About the Namesake and Fund
Dr. Henrietta Mann is a beloved affiliate of these Leadership for Sustainability Graduate programs. Dr. Mann is the founding President of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal College and is Professor Emerita at Montana State University, where she was the first to occupy the Katz Endowed Chair in Native American Studies.
Dr. Mann’s immense contributions to Tribal education and Native American Studies continue to be recognized through many honors and awards. Most recently, Dr. Mann earned the acclaimed 2021 National Humanities Medal presented by the National Endowment for the Humanities and President Joe Biden during the Arts and Humanities Award Ceremony and dinner at the White House in March 2023.
Additional information
In 2023, UVM's Rubenstein School for the Environment and Natural Resources established a scholarship fund to make it possible for students in service to Indigenous and Tribal Communities to seek academic credentials within the school's Leadership for Sustainability programs.
The Dr. Henrietta Mann Scholarship Fund will support participation in the array of credentialing opportunities and programs, created in partnership with Indigenous and Tribal leaders over the last decade at the request of many community partners and affiliates. Taken together, these offerings provide a pathway from professional certificates all the way to graduate degree programs (including a newly approved PhD in Transdisciplinary Leadership and Creativity for Sustainability). These programs are rooted in culturally sustaining practices and led in partnership with Tribal & Indigenous-led communities and organizations like Gathering Power.
Please consider making a gift in honor of her leadership, and in honor of the many students who will benefit from it, and the complex work of service to both the human and more-than-human worlds that lies ahead.
Dr. Henrietta Mann Scholarship
A scholarship supporting students in service to Indigenous and Tribal Communities through UVM's Rubenstein School Leadership for Sustainability programs.