#  Honoring Nations Board of Governors 

 



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##  Active Board Members 

 



  [### Regis Pecos

 ](/people/regis-pecos)Cochiti Pueblo

Chairman of Honoring Nations Board of Governors

 Co-Founder and Co-Director, Santa Fe Indian School Leadership Institute

 

 

 

   [### Melanie Bahnke

 ](/people/melanie-bahnke)Native Village of Savoonga

CEO of Kawerak, Inc.

 

 

 

   [### Amanda Cobb-Greetham

 ](/people/amanda-cobb-greetham)Chickasaw

Distinguished Professor in Native Southern Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

 

 

 

   [### Philip J. Deloria

 ](/people/philip-j-deloria)Standing Rock Sioux

Leverett Saltonstall Professor of History, Harvard University

 

 

 

   [### Karen Diver

 ](/people/karen-diver)Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

Senior Advisor to the President for Native American Affairs

University of Minnesota

 

 

 

   [### Diane Enos

 ](/people/diane-enos)Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community

Director, Family Advocacy Center of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community

 

 

 

   [### Brian C. McK. Henderson

 ](/people/brian-c-mck-henderson)Apache

Founding Partner, Henderson International Advisors, LLC

 

 

 

   [### Andrew Lee

 ](/people/andrew-lee)Seneca

Consultant

 

 

 

   [### Michael Lipsky

 ](/people/michael-lipsky)Former Professor of Political Science, M.I.T.

Former Senior Program Officer, The Ford Foundation

 

 

 

   [### Oren Lyons

 ](/people/oren-lyons)Onondaga Indian Nation

Chief and Faithkeeper

Chairman of Board of Governors (Emeritus) 

 

 

 

   [### Wilson Pipestem

 ](/people/wilson-pipestem)Otoe-Missouria/Osage

Managing Partner, Co-Founder, Ieton Consulting

 

 

 

   [### Angela Riley

 ](/people/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

 ](/people/sherry-salway-black)Oglala Lakota

Consultant and Board Member, First Peoples Fund and Johnson Scholarship Foundation

 

 

 

   [### Duane Champagne

 ](/people/duane-champagne)Turtle Mountain Chippewa

Professor Emeritus, Native Nations Law and Policy Center Sociology Department, UCLA

 

 

 

   [### Heather Kendall-Miller

 ](/people/heather-kendall-miller)Athabaskan

 

 

 

   [### Mark Macarro

 ](/people/mark-macarro)Pechanga Band of Luiseño Mission Indians

Chairman, Pechanga Band of Luiseno Mission Indians

 

 

 

   [### Elsie M. Meeks

 ](/people/elsie-m-meeks)Oglala Lakota

South Dakota Rural Development State Director

USDA

 

 

 

   [### Alfreda Mitre

 ](/people/alfreda-mitre)Paiute

 

 

 

   [### Susan M. Williams

 ](/people/susan-m-williams)Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota

Partner, Williams and Works, PA

 

 

 

  

 

 

 

 

##  In Memoriam 

 



  [### JoAnn K. Chase

 ](/people/joann-k-chase)Mandan

Director, American Indian Environmental Office

US EPA

 

 

 

   [### Nancy Fields O'Connor

 ](/people/nancy-fields-oconnor)Crow

 

 

 

   [### David M. Gipp

 ](/people/david-m-gipp)Standing Rock Sioux

President of DM Gipp & Associates LLC and Chancellor of the United Tribes Technical College, Emeritus

 

 

 

   [### Peterson Zah

 ](/people/peterson-zah)Navajo

Founder, Restore Harmony