Indigitize Monthly Community of Practice Virtual Gathering

Caitlin Bordeaux and Josiah Hester from Ulu Lāhui Foundation will co-facilitate a space for educators working with emerging technologies, CS, and AI in Indigenous communities to slow down, connect, and learn from one another.

Caitlin Bordeaux (Sicangu Lakota) is the Director of Educator Empowerment and Instructional Design at Indigitize, where she leads curriculum development and professional learning initiatives that integrate computer science, artificial intelligence, and Indigenous ways of knowing. Her expertise is teaching at the high school level, specializing in computer science, technology, and STEM Career and Technical Education (CTE). Outside of her professional work, Caitlin loves to run and sew.

Josiah Hester is an Associate Professor of Computing at Georgia Tech and Executive Director of the Ulu Lāhui Foundation, a Native Hawaiian-led nonprofit advancing food sovereignty and climate resilience through ʻāina-based, community-centered technology and educational programming. His work focuses on sustainable computing broadly, including low-power, edge AI systems that support local agriculture and environmental stewardship. In Hawaiʻi, he leads AgTech initiatives and co-develops KumuConnect, a place-based AI and data platform for creating place-based, culturally revitalizing, and bilingual curricula. He also co-leads the STRONG Manoomin Collective, building sovereign sensing systems with Great Lakes Native Nations to protect manoomin (wild rice) ecosystems.