"Reader To Reader's Navajo Mentoring program is groundbreaking."

--The Navajo Times

This special program links Navajo high school students with Amherst College student reading mentors to read books and discuss them online in a specially designed forum.

In addition, the reading mentors travel to the Navajo reservation in order to work one to one with the students and to learn firsthand about Navajo life and culture.

The Navajo students then spend a week at Amherst College learning about the college experience about a wide variety of career options first hand from scientists, doctors, lawyers, writers and artists. The goal of the trip is to motivate them to attend college; to give them an understanding of the college application process; and to help them see that academic achievement in high school is the key to success in college.

"This is the first program that ever got our students to read. It has been absolutely amazing."

—Carla Clauschee, librarian
Navajo Pine High School
Navajo, New Mexico