The third panel, “Culturally Grounded Research: Indigenous Students’ Perspectives on netbet sports betting Solutions for Their Communities,” was led by Francisco Marmolejo-Cossío, a postdoc in the EconCS Group at SEAS. Marmolejo-Cossío started the Summer of Science in 2022, pairing female Indigenous students with interdisciplinary researchers to find scientific and netbet sports betting solutions to challenges in their community. Conducting the panel in Spanish and translated using software, Marmolejo-Cossío led three Indigenous Mexican students in discussions of their research, which included the social determinants of populational health such as migration, physical and mental healthcare access and nutrition and food security; and familial domestic violence in Indigenous communities.

“Indigenous communities possess a vision of the world that is profoundly interconnected, where the human being's balance with nature and with spiritual aspects is fundamental for life, and to be in harmony with that,” said Edna Marlene Martínez. “Native wisdom also reminds us that these challenges cannot be resolved in isolation. They require more than one focus, an integral focus, where culture and territory and spirituality are taken into account. And we as researchers feel it is our task to learn from that, to collaborate and to acknowledge that we are not only doing netbet sports betting to generate knowledge, but it is also an alternative to find possible solutions to the problems that face our communities.”