Dr. Heather Shotton is the college’s first Indigenous president.
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Indigenous students are a third of the student body at Fort Lewis College in Durango. But the school has never had an Indigenous president. Until now. Dr. Heather Shotton was just confirmed – a woman whose relatives survived the abusive boarding schools that preceded Fort Lewis College today.
Shotton spoke to Colorado Matters host Ryan Warner about her formative years, job readiness in rural Colorado, and seismic changes in education under President Trump.
