Honoring Nations Board of Governors
Active Board Members
Regis Pecos
Cochiti Pueblo
Chairman of Honoring Nations Board of Governors
Co-Founder and Co-Director, Santa Fe Indian School Leadership Institute
Melanie Bahnke
Native Village of Savoonga
CEO of Kawerak, Inc.
Amanda Cobb-Greetham
Chickasaw
Distinguished Professor in Native Southern Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Philip J. Deloria
Standing Rock Sioux
Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University
Karen Diver
Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
Senior Advisor to the President for Native American Affairs
University of Minnesota
Diane Enos
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
Director, Family Advocacy Center of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
Brian C. McK. Henderson
Apache
Founding Partner, Henderson International Advisors, LLC
Andrew Lee
Seneca
Consultant
Michael Lipsky
Former Professor of Political Science, M.I.T.
Former Senior Program Officer, The Ford Foundation
Oren Lyons
Onondaga Indian Nation
Chief and Faithkeeper
Chairman of Board of Governors (Emeritus)
Wilson Pipestem
Otoe-Missouria/Osage
Managing Partner, Co-Founder, Ieton Consulting
Angela Riley
Citizen Potawatomi
Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law
Director of UCLA's J.D./M.A. Joint Degree Program in Law and American Indian Studies
Honorary Board Members
Sherry Salway Black
Oglala Lakota
Consultant and Board Member, First Peoples Fund and Johnson Scholarship Foundation
Duane Champagne
Turtle Mountain Chippewa
Professor Emeritus, Native Nations Law and Policy Center Sociology Department, UCLA
Heather Kendall-Miller
Athabaskan
Mark Macarro
Pechanga Band of Luiseño Mission Indians
Chairman, Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians
Elsie M. Meeks
Oglala Lakota
South Dakota Rural Development State Director
USDA
Alfreda Mitre
Paiute
Susan M. Williams
Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota
Partner, Williams and Works, PA
In Memoriam
JoAnn K. Chase
Mandan
Director, American Indian Environmental Office
US EPA
David M. Gipp
Standing Rock Sioux
President of DM Gipp & Associates LLC and Chancellor of the United Tribes Technical College, Emeritus
Peterson Zah
Navajo
Founder, Restore Harmony