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
Kamani Kuala’au
Finance Committee Chair
Senior Vice President, Atalanta Sosnoff Capital
Elise Paschen
Poet, editor, professor, and co-founder of Poetry in Motion
Camilla Rockefeller
David Rockefeller Fund Board Member
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
Denise Turner Walsh
Attorney General, Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians