Myriah Williams is a citizen of the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians with over 15 years of experience in place-based learning. At the Outdoor Discovery Center, she is the Cultural Educator where she leads programs that bridge Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge (ITEK) with modern conservation science, helping students and visitors understand the deep, reciprocal relationship between humans and the natural world. Myriah holds a masters degree in Native American Education from Northern Michigan University and is dedicated to preserving the Bodewadmi language and land-based education, based on cultural connections. 

Myriah is a contributing author to the Company of Our Relatives: The Richard Pohrt, Jr. Collection, Eiteljorg Museum. She works with the youth in her tribe taking time to bring them on traditional travels deep in the Manistee forest. She has been featured on discussion panels and gives community talks about the Potawatomi and the Three Fires Confederacy of the Great Lakes.  She also serves as a Wasseya Preschool through first grade board member working to advance her community’s access to nature based education.