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Traci L. Morris, PhD
Executive Director & Research Professor
Dr. Traci Morris is the Executive Director of the American Indian Policy Institute (AIPI) and a Research…
Brooke Curleyhair
Assistant Director, Indigenous Leadership Academy
Brooke (Diné) is the assistant director of the Indigenous Leadership Academy at the American Indian Policy Institute. With experience in K-12…
JoAnn di Filippo, PhD
Associate Director
Dr. di Filippo currently serves as the Associate Director for AIPI. During the past 20 years, di Filippo has worked as a business and…
Emile Eich
Senior Data Analyst
Emile Eich (Diné) serves as the Senior Data Analyst at the American Indian Policy
Institute, where she focuses on data analytics and…
Kelcie Franklin
Project Coordinator, Indigenous Leadership Academy
Kelcie (Diné) is the Project Coordinator for the Indigenous Leadership Academy at American Indian Policy Institute. She received her Bachelor of…
Morgan Gray
Senior Research & Policy Analyst
Morgan Gray (Chickasaw Nation) serves as the Senior Research & Policy Analyst at the American Indian Policy Institute, where she leads AIPI’s…
Kennedy Satterfield
Communication and Digital Strategy Specialist
Kennedy Satterfield (Choctaw Nation) is a strategic communicator, digital strategist, and policy advocate whose work sits at the intersection of…
Advisory Board
Stephen Roe Lewis
Governor of the Gila River Indian Community of Arizona
Stephen Roe Lewis was raised in Sacaton, “Gu-u-Ki”, on the Gila River Indian Community. His father is the late Rodney Lewis and mother Willardene Lewis. Mr. Lewis has a son, Daniel currently…
Larry Wright Jr.
Executive Director for the National Congress of American Indians
Larry Wright Jr. is the Executive Director for the National Congress of American Indians. He priorly served as the Director of Leadership Engagement for NCAI. He served as Tribal Chairman of the…
Sarah EchoHawk
President, American Indian Science and Engineering Society
Sarah EchoHawk, a citizen of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, has been working on behalf of Indigenous people for more than 25 years. She has led AISES, an organization dedicated to Advancing…
Maria Dadgar
Executive Director, Inter Tribal Council of Arizona
Maria Dadgar is an enrolled member of the Piscataway (Pi-Scat-Away) Tribe of Accokeek (Ack-Ko-Keek), Maryland. Maria has worked in the fields of Higher Education, Non-Profit Executive Management…
Dawson Her Many Horses
Head of Native American Banking and Managing Director, Wells Fargo
Dawson Her Many Horses is a managing director at Wells Fargo, which is the leading provider of capital and financial services to the Native American and Alaska Native markets. Wells Fargo has…
Dallin Maybee
Assistant Director of Development, Native American Rights Fund (NARF)
Dallin Maybee is Seneca and enrolled Northern Arapaho. Raised on the Cattaraugus territory of the Seneca Nation of Indians in Western New York, he is an accomplished artist, public speaker,…
Felix McGowan
Director of AMERIND Critical Infrastructure
Mr. McGowan is an enrolled tribal member with the Little Shell Band of Chippewas in Montana and was raised in Poplar Montana, the Tribal headquarters of the Fort Peck Tribe. He has served in many…
Jacob Moore
Vice President, Office of University Affairs
Jacob Moore is responsible for the intergovernmental affairs between ASU and tribal nations and communities. Previously, Jacob Moore was managing partner for Generation Seven Strategic Partners,…
Karen Mossberger
Professor Emerita, School of Public Affairs, Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions, Arizona State University
Karen Mossberger is Professor Emerita in the School of Public Affairs in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions at Arizona State University. She is Director Emerita of the…
Mac Quig
Director of Cloud and AI Platforms at Microsoft
Mac Quig is the Director of Cloud and AI Platforms at Microsoft, where he advises Tribal Nations, Alaskan Native Corporations, Federal healthcare organizations, and enterprise customers on cloud,…
Kate Rosier
Assistant Dean, Community Engagement + Executive Director of Indian Legal Program, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, Arizona State University
Kate Rosier (Comanche) serves as the Assistant Dean for Community Engagement and the Executive Director of the Indian Legal Program (ILP) at Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of…
Chris Shilling
Under Secretary | Technology & Innovation, The Chickasaw Nation
Chris serves as the Chickasaw Nation’s Under Secretary of Technology and Innovation. He manages the technology and data science support teams in service to the Nation’s hospitality, health care…
Sherry Treppa
President of Habemco and former Chairperson
Sherry Treppa is the former Chairperson of the Habematolel Pomo of Upper Lake, a federally recognized Indian Nation in Upper Lake, California, serving as an elected official from…
Past Advisory Board
- Jason Coochwytewa, Chief Executive Officer, Urias Communications (Hopi/Isleta)
- John Tippeconnic, Retired, former Director American Indian Studies Program (Comanche Tribe of Oklahoma)
- Rebecca Tsosie, Regents’ Professor of Law; Special Advisor to the Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, University of Arizona, Tucson. (Pascua Yaqui)
- Nathan Pryor, Government Relations Manager, Maricopa Association of Governments (Navajo Nation)
- Jamie Fullmer, Bluestone Strategy Group (Yavapai-Apache Nation)
- Marcelino Flores, Pasqua Yaqui Tribe
- Jacqueline Pata, Executive Director, National Congress of American Indians (Tlingit Tribe)
- Roy Boney, Director, Language Programs at Cherokee Nation (Cherokee Nation)
- Kim Scott, Founder & Executive Director, Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology and Founder of Compugirls.org
- Ed Brown Retired/Emeritus, former Executive Director of ASU AIPI and ASU AIS (Pascua Yaqui/Tohono O’odham)
- Geoffrey Blackwell Former advisor, former General Counsel and Chief of Staff; National Congress of American Indians (Chickasaw, Choctaw, Omaha, and Muscogee Creek)
- Dr. Angela Gonzales, Professor and Director of American Indian Studies and Interim Director of the Center for Indian Education at Arizona State University (Hopi Tribe from the Village of Shungopavi)
- Sascha Meinrath, Palmer Chair in Telecommunications at Penn State and director of X-Lab
- Matthew R. Rantanen, Director of Technology, Southern California Tribal Chairmen's Association (SCTCA); Director of the Tribal Digital Village (TDVNet) Network/Initiative (Cree Indian)
- Denise E. Bates, Dean, University College, Tufts University