Cora Tso

Cora Tso is a Senior Research Fellow at Arizona State University’s Kyl Center for Water Policy. She researches, analyzes, and develops recommendations on Arizona Tribal water policy, focusing on Tribal Nations’ interests, needs, and opportunities in regulatory and legislative processes. She collaborates with Tribal leadership, government agencies, and stakeholders through the Arizona Water Innovation Initiative, fostering lasting relationships between the Kyl Center and the Tribal water policy and legal community.

Previously, Tso worked with governmental, private, and nonprofit organizations on Indian law, water law, and environmental policy. An enrolled member of the Navajo Nation, she is of the Reed People clan and born for the Black Streaked Wood clan. Her maternal grandparents are of the Bitterwater clan, and her paternal grandparents are of the Red House clan. Born and raised on the Navajo reservation, she is originally from Shonto, Arizona. Tso earned her Juris Doctor with a Certificate in Indian Law from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU and a Bachelor of Science in Political Science with a minor in American Indian Studies from Barrett, The Honors College at ASU.