Fatima Abbas is a 2025–2026 Millennium fellow and serves as the director of the Office of Tribal and Native Affairs within the US Department of Treasury, where she advises on tribal economic and tax issues. During her service, she has led the implementation of over thirty billion dollars in recovery funds for 574 tribes, many of which have poverty rates that are over 70 percent of their population. Prior to Treasury, Abbas served as the vice president of government relations at the National Congress of American Indians, where she worked on securing forty billion dollars in recovery set aside for tribes. Prior to that, Abbas served tribes as the Karuk Tribe’s first general counsel and the Colorado River Indian Tribes’ deputy attorney general and worked as a commercial litigator in Philadelphia. Abbas is a graduate of the University of California Berkeley School of Law, Temple University, and the Community College of Philadelphia. Abbas is an enrolled citizen of the Haliwa Saponi Indian Tribe.