My name is Kathryn Hall, but I prefer to be called Katie. I am an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians. My Tribe’s Reservation is located in north central North Dakota, approximately 10 miles south of the Canadian border. I have lived just outside the town of Belcourt, which was located on the Reservation from the time I was born up until I moved away for college. I went to school at the Turtle Mountain Community Schools in Belcourt from elementary school through high school, where I graduated Valedictorian of my class in 2012.
After high school, I moved to Grand Forks, North Dakota, to attend college at the University of North Dakota (UND), where I earned a Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering and a minor in mathematics in fall 2016. I am currently a graduate student at UND pursuing a Master’s degree in chemical engineering with an emphasis in materials science and manufacturing. I plan to complete my degree in fall 2018. If all goes as planned, I hope to continue on to the PhD program at UND or possibly get a job at a national lab.