During 2014 and 2019, the Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice supported one Native American/First Nations Oxford-Haury Scholar and up to ten UArizona Carson-Haury Scholars.
Native American/First Nations Oxford-Haury Scholar.
This one-year scholarship for indigenous students from the United States or Canada supported studies in a master's program at Linacre College of the United Kingdom's Oxford University. The award covered tuition, living costs, and associated visa/travel costs for one recipient each year.
Molita Yazzie obtained the Native American/First Nations Oxford-Haury Scholarship in 2015. Molita Yazzie, from the Navajo Nation in northeast Arizona, grew up without manufactured toys, reading everything she could with the desire to improve her life and those of her children. Her life has been an example of hard-earned victories, from living in a dirt floor shack as a child with no electricity or running water to working full-time as a single mother while completing college.
After Yazzie obtained an associate's degree in arts and general studies, she went on to complete a Bachelor’s in Sociology with a minor in American Indian Studies at Arizona State University. In August 2015, Yazzie will complete a Masters of Administration in Health Science and a Graduate Certificate in Public Management at Northern Arizona University. Yazzie completed a one-year Master of Science in Social Anthropology at Linacre College, Oxford University.
Learn more about Linacre College.
Carson-Haury Scholars
The Haury Program partnered with the Carson Scholars Program to support UArizona PhD, PhD-bound or masters students whose interdisciplinary studies further knowledge and awareness of natural environments and the interactions between environments and people. The UArizona Arizona Institute for Resilient Environments and Societies administers the program.