Keolu Fox is Co-Founder of the Native BioData Consortium, a nonprofit research institute led by Indigenous scientists and tribal members. He is also an assistant professor at the University of California San Diego, where he is Co-Founder and Co-Director of the UCSD Indigenous Futures Institute. The first Kānaka Maoli to receive a doctorate in genome sciences, his work focuses on the connection between data as a resource and the emerging value of genomic health data from Indigenous communities.