Brookney Beaverheart Claire Boston Gondara (Northern Cheyenne) is an American academic administrator, activist, and advocate for women and minorities in higher education.
Then a single mother, Boston said that she recognized she needed more education and job stability in order to support her daughter.
[3] She pursued higher education, earning a bachelor's degree (1995) in sociology and Native American studies at Montana State University Billings, where she was supported financially by her tribe.
[6] In 2005, Gondara became the first woman from the Northern Cheyenne to earn a doctoral degree, completing a PhD in Education, with an emphasis in community college leadership, at Oregon State University in Portland.
[9] Gondara moved to New Mexico after being selected as an associate dean of trades, advanced technologies and sustainability, business, and professional studies and education at Santa Fe Community College.
[8] In April 1997, Gondara wrote an opinion piece, published in The Billings Gazette, that opposed parental notification in cases of abortion, calling it "punitive control of our young women's sexual activity.
"[10] Supportive of LGBT rights, she participated in a 2005 counter protest against the Westboro Baptist Church at Southridge High School over a production of the play The Laramie Project.