Sven Haakanson
Old Harbor Alutiiq
Board Chair
Curator of Native American Anthropology at the Burke Museum
Valorie Johnson
Seneca-Cayuga-Eastern Cherokee
Board Vice-Chair
Consultant and former Program Officer at the W. K. Kellogg Foundation
Barron M. Tenny
Board Treasurer and Finance Committee Chair
Former Executive Vice President, Secretary and General Counsel of the Ford Foundation
Adrian Wall
Jemez Pueblo
Board Secretary
Sculptor and Musician
Cheryl Andrews-Maltais
Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head-Aquinnah
Governance Committee Chair
Chairwoman of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head/Aquinnah
Dudley Cocke
Artistic Director of the Roadside Theater; and Appalshop
Amy Hānaiali'i Gilliom
Native Hawaiian/Ojibwe
Singer and Songwriter
Brian Patterson
Oneida
Former President of United South & Eastern Tribes (USET)
S. R. Tommie
Seminole Tribe of Florida
Founder and President of Redline Media Group
Susan Jenkins
Choctaw
Retired; Founding Executive Director, Cherokee Preservation Foundation
Joy Harjo
Mvskoke Nation
Poet, Author, Musician and Professor of English at University of Tennessee, Knoxville
David R. Hatch (1953-2016) in memoriam
Siletz
Board Secretary
Council Member, Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians; Siletz Tribal Arts and Heritage Society Chairman
National Leadership Council
Mona Abadir
Council Chair
Chief Executive Officer, Engaging the Senses Foundation
John Haworth
Cherokee
Director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian-NY
Lisa Freeman
Author & Educator, Co-CEO of the Hawaii Five-O films, merchandising companies, and other works created by Leonard Freeman
Denise Turner Walsh
Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians
Attorney General of the Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Cree
Musician, Artist, Educator
Elizabeth Theobald Richards
Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
Director of Creative Strategies, The Opportunity Agenda
Susan Freeman Mann
Woman’s Health/Breast Cancer Advocate, Co-CEO of the Hawaii Five-O films, merchandising companies, and other works created by Leonard Freeman
Heather B. Henson
Founder and Creative Director, IBEX Puppetry and Director, The Jim Henson Legacy