Bryan Brayboy is Associate Professor in the School of Social Transformation at Arizona State University. His scholarship, teaching, and service centers on underrepresented students and faculty in higher education. His research focuses on the strategies used to achieve academic success by American Indian college students, and the cultural, emotional, psychological, political, and financial costs and benefits of this academic success. In 2002, he founded the University of Utah American Indian Teacher Training Program, which aims to prepare indigenous educators to return to their communities and work with Indigenous children.