Since 2006, Dr. Elmer Guy has served as the president of Navajo Technical University (NTU), which is a member of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), a community of 37 tribally and federally chartered institutions of higher education. Navajo Technical University offers certificate to master’s degree programs.

Prior to becoming president, Dr. Guy also served NTU as its vice president of academics and student services and its dean of instruction. In 2011 and 2012, under Dr. Guy’s leadership, NTU was named one of the top 120 community colleges in the United States by the Aspen Institute’s College Excellence Program.

Before joining NTU, Dr. Guy was appointed by the Navajo Nation president to serve as both the executive director and deputy director of the Navajo Nation Department of Education. During his tenure with the Navajo Nation Department of Education, several needed programs were successfully developed and implemented, including two trusts for the handicapped ($7 million) and for vocational education programs ($6 million); the Navajo Medicine Man Apprentice School; and a comprehensive teacher education program, all of which have been institutionalized and remain in full operation.

Dr. Guy earned his undergraduate and doctorate degrees from the University of Arizona, and in between, a graduate degree from the University of San Francisco. Dr. Guy serves on the board of the American Indian High Education Consortium, the American Indian College Fund board, the College Board’s Community Colleges Advisory Panel, as well as other regional and national associations.

Tabe, imumi.
Ti yaw ta maka purux ki Kong-Ā -Na ka tu Sinkang.
Ta’u ka Siraya ta ti yaw.
Ti Bavaragh Dagalomai ta nanang aw.
Matawtaw’ux ko tu Tonghwa Daygako.

Dr. Jolan Hsieh (Bavaragh Dagalomai) is from Siraya Nation of Taiwan. She is a professor at the Dept. of Ethnic Relations and Cultures and Director of Center for International Indigenous Affairs from College of Indigenous Studies at National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan.

She received her Ph. D degree in Justice Studies (2002) from Arizona State University - Tempe, USA. Her research expertise are Human Rights, Law and Society, Gender / Ethnic / Class Studies, Critical Legal Studies and Transitional Justice, Global Indigenous Movements and Politics, Indigenous Education and Mainstreaming Policy.

Jolan served as advisor to the Presidential Office's Indigenous Peoples' Historical and Transitional Justice Committee and Convener of Subcommittee on Reconciliation.