Price Lecture: “Indigeneity, Relationality, and Reciprocity: Transforming Models of Leadership in Higher Education”

Identity Studies welcomes Dr. Micki Abercrombie-Donahue to celebrate Native American History month as the Price Lecturer. She believes in the importance of developing culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy, critical inquiry, and reflection in k-12 and higher education. She began her teaching career working with Multilingual Language Learners from El Salvador, Honduras, and Mexico in a refugee resettlement and community development organization in South Central Los Angeles. She’s become a leader in multilingual education emphasizing the role of language and culture in shaping student educational experiences, the keys to adapting models of curriculum and instruction to meet the needs of underrepresented, multilingual, and multicultural students, and the role of epistemology in shaping student performance in educational settings and best methods of implementing Indigenous epistemologies, languages, and pedagogies into classroom settings.