Dr. Hollie Mackey on Getting Beyond Marginality and Growing Leaders

Jan 26, 2024

Dr. Hollie Mackey, expert in field building and policy making, discusses her work on indigenous education and the importance of school accessibility. She emphasizes the need for systemic change, addressing assimilation, and improving achievement rates for native students. The podcast also explores the significance of culturally relevant teaching and nurturing the education ecosystem.

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Introduction

00:00 • 6min

Assimilation in Indigenous Spaces and the Importance of School Accessibility

05:42 • 10min

Importance of Open Doors and Avoiding Lateral Oppression

15:51 • 9min

Importance of Setting the Context for Achievement Rates of Native Students

24:52 • 4min

Culturally Relevant Teaching and Nurturing the Education Ecosystem

28:46 • 2min

This episode of the Getting Smart Podcast is part of a new short monthly series where Mason Pashia is joined by Dr. Jason Cummins, a previous guest and a friend of the podcast, to speak with indigenous leaders and academics to discuss how indigenous ways of knowing and leading can, and should, shape the education system.

On this episode of the Getting Smart Podcast Mason Pashia is joined by Dr. Jason Cummins and Dr. Hollie Mackey to discuss her incredibly important work in field building, policy and research and getting beyond marginality.

Dr. Hollie J Mackey is an enrolled member of the Northern Cheyenne nation presently located in Southeastern Montana and Associate Professor of Education at North Dakota State University. Her scholarship empirically examines the effects of structural inequity in Indigenous and other marginalized populations in educational leadership and public policy using multiple critical frameworks and methodologies. As an experienced policy consultant, public speaker, program evaluator, and community educator, she seeks to bridge theory and practice as a means of addressing complex social issues from an interdisciplinary perspective. She is the recipient of the D. J. Willower Center for the Study of Leadership and Ethics Award for Excellence and the Jack A. Culbertson Award for outstanding accomplishments as a junior professor of educational leadership. She serves as the Associate Co-Director for the Barbara L. Jackson Scholars Network at the University Council for Educational Administration and Associate Director of the Consortium for the Study of Leadership and Ethics in Education. She earned her Bachelors and Masters of Science in Public Relations at Montana State University-Billings, Masters of Legal Studies in Indigenous People’s Law at the University of Oklahoma, and Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the Pennsylvania State University.

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