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2018 Graduates

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Meet Our Graduates

Class of 2021 for the NAERCC, each standing with blankets and graduation regalia on

Class of 2021

Chelsea Bad Hawk (Bachelor of Science in Pyschology), Taryn Jim (Masters in Social Work), Tonya Dewey (Bachelor of Arts in Criminal Justice), Aly Sounding Sides (Bachelor of Science in Energy Resources Management and Development), Andi Valdez (Bachelors of General Studies with an emphasis in Native American & Indigenous Studies and Psychology), Dennis Makeshine (Bachelor of Arts in Visual & Fine Arts)

[This year's Spring 2021 Class Graduates all recieved their blankets but the Graduate Banquet was canceled due to COVID-19.]

Class of 2020

Alicia Underwood (BS in Agriculture Business), Christie Wildcat (BS in Native American & Indigenous Studies, Anthropology, Political Studies), Eric Bennett (BA in Secondary Education and History with an English as a second Language Endorsement), Kyliah Ferris (Masters in Speech Pathology), Odessa Oldham (BS in Agriculture Communications)

[This year's Spring 2020 Class Graduates all recieved their blankets but the Graduate Banquet was canceled due to COVID-19.]

NAERCC graduation class standing with blankets and dressed up in from of the UW sign

Class of 2019

Asnoldo Benitez (MS, Science & Mathematics Teaching Center, HAUB School), Taryn Jim (BA, Native American & Indigenous Studies), Vanessa Sorrels (PhD, Pharmacy), Colleen Friday (MS, Rangeland Ecology & Watershed Management), Mia Holt (BA, Native American & Indigenous Studies), Cassie Underwood (BA, Social Science), Cyrille Mitchell (BA, Psychology), Piram Duran (BA, Psychology)

2018 NAERCC graduation class standing with blankets in front of UW pictures

Class of 2018

Sevilla Soto (History and Native American & Indigenous Studies), Kyliah Ferris (Speech, Language, & Hearing Sciences), Hunter McFarland (Communications), Lee "Giz" Tendore (Native American & Indigenous Studies), Antonia Valdez (Elementary Education), Chaske Valdez (Native American & Indigenous Studies), Kailyn Washakie (Secondary English), Adanna Ryan (Counseling), David Mendoza (Anthropology & Haub School, Environmental and Natural Resources), Haylee Gobert (Agricultural and Applied Economics), Contessa Bonds (Masters in Healthcare Administration), Alex Terry (Agricultural Communications), Aldora White Eagle (PhD in Education), Taylor Stagner (Communications)