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Dr. Carma M. Claw is an assistant professor of management in the School of Business Administration at Fort Lewis College. Her research interest areas include strategic resources, ethics, leadership, indigenous business management, and sovereignty as a resource for organizations. Her research has appeared in Leadership and the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law. Dr. Claw has presented at the Academy of Management, Southern Academy of Management, Western Academy of Management, Quantum Storytelling, and Tribal Wisdom for Business Ethics conferences. Additionally, she is an author in the first ever tribal business textbook--American Indian Business Principles and Practices, in the Indigenous Aspirations and Rights, and Tribal Wisdom for Business Ethics books. Before earning a doctoral degree, she worked over seventeen years in industry with a majority of those years at two top-flight defense electronics companies. Dr. Claw is a citizen of the Dinè (Navajo) Nation. She is Bitah'nii and Kinłichii'nii of Aneth, Utah.
Dr. Claw is the first Dinè business professor in the country. Read more in the Durango Herald.