College

Warner College of Natural Resources

Department

Forest and Rangeland Stewardship

Category

Climate Change, Indigenous and community-based natural resource stewardship, Community Resilience

Areas of Expertise

Policy, Indigenous issues, Climate resilience

Dominique David-Chavez

David-Chavez focuses on Indigenous research governance in environmental policy and decision-making, as well as community-based climate research and multicultural science education.

She leads the Indigenous Land and Data Stewards Lab, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship and an Associate with the Native Nations Institute at the Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at University of Arizona, working in partnership with the Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance. To contact her, please use this form.

David-Chavez draws from her experiences as a multicultural Caribbean Indigenous (Arawak Taíno) research scientist, mentor, learner and mother in her scholarship and practice. In doing so, she holds an intergenerational commitment toward supporting culturally grounded community members, including youth, elders, educators and farmers as researchers, restoring pathways for knowledge regeneration with the original stewards of Indigenous knowledge systems and lands in which they are embedded.

Her work is published in the Journal of Ethnobiology, AlterNative and Cultural Studies of Science Education, among others. David-Chavez received B.S. in earth sciences from Montana State University and her Ph.D. in Human Dimension of Natural Resources from CSU.