About the Creator

Zoë Antoinette Eddy, PhD

Zoë Antoinette Eddy (she/her/hers) is an artist, activist, and researcher of mixed settler and Indigenous (Algonquin Anishinaabe/Wendat) descent. She received her PhD in Social Anthropology and Archaeology from Harvard University (2019) where she specialized in Indigenous Studies. She is currently finishing a second Masters in Clinical Mental Health Counseling from Antioch University New England; she focuses on culturally integrated and trauma-informed counseling for neurodivergent children and adolescents.

Currently, Zoë is an Assistant Professor of Teaching at Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s Department of Integrative and Global Studies. At WPI, she is the co-director of the Hawai’i Project Center where she brings her love of community-integrated work to environmentally focused projects. Zoe has published professionally in academic and non-academic spaces, including a forthcoming article in American Anthropologist and a forthcoming edited volume with Lever Press. As part of her clinical training, she is also currently a full-time on-site counselor with Camp Triumph.

In her free time, Zoë volunteers with animal welfare groups, writes and directs live-action roleplaying games, travels, freedives with one of her partners, and tries to find space to spend actual quality time with her found family.