Annette New Dawn Sampson is an enrolled member of the Wallulapum, Umatilla, and Cayuse tribe, collectively known as the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, settled in the foothills of the Blue Mountains in Eastern Oregon. Her early childhood was spent on the tundra in Bethel, Alaska and the Yakima valley. She later returned home to attend and graduate from the tribal charter school, Nixyaawii Community School in 2007; where she was point guard during ball season and attended night classes at the local community college. After a short bout of college, Annette realized she didn’t fit into a  traditional academic pathway and she spent time shadowing native nurses at the local health clinics. This ignited her passion to care for others, especially in a tribal setting. In 2011 she graduated from the local Blue Mountain Community College nursing program with her registered nurse degree, and began working at her home clinic Yellowhawk Tribal Health Center while also taking online classes for her bachelors degree via Oregon Health & Sciences University (OHSU). She spent five years at Yellowhawk and then transitioned with her daughter to central Oregon and began a clinic nurse position with the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Indian Health Service. Here she gained valuable nursing and case management skills while beginning a new role of clinical research. After eight years of tribal health nursing, Annette found herself ready to step into the next role of a primary care provider and was accepted into the OHSU Doctorate Family Nurse Practitioner program in 2019. Navigating a doctoral program and also homeschooling her young daughter during the pandemic was challenging, but with the help of her family and native mentors, she graduated and started work as a family nurse practitioner at the Confederated tribes of Grand Ronde. Here she sees all ages from newborns to those over 100 years of age, and enjoys getting to know her patients and their families, cultivating a safe space with trauma informed care and including cultural aspects to care plans.