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Panel Discussion featuring HUNAP alumni followed by a reception.
RSVP requested, but not required.
Panelists:
Manley Begay:
Manley A. Begay, Jr. (Navajo), Ed.D, (AA, Dine’ College; BA, University of Arizona; M.Ed, Brigham Young University; M.Ed, Harvard University; Ed.D, Harvard University –1997). A citizen of the Navajo Nation, Professor Begay’s specializes in Indigenous Nation-Building, Education, and Dine’ History and Philosophy. Professor Begay also is faculty in the College of Education and W.A. Franke College of Business. He is also co-director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development.
James Fenelon:
Professor Fenelon is Lakota/Dakota, Gaelic Irish and Norsk, having taught internationally, with indigenous peoples globally, and with urban groups. James teaches on urban inequality, social movements, Native Nations, race and racism, social movements, worked with the Urban Conservation Corps, the California Indian Nations College, and recently on Environmental Water research with the Water Resources Policy Institute for the CSU. He is an advocate for social justice around the world.
Angela Gonzales:
Angela Gonzales is an associate professor and Faculty Head of Justice & Social Inquiry in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Before moving to ASU in 2016, Gonzales served on the faculty in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University. Over the past decade, Gonzales has engaged in several community-based research projects on the Hopi Reservation. In 2007, she partnered with the Hopi Department of Community Health on a project aimed at identifying the factors associated with colorectal cancer screening among Hopi adults. Gonzales is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe from the Village of Shungopavy (Spider Clan).
Gabrielle Tayac:
Dr. Gabrielle Tayac, a member of the Piscataway Indian Nation, is an activist scholar committed to empowering Indigenous perspectives. She earned her PhD and MA in sociology from Harvard University, and her BS in social work and American Indian studies from Cornell University. Her scholarly research focuses on hemispheric American Indian identity, multiracialism, indigenous religions, and social movements, maintaining a regional specialization in the Chesapeake Bay. Dr. Tayac served on the staff of the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) for 18 years as an educator, historian, and curator. She engages deeply in community relationships and public discourse.
