Annita Hetoevehotohke'e (Evening Star Woman) Lucchesi is a researcher and scholar of Cheyenne and Italian descent, currently residing on her ancestral homelands in southeast Montana. Annita's love for her Cheyenne culture and people lie at the heart of her professional and personal passions, and outside her work, Annita finds joy in her horses and farm animals, beadwork, and being a community auntie.

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Annita earned her PhD from the School of Geography, Development, & Environment at the University of Arizona, with a minor in Gender & Women's Studies. She was a graduate scholar in the Native Nations Institute's Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance. She earned her BA in Geography with a minor in Global Poverty and Practice from the University of California, Berkeley, and her MA in American Studies from Washington State University.​​ 

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Annita has years of experience in academia and higher education, community based research, cartography, community organizing, and advocacy. Her areas of specialty include Indigenous cartography, geography, and earth sciences; Indigenous data sovereignty and Indigenous research methodologies; and violence against Indigenous peoples (especially as it intersects with land-based violence). ​