The Long Road Home – An MSU-based program helps a physician come home – Mountains & Minds

LeeAnna Muzquiz dreamed of returning to her Flathead Nation as a doctor. An acclaimed regional medical program helped make it possible.

Even before LeeAnna Muzquiz became Montana State University’s first minority recruiter in 1994, she promised her new boss that she would quit.

By all accounts, Muzquiz did a stellar job traveling to all seven Indian reservations in Montana and crossing the country from Alaska to Georgia, recruiting minority students to MSU. But instilled with a strong sense of community, she believed that Native Americans with education and skills should return home to help their people, so she promised MSU Director of Admissions Ronda Russell that she would eventually leave her job to attend medical school. Her dream was to become a physician on the Flathead Indian Reservation where she grew up.

by Evelyn Boswell

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