Asst. Professor/Director 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 Elementary Education at Northern New Mexico College where she works with a student population that is 82% Hispanic and Native American. Dr. Gray graduated from the Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute (GER2I) at Purdue University in 2020, holds a certificate in qualitative research methods. 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 a board member of The New Mexico Association for the Gifted, and an active member of The National Association for Gifted Children: on the Executive Committee for the Special Populations Network; an invited member of the Diversity and Equity Committee, and an organizing member of the Native American, Alaska Native, and Indigenous Peoples Special Interest Group. 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 focused on educational equity for historically underserved student populations with gifts and talents, with a focus on American Indian and Alaska Native youth. This includes journal articles, book chapters, symposiums and pre-conference events.
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Signature Session: "Merciless Indian Savages": Disrupting Deficit Perspectives of Native Students
Saturday, November 11, 2023
8:00 AM – 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time