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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