Russell Begaye

President, Navajo Nation

Russell Begaye is the President of the Navajo Nation, the largest Native American reservation in the United States. He was elected to the Navajo Nation Council in 2011 before winning the presidency in 2015. Previously, he retired from a 30-year career as a missionary, church planter and foreign language outreach director with the North American Mission Board, and had served as a preacher while earning a master of divinity degree from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.