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 Manley
A Begay Jr. Navajo; Ed.D., 1997, Harvard
University) is both director of the Native Nations Institute for Leadership,
Management, and Policy (NNI) in the Udall Center for Studies in Public
Policy and senior lecturer/associate social scientist in the American
Indian Studies Program at The University of Arizona (UofA). He teaches
courses on nation-building, curriculum development, and Indigenous education.
He is also co-director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic
Development (HPAIED), John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard
University. He recently was also selected as faculty member of the
Institute for Planet Earth, at The University of Arizona. While teaching
at UofA and working with NNI and HPAIED, Dr. Begay serves as a member
of the: Aboriginal Program Advisory Committee (Co-Chair), Aboriginal
Leadership and Self-Government Program, The Banff Centre for Management,
Banff, Alberta, Canada Native American Sports Council Curriculum Committee,
Denver, Colorado Board of Directors, Policy Consensus Initiative, Portland
State University, Portland Oregon; International Advisory Committee
for the Indigenous Community Governance Research Project, Reconciliation
Australia, Canberra, Australia; Coordination Team Member, Native Network,
US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, Tucson, AZ Member,
Governing Council, National Institute for Native Leadership in Higher
Education, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM; and Advisory Board,
ASPIRE Program, College of Education, The University of Arizona.
He has served as a lecturer in the Administration, Planning, and Social
Policy and Learning and Teaching areas at Harvard Graduate School of
Education (HGSE). He has also served as a member of, among others, the:
Board of Directors, Four Times Foundation, Red Lodge, Montana; National
Advisory Board for the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies,
Department of Anthropology and the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University
of New Mexico Governing Council, National Institute for Native Leadership
in Higher Education, University of New Mexico the Board of Directors,
The Medical Foundation of Boston; Board of Trustees of the National
Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C. Faculty Advisory Board
member Harvard Native American Program, Harvard University; and Board
of Directors, Tuba City Wellness Center, Navajo Nation.
He has worked as a consultant for federal agencies, curriculum development
specialist and researcher for a tribal college, and reviewer for several
major textbook publishing and film companies. Furthermore, his research
and consulting experience has focused on projects about and for Native
nations in the promotion of strong and effective institutions of governance
and leadership. He has presented on a variety of topics from leadership
to Indigenous nation building and from curriculum development to pedagogy
and from historical and contemporary Native American issues to education
at ;numerous colleges and universities, private and public high schools,
national and international conferences, institutes, and symposia; He
has also worked closely with Native nations in the US, First Nations
and Bands in Canada, Aborigines in Australia, and Maoris in Aotearoa
( New Zealand).
Prior to working with the HPAIED, Harvard University, and NNI, he was
a principal and assistant principal on the Navajo Nation and high school
teacher on the White Mountain Apache Reservation. He received his A.A.
from Navajo Community College (1975); B.A. in Education from The University
of Arizona (1977); M.Ed. (1984) and Ed.Spec. (1985) in Educational Administration
from Brigham Young University; M.Ed. (1989) from Harvard Graduate School
of Education, Harvard University; and doctorate at Harvard Graduate
School of Education, Harvard University (1997). His doctoral dissertation
was titled: Leading By Choice, Not Chance: Leadership
Education for Native Chief Executives of American Indian Nations.
Dr. Begay was born in Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation (AZ) and raised in
Tuba City via Wheatfields, Navajo Nation (AZ), and his maternal clan
is Ma’ii Deesgiizhinii (Coyote Pass - Jemez Clan); paternal clan
is Taachii’nii (Red Running into the
Water People) and maternal grandfather’s clan is Lok’aa
dine’e (Reed People) and paternal grandfather’s clan
is Todichi’ii’nii (Bitter Water
People). He is a citizen of the Navajo Nation, married to Carol Goldtooth-Begay,
and her maternal clan is; Kinyaa’aanii (Towering
House People) and paternal clan is Biih bitoodnii (Deer Springs People); maternal grandfather is Tl’izi
lani (Manygoats People) and paternal grandfather is Tl’aashchi’i(Red
Bottom People).; He is the father of a 29 year-old daughter, Mandalyn
Echo Cody Begay, and 25 year-old son, Manasseh Cody Begay. As of July
5, 2000, he became a grandfather to Moonoka.
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