Aretha Matt

Student to Academic Professoriate for American Indians (SAPAI) AGEP
University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ



Aretha is a doctoral student at the University of Arizona working on her doctoral dissertation titled “Reclamation and Survivance: Diné Literacies and the Practice of Rhetorical Sovereignty.” She is a student in the Department of English majoring in Rhetoric, Composition and the Teaching of English.

Aretha received a Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Northern Arizona University (NAU) in Flagstaff, Arizona. She also received a Master of Education in Educational Leadership and a Master of Arts in English at NAU.

Aretha is a member of the Navajo Nation and grew up in Querino Canyon, Arizona. She identifies as the Charcoal Streaked Division of Red Running into the Water clan and is born for the Towering House clan.

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