BOARD OF DIRECTORS

EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP

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Betsy Richards

Cherokee Nation

Board Chair
Executive Director of the Abbe Museum & Senior Partner with Wabanaki Nations

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Valorie Johnson

Seneca-Cayuga-Eastern Cherokee

Board Vice-Chair 
Consultant and former Program Officer, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

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Raymond Foxworth

Navajo Nation

Board Treasurer 
Program Director for Indigenous Knowledge Initiative
Henry Luce Foundation

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Nadia Sethi

NINILCHIK TRIBE-ALUTIIQ

Board Secretary
Program Director and Art Historian, The CIRI Foundation

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Kamani Kuala’au

Native Hawaiian

Finance Committee Chair
Senior Vice President, Atalanta Sosnoff Capital

Elise Paschen

Osage Nation

Poet, editor, professor, and co-founder of Poetry in Motion

Camilla Rockefeller

David Rockefeller Fund Board Member

Rob Sassor

Principal, Water’s Edge Strategy

Charlene Teters

Spokane Nation

Artist, Professor Emeritus, Institute of American Indian Arts

S. R. Tommie

Seminole Tribe of Florida

Founder and President, Redline Media Group

Brian D. Vallo

Pueblo of Acoma

Consultant

America Meredith

Cherokee Nation

Publishing editor of First American Art Magazine

Mona Abadir

Denise Turner Walsh

Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians

Attorney General, Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians

HONORARY BOARD MEMBER

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Joy Harjo

Mvskoke

Immediate Past Board Chair
U.S. Poet Laureate, Author, Musician

Joy Harjo is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation. She served three terms as the 23rd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2019-2022 and is winner of Yale’s 2023 Bollingen Prize for American Poetry.