Fall 2022 - to present

• Martha is an Alaska Athabaskin woman. She was born and raised in interior Alaska in and around McGrath. She is a wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother.
• Martha currently works for University of Alaska Fairbanks as a Cultural-Educational Specialist in the ASMP program. She delivers professional development sessions highlighting Alaska’s Cultural Standards and the framework for Cultural Proficiency.  She presents culturally responsive teaching strategies and shows how they are imbedded into teacher planning and delivery of content. She has 25 years of classroom experience teaching grades 4-6 in Anchorage.
• Martha has always been involved in furthering educational goals and services for Alaska’s children. She served on Governor Hammond's Effective Schools Task Force and was selected as a BP Teacher of Excellence in Anchorage in 2007. She received her Bachelor of Education from UAA, earning the Dean’s Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Study, and her Master of Science in Education from Kansas University. She is a contributing author to:
  • Earth’s Caretakers: Native American Lessons.
  • Stop Talking:  Indigenous Ways of Teaching and Learning and Difficult Dialogues in Higher Education.
  • Railway of Hope (a suicide awareness and prevention educational video), and
  • Culture in the Classroom (indicators and evidences for evaluating culturally responsive teaching).