➜ “The Navajo Nation and Clean Water: The Story of Two Sisters,” a podcast featured on mrsgreensworld.com, was recorded by Dr. Crystal Tulley-Cordova and Nikki Tulley. Dr. Tulley-Cordova is a principal hydrologist in the Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources. Tulley is a third-year PhD candidate concentrating in hydroscience at the University of Arizona.
➜ Kimberley Oldham was profiled in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers e-publication DVIDS (Defense Visual Information Distribution Services). Oldham, the Southwestern Division hydropower asset investment manager for the Corps, discussed some of the many projects she has worked on, including as tribal liaison, and her long involvement with AISES.
➜ Council of Elders emerita member Dr. Henrietta Mann spoke before an international audience as a participant in the webinar “A Sense of Place: Indigenous Perspectives on Earth and Sky,” presented by the Indigenous Education Institute.
➜ Dr. Kenneth Roemer, faculty advisor to the Native American Students Association (NASA) at the University of Texas at Arlington, has been part of a committee working on a Native studies course for all public high schools in the state. He also reports that in April NASA members organized a virtual panel on the Indian Health Service. Among the panelists was Chad Lovett, CEO and hospital director for the North Carolina Department of Public Safety Central Prison Healthcare Complex, who was profiled in the Spring 2016 issue of Winds of Change.
➜ Dr. Twyla Baker was featured in an article on the importance of data in Native Science Report, a publication covering STEM at tribal and Native-serving colleges. Dr. Baker, whose specialty is research methodology, is the president of Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College and a former chair of the AISES Board of Directors.
➜ Kristina Halona was quoted in the Newsweek article “7 Women Scientists Who Defied the Odds and Changed Science Forever,” published on International Women’s Day in March. An aerospace engineer, Halona is a program manager for Antares System Engineering at Northrop Grumman and a member of the AISES Board of Directors.
➜ Indiana University East profiled Lawrence Alfred Jr., a 2020 graduate, on the news page of the school’s website. Alfred earned his BS in math completely online from his home in Tuba City, Ariz., on the Navajo Nation. He plans to pursue a career in computer science or optics.
➜ Robinson Tom was the subject of the article “From Crownpoint to Harvard: Navajo Graduate Leads by Serving” by Gallup Independent. Tom is the first Navajo Tech student to earn a BS in biology, a new major at the school. He is now doing research at Harvard through the NSF Partnerships for Research and Education in Materials project, a program that incorporates diverse perspectives. Tom was also selected for the AISES program Lighting the Pathway to Faculty Careers for Natives in STEM.
➜ Kali Dale was interviewed for the article “Utah Schools Discuss On-Campus Representation of Indigenous Peoples” in The Daily Universe, a publication of Brigham Young University. Dale is the president of the campus AISES College Chapter.
➜ AISES Chief Program Officer Dr. Kathy DeerInWater was a featured speaker at the Women of Color STEM Entrepreneurship Conference hosted by the Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology at Arizona State University. She took part in a panel on photo elicitation along with Dr. Nuria Jamout-Pascual and Mia Ong. For more on photo elicitation and the Native Women and Two-Spirit Individuals in Computing Higher Education (NAWC2) project researched by these speakers, see “What Motivates Native Computer Science Students?” in the Spring 2021 issue of Winds of Change.