EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

Joy Harjo
Board Chair
U.S. Poet Laureate, Author, Musician

Valorie Johnson
Board Vice-Chair
Consultant and former Program Officer, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

Raymond Foxworth
Board Treasurer
Vice President – Grantmaking, Development & Communications, First Nations Development Institute

Nadia Sethi
Board Secretary
Program Director and Art Historian, The CIRI Foundation
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Amy Hānaiali'i Gilliom
Singer & Songwriter
Kamani Kuala’au
Finance Committee Chair
Senior Vice President, Atalanta Sosnoff Capital
Elise Paschen
Poet, editor, professor, and co-founder of Poetry in Motion
Brenda Pipestem
Associate Justice on the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Supreme Court
Camilla Rockefeller
Rob Sassor
Principal, Water’s Edge Strategy
Charlene Teters
Artist, Professor Emeritus, Institute of American Indian Arts
S. R. Tommie
Founder and President, Redline Media Group
Brian D. Vallo
Consultant
NATIONAL LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
Mona Abadir
Council Chair
Chief Executive Officer, Engaging the Senses Foundation
John Haworth
Director,Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian-NY
Heather B. Henson
Founder and Creative Director, IBEX Puppetry and Director, The Jim Henson Legacy
Elizabeth Theobald Richards
Director of Creative Strategies, The Opportunity Agenda
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Musician, Artist, Educator
Denise Turner Walsh
Attorney General, Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians