The school leader getting New Mexico’s tribes online

Indigenous language teachers prepare for a remote virtual lesson in Santa Clara Pueblo library in February 2021. — Thomson Reuters Foundation/Handout by Santa Fe Indian School

Working with rural tribal communities in the southwestern US state of New Mexico, Kimball Sekaquaptewa knows more than most about the challenges of remote schooling.

As chief technology director at Santa Fe Indian School, she serves more than 700 students in 19 rural pueblos, and has spent the last year working to get them online with limited access to high-speed Internet.