Nelda Martinez is a home ownership specialist with the Acoma Pueblo Housing Authority, located 60 miles west of Albuquerque. She provides financial literacy training to clients seeking housing at Acoma Pueblo, home to about 3,000. Clients are counseled about finances, maintenance and the realities of home ownership as they progress […]

Sara Hunt is a substance abuse therapist at New Day Counseling in Durango. She’s Navajo, Choctaw and Taos, and although she grew up on the Fort Defiance Navajo reservation in Arizona, she wasn’t raised with a traditional Native upbringing. Through DU’s Four Corners program, Hunt learned more about her heritage […]

I recently bumped into a dear old friend — Prof. Emeritus Larry Herold, who was my undergraduate geography adviser. In just the few minutes we spent catching up, I recalled, quite vividly, what this professor had meant to me as a student and how he impacted my life. Professor Herold […]