21st Century Native Leaders

In a special podcast episode, Kari L. Deswood (Navajo) shares what she has learned in her doctoral educational research course and explains how her research lens has evolved since starting her PhD program. Kari talks about the importance of decolonizing dominant systems and centering the voices of research participants and their communities. Kari is an Assistant Professor at San Juan College in Farmington, NM. She is wrapping up her first year as a doctoral student in CSU’s Higher Educational Leadership Program. If you want to share your research or educational journey, contact me! Additional readings: Ahmed, S. (2006). Queer phenomenology: Orientations, objects, others.  Fine, M. (2018). Just research in contentious times: Widening the methodological imagination.  Patel, L. (2016). Decolonizing educational research: From ownership to answerability.  Smith, L. T. (2012). Decolonizing methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples   Wilder, C. S. (2013). Ebony and ivy: Race, slavery, and the troubled his