EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP
Joy Harjo
Mvskoke
Board Chair
U.S. Poet Laureate, Author, Musician
Valorie Johnson
Seneca-Cayuga-Eastern Cherokee
Board Vice-Chair
Consultant and former Program Officer, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Raymond Foxworth
Navajo Nation
Board Treasurer
Vice President – Grantmaking, Development & Communications, First Nations Development Institute
Adrian Wall
Jemez Pueblo
Board Secretary
Sculptor & Musician
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Amy Hānaiali'i Gilliom
Native Hawaiian/Ojibwe
Singer & Songwriter
Kamani Kuala’au
Native Hawaiian
Finance Committee Chair
Senior Vice President, Atalanta Sosnoff Capital
Elise Paschen
Osage Nation
Poet, editor, professor, and co-founder of Poetry in Motion
Camilla Rockefeller
Chair, David Rockefeller Fund
Rob Sassor
Vice President, Metropolitan Group
Nadia Sethi
Ninilchik Tribe-Alutiiq
Program Director and Art Historian, The CIRI Foundation
S. R. Tommie
Seminole Tribe of Florida
Founder and President, Redline Media Group
NATIONAL LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
Mona Abadir
Council Chair
Chief Executive Officer, Engaging the Senses Foundation
John Haworth
Cherokee
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
Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
Director of Creative Strategies, The Opportunity Agenda
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Cree
Musician, Artist, Educator
Denise Turner Walsh
Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians
Attorney General, Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians