Sven Haakanson
Old Harbor Alutiiq
Board Chair
Curator of Native American Anthropology,Burke Museum
Valorie Johnson
Seneca-Cayuga-Eastern Cherokee
Board Vice-Chair
Consultant and former Program Officer,W.K. Kellogg Foundation
Barron M. Tenny
Board Treasurer & Finance Committee Chair
Former Executive Vice President, Secretary & General Counsel,Ford Foundation
Adrian Wall
Jemez Pueblo
Board Secretary
Sculptor & Musician
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Amy Hānaiali'i Gilliom
Native Hawaiian/Ojibwe
Singer & Songwriter
Joy Harjo
Mvskoke Nation
Poet, Author, Musician and Professor of English, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Susan Jenkins
Choctaw
Retired; Founding Executive Director,Cherokee Preservation Foundation
Brian Patterson
Oneida
Former President,United South & Eastern Tribes (USET)
Camilla Rockefeller
Chair,David Rockefeller Fund
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
Lisa Freeman
Author & Educator, Co-CEO of the Hawaii Five-O films, merchandising companies, and other works created by Leonard Freeman
John Haworth
Cherokee
Director,Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian-NY
Heather B. Henson
Jemez Pueblo
Founder and Creative Director, IBEX Puppetry and Director,The Jim Henson Legacy
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
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