Assistant Professor and Director of Elementary Education
Northern New Mexico College, New Mexico
Anne M. Gray, Ph.D., (she/her) is Bilagáana, married to Táchii’nii, with four Diné children. She is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Elementary Education Program at Northern New Mexico College. Dr. Gray graduated from the Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute (GER2I) at Purdue University with a certificate in qualitative research methods in 2020, and for two years served as the Educational Assessment Specialist of a Title V grant at New Mexico Tech. In graduate school she analyzed four years of census data (2000, 2012, 2014, 2016) from the Civil Right Data Collection, and co-authored the report, Access denied/system failure: Gifted Education in the United States: Laws, Access, Equity, and Missingness Across the Country by Locale, Title I School Status, and Race (Gentry et al., 2019). Prior to graduate school she taught gifted education and middle school science at a Bureau of Indian Education grant school on the Navajo Nation. Dr. Gray is an active member of The National Association for Gifted Children, where she is an organizing member of the Native American, Alaska Native, and Indigenous Peoples Special Interest Group and a member of the Diversity and Equity Committee. Additionally, she is an active member of The American Educational Research Association and participates regularly in reviewing and presenting for the annual conference. Much of Dr. Gray’s work has been on educational equity for historically underserved student populations with gifts and talents, with a focus on American Indian and Alaska Native students. This includes journal articles, book chapters, symposiums and pre-conference events.
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Saturday, November 19, 2022
9:15 AM – 10:15 AM