WHO WE ARE

Manley A. Begay, Jr.
(Navajo), is both Director of the Native Nations Institute at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy and Senior Lecturer in the American Indian Studies Program at the University of Arizona . He is also Codirector of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Begay serves as a member of the Aboriginal Program Advisory Committee, Aboriginal Leadership and Self-Government Program, The Banff Centre for Management, Banff, Alberta, Canada; the Board of Directors, Four Times Foundation, Red Lodge, Montana; Governing Council, National Institute for Native Leadership in Higher Education, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque; and the National Advisory Board for the Alfonso Ortiz Center for Intercultural Studies, Department of Anthropology and the Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, University of New Mexico.

He has served as a lecturer in administration, planning, and social policy as well as in learning and teaching areas on education at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE); a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Museum of the American Indian, Washington, D.C.; Board of Directors, The Medical Foundation of Boston; a Faculty Advisory Board Member, Harvard Native American Program, Harvard University; Planning Committee member of The National Institute for Native Leadership in Higher Education; and a member of the 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.