Aresta Tsosie-Paddock is an Assistant Professor in the Department American Indian Studies and Department of Linguistics at the University of Arizona. Aresta is a citizen of the Navajo Nation from Sand Springs, Arizona. Her Navajo clans are Naakai Dine’é (Journeying People)/Tó ‘aheedliníinii (Water Flows Together) born for Bįįh bitoo’nii (Deer Springs), maternal grandfathers are Tł’ízí láni (Many Goats) and paternal grandfathers are Kinyaa’áanii (Towering House). She is a fluent speaker of her Diné language.  Her teaching and scholarly work centers and intersects with displacement and dispossession from land and cultural heritage, urban American Indian studies, Diné history and philosophy, Native women, Navajo language, and American Indian law and policy. She is involved with her Diné community to address the impacts of relocation on second and third generation Navajo relocatees. Additionally, her research includes language revitalization, language technology, and pedagogy.