Dr. Nicolette I. Teufel-Shone is a Professor at the College of Health and Human Services and Associate Director of the Center for Community Health and Engaged Research at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ, USA. She obtained a Ph.D. in Anthropology and Nutrition from the University of Colorado Boulder. For more than 30 years, she has worked with Native Nations to build local capacity and leverage social and cultural assets to improve community health. She and her tribal colleagues have maintained long-term tribe–university partnerships to design shifts in community and institutional norms to support health and health behaviors.