Jael Brothers

Jael Whitney Brothers is the Assistant Director for the Honoring Nations program at the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development. Prior to joining the Ash Center, Jael helped run the Indigenous Communities Fellowship at MIT Solve. Before that, she was a Business Development Leader for AI & Sustainability software solutions at IBM, as well as an active part of the Social Impact and Engagement committee of IBM’s Native American Council ERG.

Jael holds a B.B.A. in Marketing from Kansas State University, and will finish her M.A. in Community Economic Development at Northwest University in 2025. She is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. In her free time, Jael also writes plays and exhibits glitch art around the Greater Boston area under the moniker @w3rmwood. Her works have been showcased by the Boston Center for the Arts, the Trustman Art Gallery at Simmons University, Boston Tech Poetics, and more.