Yá’át’ééh shí éí Cynthia Begay yinishyé. Kiis’áanii nishłį́. Naakaii Dine’é bashishchiin. Tódích’íi’nii dashicheii. Naakaii Dine’é dashinalí. Ákót’éego diné asdzáán nishłį́.


Cynthia Begay, MPH (she/hers) is Hopi, Sunforehead Clan, born for the Navajo and Mexican people. She is a doctoral student at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine and a Senior Epidemiologist for a Native-woman owned consulting company. She is a longtime advocate for Native communities to advance health equity and reduce health disparities. Guided by community-based participatory research methods, Cynthia has worked with Tribal communities in California, specifically in cancer control, mental health, and substance use, for over ten years. She is a co-founder of the non-profit Native American Pathways, located on the Hoopa Valley Indian Reservation. In addition to her work in public health, Cynthia enjoys creating contemporary and familial Hopi overlay jewelry, weaving, and visiting her family in Sipaulovi, Second Mesa, AZ.