Associate Professor and Chair Karen Jarratt Snider- Applied Indigenous Studies

(Mississippi Choctaw), PhD, (BS, MPA, PhD, Northern Arizona University – 2006). She received her appointment in the Applied Indigenous Studies Department at Northern Arizona University in 2008 and specializes in indigenous environmental justice, forestry policy and indigenous people, tribal community participatory research models, federalism-American Indian intergovernmental relations, tribal administration, federal Indian policy and law, and indigenous peoples rights in international law and policy.

Her main ethical focus areas are justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion as well as governmental and public policy.