Ph.D. in Sustainability Education Symposium
The annual Ph.D. in Sustainability Education Symposium is an opportunity for Prescott College’s doctoral community to convene in person on the Prescott College campus to connect, celebrate, and honor doctoral student research.
MAY 6-8, 2025
Prescott College: Crossroads Center
220 Grove Avenue, Prescott AZ
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Prescott’s Ph.D. Sustainability Education Symposium provides both information and inspiration as students continue on their learning path. A complete schedule of events, including Dissertation presentations and panel discussions, provide the opportunity for students to present research, ideas, and work-in-progress to peers and faculty, receiving both support and challenge in return. The symposium also includes opportunities to learn about the work of others in the field, meet with their faculty, and gather with their cohort of fellow learners.
FEATURED SPEAKERS
Jeanine M. Canty, PhD
Book Talk/Happy Hour:“Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices”
Wednesday, May 7th, 4:30-5:30 pm – Crossroads Center
Jeanine M. Canty, PhD, is a professor of transformative studies at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, telecommuting from Boulder, CO. Formerly the chair of environmental studies at Naropa University, she continues to teach at Naropa and at Pacifica Graduate Institute’s ecopsychology certificate program. A lover of nature, justice, and contemplative practice, her teaching intersects issues of social and ecological justice, ecopsychology, and the process of worldview expansion and change. She is author of Returning the Self to Nature: Undoing our Collective Narcissism and Healing our Planet (Shambhala Publications, 2022) and her most recent edited book is an expanded, second edition of Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices (2025).
Tony Skrelunas, MBA
PhD in Sustainability Education Commencement Speaker
Friday, May 9th, 9:00 am – Outdoors, on the Quad Outside of Manzanita
Tony was raised in the Dine Traditions by his grandparents. He followed their teachings of resilience to attain B.A. and M.B.A. Business Degrees and a fulfilling career. He is also honored to serve as a Trustee of Prescott College.
Mr. Skrelunas is the division director for the Economic Division of the Navajo Nation. He is serving for the second time in this role, first serving during the Kelsey Begay Administration.
Mr. Skrelunas is a founder of Navajo Power PBC, where he drove work in developing a utility scale solar development company that provides breakthrough dialogue and benefits to local land permittees and communities. He is also advised community leaders and entrepreneurs on just transition business planning, securing financing, building new types of partnerships. He is also a founder and first president of Navajo Shopping Centers Inc. Beyond energy, his specialty is shopping centers, bed & breakfasts and sustainable tourism, organic traditional agriculture, food companies and grocery stores.
Mr. Skrelunas founded Grand Canyon Trust’s Native America Program and the Arizona American Indian Tourism Association (AAITA). He was one of the youngest executives for the Navajo Nation, directing work to create the Local Governance Act and Alternative Forms of Local Governance in his 20’s. He then served as the Executive Director of Economic Development for the Navajo Nation where he led efforts to securing Federal delegation of business site leasing authority from the Bureau of Indian Affairs, creating the local sales tax that stays in the local community of tax incidence, serving as the chief negotiator on the $80 million Antelope Point Marina, and privatizing the Navajo Times and Navajo Shopping Centers Corporations.
Mr. Skrelunas recently served over 13 years as the Native America Program Director at Grand Canyon Trust where he led work to create sustainable local community guided economies. Successes include the Shonto Marketplace, Monument Valley Resort, MDC Hopi Learning Center, 200 solar systems installed in reservation homes, and many more. He also founded and managed the Colorado Plateau Inter Tribal Gatherings to re invigorate use of Traditional Ecological Knowledge to guide the preservation of land and mitigate the impacts of climate change on tribal communities.
This event is free of charge and open to the community at large including alumni, so invite your colleagues, friends, and family.