Meet the Staff

Director

Dr. Charlotte E. Davidson
(pronouns: she/her/hers)
Diné/Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation

Dr. Charlotte E. Davidson is Diné and a citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, also known as the Three Affiliated Tribes. She is the daughter of Nora (Yazzie) Wilkinson and the late Wilbur D. Wilkinson, Sr. Her maternal grandparents are Sally (Manygoats) Yazzie and Kee Horseherder-Yazzie. Her paternal grandparents are Molly (Wolf) Wilkinson and Ernest P. Wilkinson. Concerning kinship relations, she is of the Tó'aheedlíinii (Water Flows Together People), born for the Waterbuster People. Her maternal grandfather’s clan is Kinłichíi’nii (Red House People), and her paternal grandfather is the Flint Knife clan.

She earned her B.A. degree in American Indian Studies from Haskell Indian Nations University and her M.Ed. degree and Ph.D., respectively, in Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Davidson presents nationally on Indigenous higher education, Indigenous matrilineal pedagogies, and place-based relationalities. She has written and co-authored chapters in Beyond the Asterisk: Understanding Native Students in Higher Education; Indigenous Leadership in Higher Education; Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education; A Better Future: The Role of Higher Education for Displaced and Marginalised People; and Indigenous Motherhood in the Academy.

Dr. Davidson is the recipient of the 2025 Student Affairs Outstanding New Staff Award and the 2025 Student Affairs Inclusive Excellence Staff Award. She has also designed and led two programs recognized by Student Affairs: the Native American House Ambassador Program, which received the 2025 Outstanding Program Social Justice Award, and the Indigenous Modality Making Collective, honored with the 2024 Student Affairs Outstanding Assessment Program Award.

Assistant Director

Vacant

Office Support Specialist

Patricia Rosario
(pronouns: she/her/hers)