Indige-FEWSS Partners
Indige-FEWSS is grateful to our Community Partners and Advisory Committee for the collaboration and guidance as we work to strengthen food-energy-water security and sovereignty in the Navajo Nation and other Indigenous communities.
Indige-FEWSS Community Partners
Diné College Land Grant Office, Benita Litson and Bryan Neztsosie
Diné College STEM Department, Donald Robinson
Diné College, Environmental Institute, Shiprock Campus, Perry Charley and Neilroy Singer
Diné College, Tuba City Campus, Dr. Shazia Tabassum Hakim
KXWR Radio of the Navajo Nation, broadcast by Diné College (LA Williams, host)
University of Arizona - Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership, co-sponsor for Native Voices in STEM seminar series
Indige-FEWSS Faculty Labs and Centers
Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (CEAC)

"The Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (CEAC) is a science- and engineering-based interdisciplinary program for education, research, outreach and project/business development with focus on controlled environment systems for food production. Improved resource utilization (water/nutrients, energy, labor and information) is achieved through studies in plant physiology and production, as well as, computer monitoring and control systems. Facilities include laboratories and greenhouses for research, teaching and demonstration/production, as well as, growth chambers and closed environment systems."
Visit the CEAC siteWater & Energy Sustainable Technology (WEST) Center

"WEST Center facilitates innovative research and technology development to ensure sustainable water supplies that protects and promotes environmental and human health. Critical to WEST’s success is the partnership between the University of Arizona, the private sector, utilities, and the community at large."
Visit the WEST Center siteSimmons-Potter Laboratory

The Simmons-Potter Laboratory is the research center for Indige-FEWSS Trainees with interests in renewable energy systems and linear and nonlinear response of optical materials and devices to ionizing and non-ionizing radiation.
Ratcliff Laboratory

Laboratory for Interface Science of Printable Electronic Materials
Visit the Ratcliff Laboratory siteKORES Laboratory

"The KORES lab focuses on advance water and wastewater treatment processes with particular interest on material and process optimization at the water-energy nexus interface. We use fundamentals to improve performance of processes while bridging the gap between the lab scale and real life application through vigorous cost and energy optimization techniques."
Take a tour of the KORES Laboratory
Visit the KORES Laboratory siteALEC Laboratory

"The laboratory facility is dedicated to providing state-of-the-art analyses of organic and inorganic micro-pollutants to faculty, staff and students engaged in water sustainability research. Our intent is to develop novel analytical and bioanalytical (e.g. in vitro) methods for effective detection, quantification, and measurement of biological effects of trace contaminants in real-world matrices, and to apply these methods to the diversity of sample types being investigated by researchers at Arizona's three state universities."
Visit the ALEC LaboratoryUniversity Sponsors and More Community Partners
University of Arizona Department of Environmental Science
University of Arizona School of Natural Resources and the Environment, 2020 co-sponsor for Native Voices in STEM seminar series
University of Arizona Superfund Research Program Community Engagement Core, Karletta Chief, co-PI
Indigenous Co-Innovation at the Nexus of Food, Energy & Water Systems (NSF #DGE1633740) Partnership with Diné College, University of California at Berkeley Blum Center, South Florida University
University of Arizona Indigenous Teacher Education Program - Valerie Shirley, Co-PI
Navajo Technical University, Harry Whiting, Peter Romine, Golham Ehteshami, Scott Halliday, Steven Chischilly
Tohono O’odham Community College, Teresa Newberry and Kimberly Danny
San Carlos Apache College, Marin Ahumada
Navajo Tribal Utility Authority, Rex Kontz
Indian Health Services, Peter Littlehat
Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources, Chrystal Tulley-Cordova
Star School, Mark Sorensen
Tolani Lake Enterprises, Bill Edwards
LCR Watershed/Black Mesa Water Coalition, Kern Collymore
DigDeep, Emma Robbins
Former Delegate to the Navajo Nation Council, Hon. Walter Phelps
Greyhills Academy STEM Teacher, Mrs. Reny Mathew
Indige-FEWSS Advisory Committees
Internal Advisory Board
Greg Barron-Gafford | School of Geography, Development & Environment | gregbg@arizona.edu
Andrew Carnie | Dean, Graduate College | carnie@arizona.edu
Gene Giacomelli | Biosystems Engineering | giacomel@arizona.edu
James Hopkins | Udall Center, American Indian Studies | hopkinsj@arizona.edu
Allison Huff | Health Sciences | allison7@arizona.edu
Len Necefer | American Indian Studies | Lnecefer@arizona.edu
Tristan Reader | American Indian Studies | treader@arizona.edu
Christopher Scott | Udall Center, Geography | cascott@arizona.edu
Trent Teegerstrom | CALS Cooperative Extension | tteegers@arizona.edu
Joan Timeche | Native Nations Institute | timechej@arizona.edu
Ronald Trosper | American Indian Studies | rltrosper@arizona.edu
External Advisory Board
Sandra Begay | University of New Mexico
Michael Bernier | Coca-Cola
Ted Burhans | Tucson Electric Power (TEP)
Kern Collymore | LCR Watershed / Black Mesa Water Coalition
Scott Haase | National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Peter Littlehat | Indian Health Service (IHS)
Bryan Neztsosie | Navajo Community Member, Extension & Research Specialist at Diné College Land Grant Office
Walter Phelps | Navajo Community Member, former Delegate to the Navajo Nation Council
Donald Robinson | Diné College, School of Science & Technology
Peter Romine | NTU School of Engineering
Suzanne Singer | Native Renewables
Mark Sorensen | Director, STAR School