The Centering Culture team is committed to contributing practical, accessible curricula and toolkits to support teams dedicated to developing their own and their teams’ cultural awareness, knowledge, and skills. Centering Culture tools and resources are designed and developed in partnership with practitioners, community members, and stakeholders in fields and with lived experiences relevant to the respective community and professional context.
As part of an NSF funded effort, the community research team seeks to develop resources and trainings to support researchers, community partners, and the public in learning how to conduct ethical research that is grounded in values of reciprocity, relationality, and respect. Our resources and trainings are available here.
The Braiding Knowledge project is a collaboration between Dr. Melissa Tehee, Dr. Breanne Litts, and Dr. Rogelio Cardona-Rivera that seeks to create new forms of technology that support Indigenous perspectives. Learn more here on our project website.
Our team seeks to develop training and infrastructure that supports development of cultural awareness, knowledge, and skills across a range of healthcare contexts.
We Got the Beat (WGB) is a project founded by Cedric Mannie and Kameica Yazzie in collaboration with Dr. Breanne Litts. WGB aims to impact young people’s perception of health through the use of computers with the aim of informing literature about health, health sciences, computer programming, and especially learning sciences.
Culturally Responsive Making: Developing High-Low Tech Maker Activities in Local and Mobile Spaces for Supporting American Indian Youth is a two-year, National Science Foundation (#1623404) funded project in collaboration with Arizona State University and the University of Pennsylvania. The goal of this project is to develop culturally responsive making activities and makerspaces with two Indigenous communities, one in Utah and one in Arizona.
