NM Professor Recruiting Native American Teachers to Work in Their Hometowns

Glenabah Martinez knows firsthand the benefits teachers and students share when they are from the same community. She wants to help fast track Indigenous college grads to teach in public schools.

Martinez (Taos/Diné), taught students from Taos Pueblo but was immersed in the culture and traditions that she shares with those students outside the school. 

Now, in her role as a professor at the University of New Mexico, she wants to expand that opportunity for future educators fresh out of college that can be part of reforming public education in the state and modeling a path toward maintaining traditional cultures while becoming leaders. 

By Brian Lopez