Josephine Kilde Hooded During ATLAS Graduation

Jo Kilde Hooding

Josephine Kilde PhD was hooded during ATLAS graduation ceremonies on May 6.

Josephine Kilde, a Kenyan national and the first member of her family to attend college, was hooded during graduation ceremonies on May 6, having successfully defended her dissertation earlier in the semester. Her thesis, titled “Collaborative Learning and Support Environment for Teachers,” details research she conducted in collaboration with Los Alamos National Laboratory, working closely with K–8 teachers in seven Native American Pueblo schools in Northern New Mexico. The goal was to provide teachers with an online platform to share best practices and epistemologies. In 2013, she moved to Espanola, NM, to be closer to the community she was researching.

Kilde’s ethnographic research is an investigation of the role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in creating communities of practice among Native American Pueblo teachers in rural New Mexico. Her research involved developing CLASET (Collaborative Learning and Support Environment for Teachers), an online platform for teachers in seven Pueblo schools that would provide a collaborative space to share best practices for professional development.

In addition to Kilde, ATLAS graduation marked the completion of three graduate students completing their MS in Information and Communication Technology for Development, 89 TAM students completing the certificate program and 59 TAM students completing the minor.