Mary Jo Tippeconnic Fox, PhD is a Research Professor of American Indian Studies, and affiliate faculty in Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona. She is Comanche/Cherokee and an enrolled member of the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma. Her scholarly activities are focused on historical and contemporary Native American women’s issues, American Indian Studies, and American Indian education with an emphasis on higher education. Fox co-edited Serving Native American Students in Higher Education, and is currently co-editing American Indian Studies Ph.D. Students Telling Their Stories.