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After overcoming abuse, Navajo Educational Psychology student finds her way back to earn her Ph.D.

Posted by College of Education on January 21, 2021

When she was in fourth grade, Esther Cadman’s teacher asked her a question that changed her life: “What do you want to be when you grow up?”

It’s a simple question every elementary school student has been asked, but for Cadman, this question opened the door to future possibilities, which was an idea she never had before: that she could be whatever she wanted. For that 10-year-old in Albuquerque, New Mexico, living in a home with alcoholism and domestic violence, that meant earning a doctorate.

Read more here from NAU News:  Graduate Esther Cadman: After overcoming abuse, Navajo student finds her way back to earn her Ph.D.

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Department of Educational Psychology
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Room 110 Building 27
Eastburn Education
801 S Knoles Dr
Flagstaff, AZ 86011
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eps@nau.edu
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928-523-7103
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