J. Cedric Woods, PhD

Director, Institute for New England Native American Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston

J. Cedric Woods, of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, has served as Director of the Institute for New England Native American Studies (INENAS) at the University of Massachusetts, Boston since 2009. In this role, he has connected Native New England with university research, innovation, and education; and he has worked on projects with tribes in the areas of tribal government capacity building, Indian education, economic development, and chronic disease prevention.  Cedric has served as a consultant to the National Museum of the American Indian; North Carolina's Haliwa Saponi Indian Tribe; and as a member of the Board of Trustees for Plimoth Plantation in Plymouth, Massachusetts.