Shayla Chatto, Ph.D. is a citizen of the Native Nation and a descendent of the White Mountain Apache tribe. Dr. Chatto holds a doctorate in Culturally Sustaining Education and a Graduate Certificate in American Indian and Indigenous Studies from the University of Washington. Dr. Chatto recently completed the Bonderman Fellowship, where she travelled to South America, South Africa, and Southeastern Asia. Her research interests broadly explore state-mandated PK-20 Native/Indigenous Education efforts and enactments, culturally sustaining/revitalizing pedagogies, and land-based theories and pedagogies grounded in Indigenous Research Methodologies.