Native American & Indigenous Peoples Steering Group
Purpose:
To help support and ensure the success of Native American and Indigenous diversity, equity and inclusion efforts across schools and units at the University
Goals:
- To enhance communication and collaboration across schools and units;
- To share best practices aimed at advancing the university's Native American Outreach and Inclusion Task Force (NAOITF) recommendations
- To support staff who have explicit responsibility for addressing issues of Native American and Indigenous diversity, equity and inclusion within schools and units
Group Members
- Jasmine Gurneau (Chair), (Oneida/Menominee) Director for Native American and Indigenous Affairs, Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion
- Bobbie Benavidez, Graduate Student, Department of Anthropology
- Lisa Bernal, (Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota) Program Coordinator, Chicago Public Schools American Indian Education Program
- Janet Dees, Steven and Lisa Munster Tananbaum, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at The Block Museum of Art
- Aaron Golding, (Seneca) Associate Director, Multicultural Students Affairs
- Sean Harte (Menominee), Weinberg '87
- Doug Kiel, PhD (Oneida), Assistant Professor, Department of History, Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
- Megan Bang, PhD (Ojibwe/Italian Descent), Professor, School of Education and Social Policy; Director, Center for Native American and Indigenous Research
- Niyo Moraza-Keeswood (Diné/ Chichimeca), Senior Assistant Director, Undergraduate Admission
- Athena GoingSnake (Cherokee), Undergraduate Student, WCAS '25
- Carrie Stallings (Apache-Mescalero), Graduate Student, Department of Sociology
- Pamala Silas (Menominee, Oneida), Associate Director, Center for Native American and Indigenous Research
- Eli Suzukovich, PhD (Little Shell Band of Chippewa-Cree), Assistant Professor of Instruction, Weinberg School of Arts and Sciences
- Isabella Twocrow (Oglala Lakota/Ho-Chunk Nation), Undergraduate Student, SESP '23
- Dorene P. Wiese, PhD (Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, Mississippi Band, White Earth Reservation Enrolled), President, American Indian Association of Illinois