Stephanie Carroll Rainie (Ahtna Athabascan) is Associate Director, Manager of the Tribal Health Program, and Senior Researcher at the Native Nations Institute (NNI), Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy, The University of Arizona. Rainie's research program explores the links between governance, health care, and community wellness. She is collaboratively engaged with a community of researchers at NNI and elsewhere, whose projects span the United States and the globe. Rainie mentors numerous staff and students in responsible research practices, research administration, and leadership, among other topics. She also functions as the Center's liaison to the University's Human Subjects Protection Program, monitoring implementation of the guidelines in Center research projects. Rainie is a doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona's (UA) Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health (MEZCOPH). She was a founding member of the UAs American Indian and Indigenous Health Alliance Club, working to support the recruitment and retention of Indigenous students and faculty in the health sciences. Annually, she facilitates a week long, intensive service learning course that familiarizes public health graduate students with the Tucson community. Healthy Indigenous communities are built and rebuilt every day, though the actions of both citizens and leaders. We are healthy when our households, workplaces, and institutions are positive places, and when our cultures, languages, and lands are thriving. Rainie's research comes in many forms, from case studies of successful strategies to translation of large datasets into common language to reframing discussions of Indigenous governance and health. Yet the ultimate goal remains the same: enhancing connections - between people and their communities, governments, and others - to improve community and individual health and wellness.