Author: Vivian Morris

Vivian Morris joined OK Policy in August 2021 as a Policy Fellow with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities State Policy Partnership Fellowship Program. She is Oklahoma’s first tribal policy focused fellow in the program and OK Policy’s first tribal-state policy analyst. Vivian is Alabama (federally recognized as Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town), Mvskoke, Seminole, and Diné (Navajo). Raised in various rural small towns in Oklahoma, she describes herself as a nomadic Este-cate (Mvskoke-Seminole for Native). Vivian holds dual bachelor’s degrees in Women and Gender Studies and Environmental Studies, with a minor in Native American Studies from the University of Oklahoma. She also completed her Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree with a Public Policy concentration from the University of Oklahoma in May 2022. She was a member of the 2022 AICCO Leadership Native Oklahoma (LNO) class. Previously, she worked as a Tribal Government Relations Health Promotion Coordinator at the Oklahoma Health Care Authority (SoonerCare). Vivian is passionate about racial and economic equity and access to justice for all Oklahomans.