Summer Wildbill, a citizen of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, holds up a financial literacy app she is working on with her tribe, sitting outside the NYU law building.
After living in the same house in Pendleton, Oregon for the first 18 years of her life, Summer Wildbill took a big leap post high school graduation in 2023, by moving across the country to study international relations at New York University (NYU).
"My senior year self went in really confident that it was not going to phase me at all, and I could just do a really smooth transition from reservation to the city, which was not true," said Wildbill, a citizen of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
She quickly noticed a gap in her education when it came to financial literacy...
