David Begay is a Grant Writer for the Shonto Preparatory School. He is also a Navajo Cultural Consultant of Higher Education Programs. David received his BA and MA from the University of Arizona, Tucson, in Political Science with a concentration in Policy Analysis and American Indian Policy and Law Studies. He received his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, with a concentration in Indigenous Education and Application of Traditional Knowledge. David currently works with the Stargazer Program and Space Grant in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at NAU. He also consults with Jet Propulsion Lab/NASA on curriculum development and indigenous astronomy.