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Jean-Luc Pierite

Visiting Scholar 2023-2024 President, Board of Directors, North American Indian Center of Boston
The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been in the minority… It will take such a small committed minority to work unrelentingly to win the uncommitted majority. Such a group may transform America’s greatest dilemma into her most glorious opportunity.
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Background

Jean-Luc Pierite (member, Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana) is an Indigenous leader, activist, and designer with areas of focus in supporting distributed networks for education; public policy advocacy for racial, economic, and climate justice; and supporting philanthropic foundations committed to diversity and inclusion. 

Pierite earned a master’s in design for emergent futures from the Institut d’Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya, following a BA from Dillard University and an associate’s from Full Sail University.

Interests

Pierite serves as President of the North American Indian Center of Boston (NAICOB), serves on the Black Mass. Coalition executive committee in which he advocates for racial and economic justice through targets for public and private sectors, and serves on the Community Advisory Group for the Nellie Mae Education Foundation supporting K12 students and BIPOC-led organizations. 

Pierite has been awarded with the inaugural LaDonna Brave Bull Allard Science Activist Award at The Global Community Bio Summit, which is hosted by the Community Biotechnology Initiative at the MIT Media Lab. He is also part of the Global Community Bio Fellows 3.0 to grow the movement of grassroots life sciences and research, and participates in the BIPOC Makers Collective as supported by Nation of Makers.

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