Calandra Dénanimnékiikwe McCool is an associate at Big Fire Law and Policy Group, a Native American-owned law firm that specializes in tribal law and federal Indian law. She focuses her practice on litigation in tribal and federal court. She graduated summa cum laude from the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma with a Bachelor of Arts in History. She earned her Master of Arts in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine from the University of Oklahoma with her thesis, “Native American Stories as Scientific Investigations of Nature: Indigenous Science and Methodologies.” She graduated with distinction from the University of Oklahoma College of Law in 2019. She is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation.