Sam Lee Regan is a Citizen of the Cherokee Nation and was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Their concentration of study at Princeton is within the Art & Archeology department with a focus on the practice of art, with desired minors in Indigenous Studies and Creative Writing. Much of Sam’s artist works focus on Indigenous futurism, highlighting Indigenous struggle, and challenging colonial systems of power. Sam's interests and motivations are in land reclamation, water conservation, tribal sovereignty, and promoting Indigenous advocacy, belonging, and furthering Indigenous representation within the Princeton community and at large.

Sam is a research fellow for Nuclear Princeton whose work focuses on a project that highlights the unbuilt 1970’s nuclear power plant on the Cherokee Nation reservation in Oklahoma, ‘Black Fox’, and the impact that Indigenous activism had in halting the build.