
Steering Committee


Hunter Bachrach
Student Fellow
Megan Bang (Ojibwe and Italian)
Professor, School of Education and Social Policy, Director, CNAIR, One Book Faculty Co-Chair

Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy (Lumbee)
Dean, Carlos Montezuma, Professor of Education and Social Policy; One Book Faculty Co-Chair

Forrest Bruce (Ojibwe)
Doctoral Student in Learning Sciences (SESP’17), Alumnus

Vivian Bui
Student Fellow

Annalise Buth
Clinical Assistant Professor of Law, Pritzker

Jeannette Colyvas
Associate Professor, Joint PhD Program in Computer Science and Learning Sciences, Associate Professor and Executive Board Member, Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), Associate Professor (by courtesy), Department of Sociology & MORS, Kellogg School of Management, Faculty Affiliate, Institute for Policy Research

Lisa Corrin
Senior Lecturer, Ellen Philips Katz Director, Block Museum of Art

Nancy Cunniff
Director, One Book One Northwestern
Christopher Davidson
Campus & Community Engagement Librarian; User Experience Department of the NU Library
Jennifer Dunn
Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering and (by courtesy) Mechanical Engineering, Director, Center for Engineering Sustainability and Resilience, Associate Director, Northwestern-Argonne Institute of Science and Engineering

Aaron Golding (Seneca Nation)
Associate Director for Multicultural Student Affairs

Jasmine Gurneau (Oneida/Menominee)
Director of Native American and Indigenous Affairs in the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion

Sam Habashy
Student Fellow

Joan Johnson
Director for Faculty, Office of the Provost

Naomi Kales
Student Fellow
Maj Kargbo
Director of IDEA Education & Training, Office of Institutional Diversity & Inclusion
Jennifer Keys
Senior Director, Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching, Professor of Practice in Sociology

Joseph Lattal
Associate Director of Student Organizations and Activities, Campus Life

James Lee
Student Fellow
Cindy Lima
One Book Graduate Assistant

Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan
George R.R. Martin Chair in Storytelling; Alumna; Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications
Linda Luk
Assistant Director of Co-Curricular Learning and Recreation, Norris University Center

Michaela Marchi (Isleta Pueblo/Filipina/Italian)
Program Assistant, CNAIR
Kimberly Mills (Blackfoot)
Assistant Director, Arts & Programs; Norris University Center
Catherine Ndovu
Student Fellow
Tanya Palmer
Assistant Dean & Executive Artistic Director, Administration; School of Communication
Mary Patillo
Harold Washington Professor of Sociology and Chair, Department of Black Studies

Gregory Phillips II
Associate Professor of Medical Social Sciences and Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)

Paula Pretlow (Muscogee (Creek))
Board of Trustees, Northwestern University, Investment Executive

Baron Reed
Professor, Department of Philosophy

Gina Roxas (Prairie Band Potawatomi)
Executive Director, Trickster Cultural Center

Pamala Silas (Menominee/Oneida)
Associate Director, Outreach & Engagement, Center for Native American and Indigenous Research, Northwestern University, Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences

Melisa Stephen
Program Manager, Women's Center

Kimberly R. Marion Suiseeya
Associate Professor, Faculty Affiliate Center for Native American and Indigenous Research; Faculty Fellow Buffett Institute for Global Affairs

Faith Summersett Williams
Research Assistant Professor in Pediatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine; Faculty Fellow at Buffett

Eli Suzukovich III (Little Shell Band of Chippewa-Cree/Krajina Serb)
Assistant Professor of Instruction, Program in Environmental Policy and Culture, Director of Cultural Preservation and Compliance, Office for Research Faculty Affiliate, Center for Native American Indigenous Research

Kim Vigue (Menominee/Oneida)
Executive Director, Mitchell Museum
Raphael Wahwassuck (Prairie Band Potawatomi)
Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
Kelly Wisecup
Arthur E. Andersen Teaching and Research Professor, Professor of English

Debra Yepa-Pappan (Jemez Pueblo/Korean)
Center for Native Futures
Clifford Zimmerman
Professor of Practice, Pritzker School of Law

Carol Zsolnay
Board Member, The Alumnae of Northwestern University