 2021. She was honored with the Nurse with A Global Impact Award given at the UN Delegates Dining Room, 2023. She was elected to the American Academy of Nursing’s Board 2021-23 and is a member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) (2022).  She sat on a Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine and has contributed to 2 NAM consensus studies and published an award-winning text, American Indian Health and Nursing (2015) followed by Health Equity and Nursing (2020). In other experiences, Dr. Moss was a RWJF Health Policy Fellow and staffed the Senate Special Committee on Aging during the ACA years. She was a Fulbright Research Chair at McGill University in Montreal, Canada on Indigenous Life Across the North American Context. She is asked to speak often on Indigenous, health, aging, diversity and policy issues with academics, health professionals and other groups nationally and internationally.