Mariah Cooper is a 4th year medical student in the INMED program at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine. She is a citizen of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians and grew up on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Reservation, near Hayward, Wisconsin.

Her biography is as follows.

Boozhoo! My name is Mariah Star Cooper and my Ojibwe/Anishinaabe name is Waabizhiiquay. I am an enrolled member of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians and grew up on the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe Reservation, near Hayward, Wisconsin. My family is from the New Post community. I had the honor of representing my tribe as a youth ambassador by being Jr. Miss Honor the Earth and Miss Honor the Earth. I graduated as Valedictorian from Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe High School and attended the University of Wisconsin - River Falls to earn my Bachelor of Science in Biology, with emphasis in Biomedical Sciences. In my undergraduate career, I attended the Native Americans into Medicine Program at the University of Minnesota, Four Directions Summer Research Program at Harvard Medical School, Andrew W. Mellon Summer Internship in Conservation at the National Museum of the American Indian and Smithsonian Institution, and the Visiting Summer Research Program at Harvard Medical School. I am a third-year medical student at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences and am in the process of earning my Doctor of Medicine degree. Miigwetch!