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Dr. Meranda Roberts is a citizen of the Yerington Paiute Tribe and Chicana. She has a Ph.D. in Native American History and an M.A. in Public History from the University of California, Riverside. Meranda has worked as a co-curator at the Field Museum of Natural History, where she developed brand new content for the museum’s Native American exhibition hall, "Native Truths: Our Stories. Our Voices." She curated the 2023 Native American Invitational Exhibition at Idyllwild Arts titled "Still We Smile: Humor as Correction and Joy" and is currently guest curating the exhibition "Continuity: Cahuilla Basket Weavers and their Legacies," which will open at the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College in Winter 2024. Meranda is also a visiting professor at Pomona College in the art history department.

Meranda’s passion lies in holding colonial institutions, like museums, accountable for the harmful narratives they have created about Indigenous people. She is dedicated to reconnecting Indigenous collection items with their descendants and telling these items’ stories in a way that adequately expresses their meaning to the communities they come from.  Using Indigenous methodologies and anti-colonial pedagogy, Meranda’s work exemplifies ways in which we can work toward a more equitable future.