Jennie DeGroat

Affiliation

Northern Arizona University

Biography

Jennie DeGroat (Diné) is an Associate Teaching Professor within the Bilingual and Multicultural Education department at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ. She is also an Indigenous Language Immersion consultant and advocate who assists Indigenous communities with language revitalization efforts across Native country. Notable work includes planning and implementing a Makav language model for the Tribally-owned school, Anya Itpak, the first of its kind in the U.S., located on the Pipe Aha Makav homeland in Needles, CA which opened in the fall of 2019. Her work focuses on the importance of oral language immersion as the impetus for creating speakers.