Colorado State University
Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship
Interests:
Indigenous and community-based natural resource stewardship, Indigenous research and data governance, climate resilienceBio:
Dominique 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 works in the Department of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship and leads the Indigenous Land and Data Stewards Lab.
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.
David-Chavez received her Ph.D. in Human Dimension of Natural Resources from CSU.
