Our Staff

Jessica Juarez-Wagner (Yaqui Descendent) Program Manager

Shannon Kopelva (Paiute/Hopi/Hualapai) Interim Co-Executive Director

Rebecca Miles (Nez Perce) Interim Co-Executive Director

Our Board of Directors

President Jordann Lankford (Gros Ventre/Little Shell)

Vice President Meredith Parker (Makah)

Secretary Amber Schulz-Oliver (Celilo/Yakama)

Treasurer Celina Phair (Lummi Nation)

Compliance Officer Brie Coyle Jones (Quileute Desc.)

Member Antone Minthorn (Umatilla)

Member Dustin Monroe (Assiniboine/Blackfeet)

Member Jennifer S. Vickers (Nipmuc)

Member Tai Simpson (Nimiipuu, Black) 

Volunteers

Adrian Luethold (Spokane)
Andrea Alexander (Makah)
Angel Sobotta (Nez Perce)
Anthony Rascon (Makah)
Aranesa Turner Aspen Smith (Salish)
Aurolyn Stwyer (Warm Springs-Wasco)
Brenda Billy (Cayuse / Yakama)
Brenda Lowe (Japanese)
Bridget Ray (Turtle Mountain Chippewa)
Burdette Birdinground (Apsaalooke)
Caleb Dunlap (Ojibwe)
Cara Hash Cindy Pederson (Tlingit / Haida)
Crystal Florez (White Earth Ojibwe)
Cody Shimazu Dallas Pinkham (Yakama)
Dawn Morrison Danson Coin (Thompson Coldwater Band / Hopi)
Edna Bellfleur Fern Renville (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate)
Greg Urban Harold Balderson (Makah)
Ivette Bayo Urban (Cuban)
James La Roche (Lakota)
Jared Dunlap (Ojibwe)
Jeff Smith (Makah)
Jeremiah George (Squaxin Island)
Jesse WalkingChild (Chippewa Cree / Blackfoot)
Joe Seymour (Squaxin Island / Acoma Pueblo)
Johnny Buck (Wanapum / Yakama)
Jonathan J. Arakawa Jonnica Royal (Duwamish / Quinault / Chinook)
Josephine Lee ( Ho-Chunk)
Kim Kummer (Makah)
Kyle Slaney (Makah)
Laura Grabhorn (Tlingit / Haida)
Leesa Wright (Puyallup)
Lisa Leuthold (Makah)
Marc Taylor (Lummi)
Maria Givens (Coeur d’Alene)
Marylin Bard (Duwamish / Quinault)
Melissa Ramirez UW First Nations
Michael Murner (Makah)
Mike Edwards (Muckleshoot)
Miranda Belarde-Lewis (Tlingit / Zuni Pueblo)
Miriam Zmiewski-Angelova Modesta Minthorn (Umatilla)
Nahaan (Tlingit / Inupiaq / Paiute)
Nina OldCoyote (Lummi)
Nora Trahant (Diné)
Pamela Bryan (Diné)
Patricia Allen (Tlingit)
Perri McDaniel (Grand Ronde)
Philip Hillaire (Lummi)
Ray Ishii
Renco Leake
Roger Fernandes (Lower Elwha Klallam)
Samuel Barr (Samish)
Sandy Littletree Sandy Redsteer (Diné)
Sarah Kelly (Anishinaabeg)
Shelley McKosato-Haupt (Sac & Fox Nation of Oklahoma)
Skala Leake Steven Oliver (Lummi / Duwamish)
Susan Welsh (Diné / Mohave / Chemehuevi) Tracy Rector (Seminole)
Twila Begay (Diné) Vincent Chargualaf (Suquamish)
Valerie Switzler (Warm Springs)
Walter Pacheco (Muckleshoot)
Yin Yu Zeke Spier

And Many More