Dr. Debra Bolton

Dr. Debra Bolton (Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo), director of intercultural learning in the Office of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging under the University President’s office. Bolton has faculty appointments in the department of geography and geospatial sciences and the College of Education. Bolton’s research and publications focus on exclusions and integrations of displaced and historically excluded populations in the U.S. Also, she addressees Indigenous Education and the colonial entanglements in minoritizing Native Peoples. Bolton, a National Geographic Society Explorer, introduces geospatial sciences to high school-aged females of color, grossly under-represented in the geosciences and other STEM disciplines. In addition, Dr. Bolton serves as an officer in Kansas Association for Native American Education, is a Trustee for the Kansas Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, and she serves as a lecturer for Humanities Kansas on “Indigenous Wisdom and Climate Change.”