Nick Ciletti is a seven-time Emmy award-winning journalist who joined ABC15 in July 2014. Currently, you can catch Nick every weekday anchoring ABC15 Mornings from 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m.
Breaking barriers is something two women in the Navajo Nation know plenty about; for the first time in Navajo Nation history, there is a female vice president and female speaker of the council. The two women are hoping to inspire the next generation of female leaders of the Navajo Nation and beyond.
“My grandfather always told me, 'one day you will be a leader, and one day you will speak for us and this is why we want you to focus, this is why we want you to be disciplined,'” said Speaker Curley. “My grandfather said, ‘OK, if you're a girl, you should still be able to chop wood, too. Just like the boys.’”
“There's always opposition within my region of the Navajo Nation,” Speaker Curley said. “It’s very conservative. And being a traditionalist — coming from grandfathers who were medicine men — they encouraged me to speak and to talk and make tough decisions at a very young age.”
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