Mini bio: 

Lorri J. Santamaría (Louisiana Creole Choctaw descent) is the Director & Principal Investigator for Healing the Soul –Curando el Alma – Na Sánaeé Inié and Director for Proyecto ACCESO at The Mixteco Indígena Community Organizing Project (MICOP). Dr. Santamaría is a former Professor of Multilingual and Multicultural Education and Educational Leadership in the Schools of Education at California State University, San Marcos and The University of Auckland in New Zealand. With over 50 scholarly books and publications, her research interests are centered around critical aspects of social justice & equity, Indigeneity, Indigenous healing, and diversity as a resource. Her focus is on international culturally responsive/ sustainable educational leadership, Spiritual Activism and anti-racist research practices. She has recently given a TEDx Talk titled, “Co-Decolonization as Spiritual Activism: A Matter of Life and Breath.” In 2017 she was granted the Jeffrey V. Bennett Award for Outstanding International Research for the University Council of Educational Administration (UCEA). Selected publications include: Developing and Sustaining Mixtec Thought Leadership: Immigrant Indigenous Women’s Construction of Community Serving Research (with others in press, Transformations series by the University of Illinois Press); Culturally Responsive leadership in Higher Education (with A. Santamaría 2015, Routledge); and Applied Leadership in Education (with A. Santamaria 2012, Routledge).

Links and Resources:

INTERVIEW VIDEOS ARE FORTHCOMING. The 2017 interview with Lorri will be archived and accessible in the near future. Thank you.

• American Educational Research Association Podcast with Drs. Lorri Santamaría, Django Paris, and Tonikiaa Orange on “Culturally Responsive and Sustaining Pedagogy.”
• The Pharm Community Podcast: This week Sarah talks with Dr. Lorri Many Rivers Santamaria, a Ventura-based yoga teacher, reiki master, and director of MICOP’s Healing the Soul, a research project investigating indigenous Mixteco healing modalities.
• Cross-Cultural Women Scholars in Academe
• Interview with Lorri J. Santamaría, lead author of Cross Cultural Women Scholars in Academe
• Te Ara Hou—A new pathway for leading Māori success as Māori | New Zealand Council for Educational Research
• “Indigenous Urban School Leadership”
• Culturally Responsive Leadership in Education: Engaging Social Justice and Equity for Improvement