Dr. Larry Emerson, Diné (Navajo) teacher and scholar, will hold a discussion on “A Pathway to Community: Decolonizing ourselves as a pathway from  internalized  prejudice toward a community leadership for being more fully   human” (A  conversation and reflection on leadership) 

Sponsored by the Community Foundation of the New River Valley, CSECP, VTIPG,   The Community Group, and The New Mountain Climbers

This event is open to the public and lunch will be served for all who attend.

Dr. Larry Emerson lives in Tsedaak’aan, Navajo Nation, New Mexico. Dr. Emerson has been an active lecturer, artist, farmer, educator, and community activist. He provides consulting services to Indigenous Nations groups and organizations. Dr. Emerson's dissertation work, entitled “‘Hozho Nahazdlii’: Towards a Practice of Diné Decolonization,” sought to understand “the dialectical nature of colonialism and decolonization.”

Tse’ da Ka’an is a Diné (Navajo) community where people work to recover sustainable agricultural practices by restoring Indigenous knowledge, including cultural restoration and language revitalization.

Dr. Emerson also facilitates gatherings called “Hoghan Dialogues” involving Indigenous ways of knowing and being and is presently a mentor in a First Nations Counseling program, Victoria, British Columbia. Dr. Emerson also mentors Native American scholars and collaborators at San Diego State University, San Diego, California and several Indigenous doctoral students at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Champaign, Illinois.