Jessica Matsaw, MS
Jessica is an enrolled member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and mother of four children. Jessica received her B.S. (2017) and M.Ed. from the University of Idaho in 2019, with a Diversity & Stratification Academic Certificate. Jessica is an Indigenous educator with two teaching certifications through the state of Idaho. Jessica is an alumnus to the U of I’s Indigenous knowledge for Effective Education Program (IKEEP), specializing in serving students from Indigenous communities. ambitions as an educator are to celebrate Indigenous ingenuity, intellect, and inquiry. Jessica’s teaching methods focus on self-determination, Indigenous pedagogy, decolonizing methodologies, social justice, and community-based power. Jessica currently teaches at a tribal high school located on the Fort Hall, Indian reservation.
Tuesday 14th Sept
Nation-building as an Educator and Scientist through tribal employment & as co-founders of River Newe, an Indigenous owned nonprofit organization
We will present an overview, film clip, and update on River Newe, tribal employment roles, and members of our community interactions. There is importance to the positionality as tribal employees with the Shoshone-Bannock Tribal government that is becoming pertinent to us and specific to our nation. The specificity is a pattern of storytelling (living metaphors) from theory to praxis, on-the-ground, and real-time cultural-relevancy of experiences. We are concurrently working on proposals to increase this activity and gain support to carry out the work among Indigenous Pedagogy and Methodology development. Through our daily work we are creating up and coming active agents of climate change sciences (social, political, environmental, and legal intersections) through Shoshone-Bannock Traditional Ecological Knowledge (SBTEK) frameworks.