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About Our Partnership
The UW Tacoma School of Education is honored to have partnered with Muckleshoot Tribal College (MTC) to offer Indigenous-centered cohorts for the EdD Program (Cohort 2020 and Cohort 2023) and MEd (Cohort 2021). For more information about future Muckleshoot cohorts, please visit: www.muckleshoot.nsn.us.
UW Tacoma's EdD program has begun annual admissions, effective June 2026. In addition to justice-oriented educators with a commitment to the EdD values, we welcome educational leaders committed to serving Indigenous and Native American communities, families, learners, organizations, and/or Tribal schools to consider applying to on-campus or online cohorts (with the first online cohort opening in summer 2027). The EdD program continues to infuse Indigenous leadership, learnings, approaches, and partners across the 3-year curriculum and program goals.
For more information about the Doctoral Program in Educational Leadership (EdD), contact: Ashley Walker, MEd, Advising Lead, School of Education, aew7@uw.edu.
Artwork and logo created by Muckleshoot tribal member, Samuel Obrovac, 2021
2023 Cohort Graduates
Carrying on the traditions of her education-oriented family, Marisa Jones, ’23, Ed.D. Educational Leadership, is fulfilling her sacred obligations to future generations.
After years and decades of being told she was in the wrong place, Mona Halcomb, ’23, Ed.D. Educational Leadership, is just getting started.
Eileen Jimenez, ’23, Ed.D. Educational Leadership, embodies the spirits of her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, and proudly aspires to be, like them, a persona educada.
Support from the circle of students in the Muckleshoot Cohort Ed.D. program is a key element that got Debbie Hales, ’23, Ed.D. Educational Leadership, through the rigors of her doctoral studies.
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