The Cultivating Indigenous Research Communities for Leadership in Education and STEM (CIRCLES) Alliance brings together partners from six Western States–Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming–to address the underrepresentation of Native American students within STEM disciplines and the STEM workforce. The CIRCLES Alliance is funded by the National Science Foundation’s Inclusion Across the Nation of Communities of Learners of Underrepresented Discoverers in Engineering and Science (INCLUDES) program.