A Partnership between the Navajo Nation and Fielding Graduate University with Guests Barbara Mink, EdD and Miranda Haskie, EdD - Speaking of Education

This episode features our conversation with Dr. Barbara Mink and Dr. Miranda Haskie about a partnership between Fielding Graduate University and the Navajo nation. We explore how this partnership came about, its purpose, and how our two guests have been involved in it. In addition, we discuss the Navajo Nation's department of education and its efforts, not simply to preserve Navajo culture, but to keep it alive and flourishing. Together with Kathy Tiner, they have written and edited the book, The Future of Navajo Education.  

Dr. Mink is the Dean of School Leadership Studies at the Fielding Graduate University. She is a professor of sociology at the Navajo nation’s Dineﹼ College. As a faculty member of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department at Diné College, Dr. Haskie, strives to enhance student understanding of the sociology discipline through a Navajo sociological lens. In addition, Dr. Haskie leads the Diné College Navajo Oral History project in collaboration with Winona State University.