Miriam Jorgensen is a Research Director of the Native Nations Institute at the University of Arizona. She is co-founder of the University of Arizona Indigenous Governance certificate program and editor of Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and Development (2007). Her work – in the US, Canada, and Australia – focuses on Indigenous governance and development and has addressed issues as wide-ranging as welfare policy, policing and justice systems, natural resources, cultural stewardship, land ownership, enterprise management, financial education, and entrepreneurship.