Ted Jojola, PhD, is an Indigenous scholar, planner, designer, and emeritus professor whose work centers on Indigenous sovereignty, self-determination, and community development. He advances Indigenous planning as a practice grounded in traditional knowledge, cultural values, land relationships, and community participation. Jojola critiques Western planning models that marginalize Indigenous perspectives and promotes approaches that support cultural continuity, decolonization, and Indigenous control over land, institutions, narratives, and collective futures. He is founder and director of the Indigenous Design and Planning Institute, University of New Mexico and is an enrolled member of the Isleta Pueblo nation.