David Begay, Ph.D., is a member of the Navajo Nation. He received his B.A.and M.A. from the University of Arizona, Tucson, in Political Science with a concentration in Policy Analysis and Indian Policy and Law Studies. He received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, CA, witha concentration in Indigenous Science Education and Application of TraditionalKnowledge. David is Adjunct faculty at NAU, Flagstaff, in the Department ofPhysics and Astronomy. He is VP for the Indigenous Education Institute, FridayHarbor, WA and works with the University of California, Berkeley, Space SciencesLaboratory through a grant from the National Science Foundation. He also workswith NASA, JPL and Goddard Space Flight Center. He is currently Associate Research Professor with UNM, Albuquerque, in the College of Pharmacy. David is a cultural consultant to many organizations and corporations both in the United States and internationally.