AISES Staff

Advancement and Communications

April Armijo
Diné/Acoma Pueblo
Director of Digital Media and Communications
Sarah Brown
Choctaw
Individual Giving Manager
David Cournoyer
Rosebud Sioux
Vice President of Advancement and Communications
Shayna Dix
Individual Membership Manager
Karuna Schwartz
Director of Individual Giving
Trista Vaughn
United Keetoowah Band, Hualapai, and Chickasaw
Digital Engagement Manager
April Yazza
Diné/Zuni
Communications Officer

Business Development

Hope Archibeque
Chicana
Business Development Officer
Jodi DiLascio
Business Development Representative
Kellie Jewett-Fernandez
Kellie Jewett-Fernandez
Cheyenne River Lakota
Vice President of Business Development
Candace McDonough
Candace McDonough
Senior Development Officer
Alicia Mitchell
Cherokee Nation
Director of Tribal and Government Relations
Kari Rasmussen
Associate Director of Grant and Program Development
Brianna Starks
Business Development Manager

Engagement and Advocacy

Kaitlan Lyons
Ojibwe/Anishinaabe
Engagement Officer
Lisa Paz
Pawnee/Comanche
Managing Director of Engagement and Advocacy
Laura Vicenti
Cherokee Nation
Engagement and Advocacy Manager

Executive and Operations

Sarah EchoHawk
Pawnee
President
Christopher Hansen
Anishinaabe/White Earth Nation
Operations Officer
Amy Weinstein
Senior Vice President

Finance, Accounting & Human Resources

Oryon Begay
Navajo Nation
Grants Finance Officer
Carla Leigh
Accounting Coordinator
Angela Luecke
Accountant
Angelika Silva
Managing Director, Finance and Human Resources
Jeannine White
Controller
Emily Wiercinski
Administrative and Human Resources Coordinator

Information Technology

Ruben Hernandez
Ruben Hernandez
Sicangu Lakota
Vice President of Information Systems
Elise Lussier
Meskwaki and Red Lake Chippewa
Senior Information Technology Officer
Zachary Vicenti
Zuni/Jemez Pueblo
Director of Information Technology
Phat Vuong
Information Technology Manager

Programs and Research

Brittany Anderson
Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Anishinaabe
Research and Career Support Senior Program Officer
Ruth BlackHawk
Ho-Chunk and Mnicowoju Lakota
Director of Curriculum and Instruction
Marie Casao
Narragansett Tribe
PK-12 Program Officer
Kathy DeerInWater
Dr. Kathy DeerInWater
Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
Vice President of Programs and Research
Shelly Dreadfulwater
Cherokee Nation
Program Officer
Lexi Freeman
Citizen Potawatomi Nation
Grants Compliance Officer
Maddie Habeck
Cherokee Nation and adopted Osage
Research and Career Support Program Officer
Katherine Jacobs
Eastern Band of Cherokee
Curriculum & Instruction Program Officer
Dr. Crystal Lepscier
Little Shell/Menominee/Stockbridge-Munsee
Student Success Program Officer
Danielle Lopez
Latinx
Program Manager
Roseann McDermott
Senior Director of Grant Compliance
Dr. Johnny Poolaw
Delaware, Chiricahua Apache, Comanche, Kiowa
Director of Student Success
Chloe Roughface Smith
Ponca Tribe of Oklahoma/Pawnee
PK-12 Program Officer
Amber Silverhorn-Wolfe
Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, Kiowa, Cheyenne and Arapaho, and Mexican descent
Student Success Program Manager
Dr. Tiffany Smith
Cherokee and Muscogee Nations
Director of Research and Career Support
Stacy Smith Ledford
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
PK-12 Program Officer
Sky Wildcat
Cherokee and Mvskoke
Research and Career Support Senior Program Officer
Tesia Zientek
Citizen Potawatomi Nation
Senior Director of Programs

Special Events

Katherine Cristiano
Katherine Cristiano
Latina
Managing Director of Special Events
Michaela Henry
Navajo
Events Officer

Editorial and Special Projects

Karen English
Winds of Change Magazine
Editor
Kristen Goodfriend
Winds of Change Magazine
Art Director
Meghan Little
Winds of Change Magazine
Managing Editor
Montoya Whiteman
Cheyenne and Arapaho
Managing Director of Editorial and Special Projects

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