Alex Red Corn

Alex Red Corn (Ed.D) is a citizen of the Osage Nation (𐓷𐓘𐓻𐓘𐓻𐓟), where he is a member of the 𐓲𐓣𐓻𐓪𐓷𐓘𐓯𐓰𐓘𐓤𐓟 (Gentle Sky/Peacekeeper) clan, with family roots in the 𐓷𐓘𐓸𐓘𐓪𐓧𐓣͘ district near Pawhuska, Oklahoma (USA).

With a background in Educational Leadership and American Indian educational systems advocacy, Dr. Red Corn also serves as Executive Director of the Kansas Association for Native American Education (KANAE), and in 2022 he become the Chair of the new Kansas Advisory Council for Indigenous Education (KACIE).

At his former institution (K-State), he developed the new Indigenous Educational Leadership Graduate Certificate program, as well partnership programs with the Osage Nation that graduated two cohorts of Osage leaders with master’s degrees in educational leadership. Overall, Dr. Red Corn's scholarship is focused on building capacities for Native Nations to take on a more prominent role in the education of their citizens. 

Towards this goal, he has consulted with school and tribal leaders across the country on variety of topics related to advancing education for, about, and with Indigenous peoples, communities, and Nations.  Additionally, Dr. Red Corn has worked to bridge the fields of rural and Indigenous education through a variety of scholarly endeavors, and also teaches courses in qualitative research methods, specializing in Indigenous approaches to research and autoethnography.