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189 Contributors Kim Baca (Diné/Santa Clara Pueblo) is a marketing and communications consultant living in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She is Kinyaa’áanii (Towering House) born for Santa Clara Pueblo. She has been a newspaper and wire service reporter for media in the Southwest, including the Associated Press, the Santa Fe New Mexican, and El Paso Times. She has also been the marketing director of Native American Public Telecommunications (NAPT) and served two years as interim executive director of the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) before the organization moved to Oklahoma. With her executive experience, she is astute in fund-raising for nonprofit organizations. She has also done public relations and legislative work for former New Mexico House Speaker Ben Lujan; at the National American Indian Housing Council in Washington, D.C.; and at the former New Mexico Office of Indian Affairs in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Yolynda Begay calls Cahone Mesa, Utah, her home place. She is from the Naasht’ézhi Tá’baahí (Zuni-Water Edge) clan and born for the Tó’dích ’íi’nii (Bitter Water) clan. Her maternal grandpa is from the Kinłichíi’nii (Red House) clan, and her paternal grandpa is from the Tł’ááshchí’í (Red Bottom) clan. She currently resides in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, and is employed as an assistant regional social scientist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Begay received her master’s degree in community and regional planning from the University of New Mexico in May 2011. Her thesis is titled “Historic and Demographic Changes That Impact the Future of the Diné and Developing Community-Based Policy.” Esther Belin is a Diné scholar, artist, and poet who was born in Gallup , New Mexico, and raised in the Los Angeles area of southern California . She received her formal training at UC Berkeley, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and Antioch University. Belin is a regular guest lecturer at a variety of institutions, and her writing has been published in 190 • Contributors numerous anthologies and journals. In 2000 she won the American Book Award for her poetry book, From the Belly of My Beauty. Belin is part of a four-corners art collective that collaborates with other entities to increase cultural competency through art and writing. Gregory Cajete is a Native American educator whose work is dedicated to honoring the foundations of Indigenous knowledge in education. He is a Tewa Indian from Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. Cajete has served as a New Mexico humanities scholar in the ethnobotany of northern New Mexico and as a member of the New Mexico Arts Commission. In addition , he has lectured at colleges and universities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Italy, Japan, and Russia. Currently, Cajete is the director of Native American Studies and an associate professor in the Division of Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies in the College of Education at the University of New Mexico. He earned his bachelor of arts degree from New Mexico Highlands University with majors in both biology and sociology and a minor in secondary education. Cajete received his master of arts degree from the University of New Mexico in adult and secondary education. He received his PhD from the International College–Los Angeles New Philosophy Program in Social Science Education with an emphasis in Native American Studies. Greg Cajete has authored five books: Look to the Mountain: An Ecology of Indigenous Education (Kivaki Press, 1994), Ignite the Sparkle: An Indigenous Science Education Curriculum Model (Kivaki Press, 1999), Spirit of the Game: Indigenous Wellsprings (Kivaki Press, 2004), A People’s Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living (Clearlight Publishers, 1999), and Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence (Clearlight Publishers , 2000). He has also coauthored a book with Don Jacobs (Four Arrows) and Jong Min Lee titled Neurophilosophy and Indigenous Wisdom (Sense Publications, Netherlands, 2009). Andrew Curley is a member of the Navajo Nation (Bilagáanaa nishli, Honágháahnii ba’shashchiin, Bilagáanaa dashicheii, Kinyaa’áanii dashinali ). He was born in Gallup, New Mexico, in 1982. Curley graduated from Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts, with a BA in sociology in 2007. The next year he worked at the Diné Policy Institute at Diné College in Tsaile, Arizona. There he contributed to a government reform study for the Speaker of the Navajo Nation Council. In 2008 Curley started an MS/PhD program in the Department of Development Sociology at Cornell University. In 2010 he completed his master’s thesis on [3.141.244.201] Project MUSE (2024...

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