Dara Bramson is a cultural anthropologist inspired by diverse perspectives of healing and the body. She was a 2024 Scholarly Retreat Resident, during which she focused on the ways in which environmental changes impact Tibetan medicine’s evolution in exile in North India (and danced outdoors on writing breaks.) Dara is now a postdoc at the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science (CBIKS) at UMass Amherst.

Headshot by Stan Barański