Locklear to address ‘Understanding and Supporting Southeast American Indians’

Leslie Locklear, Ph.D., is program coordinator for UNC Pembroke’s First Americans Teacher Education and First Americans Educational Leadership programs. She will present “Who’z Ya People: Understanding and Supporting Southeast American Indians” at 5 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 19.

Register to view this Zoom event, which is in celebration of National Native American Heritage Month. The Cato College of Education and Cheryl Waites Spellman, interim special assistant to the chancellor for diversity and inclusion, are hosting this presentation.

Locklear, a member of the Lumbee, Waccamaw Siouan and Coharie tribes, hails from Hoke County, North Carolina. She focuses on culturally relevant curriculum, working with American Indian youth councils, college and career counseling and supporting educators in the classroom. She completed bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UNC Chapel Hill in elementary education and school counseling, respectively. Her doctorate, in Educational Studies and Cultural Foundations, is from UNC Greensboro.