charlie amáyá scott, Ph.D.

scholar | educator | advocate

Born and raised within the Navajo Nation, charlie amáyá scott, Ph.D. is dedicated to creating and sharing educational digital content that inspires joy and justice. She has partnered with brands and organizations in support of climate, racial, gender, and social justice, celebrating her culture and language while sharing knowledge and scholarly insight about the lived experiences of Indigenous Peoples, gender and sexuality, decolonization, higher education, representation, and more.

She also is a public figure, speaking across many of the U.S. top influential colleges and universities offering poetry, theory, and visions of a future, centering and celebrating our Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQ+ Relatives while demanding for a more inclusive, intentional, and just educational system campus climate that supports, honors, and celebrates Indigenous brilliance.

My home-making project (doctoral dissertation) was a critical examination of Indigenous students’ descriptions and understandings of settler colonialism and how they themselves refuse settler colonialism. Since the completion of my home-making project in August 2024, I have directed my research pathways to four areas: Settler Colonialism, Indigenous Trans Studies, Narrative Change, and Decolonizing Arts-based Methodologies.  As an Indigenous scholar, my intentions are to center my cultural ways of knowing and ways of being with care and joy, cultivating educational pathways and curriculums that are more just, more liberating, and more supportive of the next generation of Indigenous brilliance.