Please join us virtually on March 3rd, 3pm(pst), to hear an incredible panel of Scholars discuss issues in Indigenous Education and the possibilities for the future. Our panel will feature Dr. Teresa McCarty of UCLA, Dr. Tiffany Lee of the University of New Mexico, Dr. Sheilah Nicholas of the University of Arizona and Dr. Stephanie Waterman of the University of Toronto. To register please see the link below.

Teresa L. McCarty is an educational anthropologist whose work focuses on Indigenous education and language education policy. She is the George F. Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Alice Wiley Snell Professor Emerita of Education Policy Studies at Arizona State University. A Fellow of the American Educational Research Association, Society for Applied Anthropology, and International Centre for Language Revitalisation, she has also been the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the School for Advanced Research.

Tiffany S. Lee (Diné/Lakota) is Chair of Native American Studies at the University of New Mexico. She earned her Ph.D. in Sociology of Education from Stanford in 1999. Her research examines Native youth perspectives of language learning and the impact of language immersion, particularly in Diné settings. Her research examines Native youth perspectives with regard to language reclamation and identity. She also investigates socio-culturally centered educational approaches.  

Sheilah E. Nicholas is a member of the Hopi Tribe located in Arizona. She is a Professor in the Department of Teaching, Learning and Sociocultural Studies (TLSS) at the University of Arizona (UA). She teaches courses in Indigenous Culture-Based Education, Language and Culture, Oral Traditions, Language Minority Education, and Teacher Research. She is also a Faculty Instructor for the American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI) and Immersion Instructor-Consultant for the Indigenous Language Institute, Sante Fe, NM.

Stephanie Waterman is interested in how university staff support college students, Indigenous methodologies, critical race theories, and Indigenous geographies. Her research focus has been about Native American/Indigenous college student experiences. She has also turned her attention to institutions - how do First Nations/Native American student affairs units work? How do they support Indigenous students and how do they intersect with non-Indigenous based units on campus?