Molly Bigknife Antonio, Ph.D.
Associate Faculty
Molly Bigknife Antonio (Shawnee, Delaware, Cherokee, Irish, English) has been working with youth in outdoor settings for over two decades. In addition to teaching for Prescott College, she is the co-founder, board member and executive director of the non-profit organization, Pollen Circles, Inc.
The mission of Pollen Circles is to promote Indigenous wellness culturally, individually, and collectively using traditional, creative, and environmental-based experiential (hands-on) learning activities and projects. Activities are intended to strengthen cultural knowledge/skills locally, inter-tribally and multi-culturally, bringing awareness and solutions to environmental and cultural issues, while nurturing one's health, creativity and self-awareness. Through the facilitation of these activities we weave together the Navajo (Diné) components of the holistic self – emotional being, mental being, physical being, and spiritual being with holistic wellness, internally and externally, as an intended outcome.
Education
EducationMolly received her Ph.D. in Sustainability education from Prescott College in 2019 and her M.A. in Adventure Education/ Indigenous Studies emphsis from Prescott College in 2006. She received her B.A. from the University of Arizona/Arizona International College in 2004 and her A.F.A. from the Institute of American Indian Arts in 1993.
Publications
PublicationsBigknife Antonio, M. (2017). Navajo youth: Cultivating healthy relationships through traditional reciprocity. In J. M. Canty (Ed.) Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women's Voices, 143-162. New York, NY: Routledge.
Bigknife Antonio, M. (2006). Creating an Indigenous experiential learning model.(Master’s thesis). Available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database. (UMI No. 1456710)
