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Board of Directors

Officers

Mary Ellen Meredith (Cherokee), Chairperson
Cherokee Heritage Center, Tahlequah, OK

Dr. C. Blue Clark (Muscogee Creek) Vice Chairperson
Director of the Native Law Center, Oklahoma City University, Oklahoma City, OK
Vice President, Muscogee Nation College

Rachel Jackson (Cherokee), Treasurer
University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasha, OK

America Meredith (Cherokee), Corresponding Secretary
Institute of American Indian Arts, Santa Fe, NM

Laura Clark (Muscogee Creek), Recording Secretary
Chickasaw Nation, Arts and Humanities Department

Dr. Lee Hester (Choctaw), Executive Director
American Indian Studies Chair, University of Sciences and
Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasha, OK

Board Members

 

Lona Barrick (Chickasaw)
Administrator, Chickasaw Nation, Ada, OK

Dr. Scott Barton
Chickasaw Clemente course instructor, East Central University, Ada, OK

Dr. Thomas Cowger
American Indian Studies Chair, East Central University, Ada, OK

Elpidia Elena Cruz Diaz (Mayan)
Indigenous culinary specialist and author

Dr. Alejandra Garcia-Quintanilla (Mayan)
Professor of History, University of the Yucatan, Mexico

Alecia Keahbone Gonzales (Kiowa and Kiowa-Apache)
Educator, storyteller, and author, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma, Chickasha, OK

Jay Goombi (Kiowa)
Writer and Clemente course teacher, Anadarko, OK

Linda Hogan (Chickasaw)
author and educator

Utuan Jones-Sparck (Yup'ik/Cup'ik)
Yup'ik/Cup'ik Instructor, University of Alaska, Kuskokwim campus

Wyman Kirk (Cherokee)
Cherokee Humanities Course Instructor and Cherokee Language Instructor, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, OK

Dawnena Squirrel Mackey (Cherokee)
Vice President of the Cherokee Arts and Humanities Council, Tahlequah, OK

Cecilia Martz (Yup'ik/Cup'ik)
Yup'ik/Cup'ik Instructor, University of Alaska, Kuskokwim campus

Miguel Angel May May (Mayan)
Maya Poet, Office of the Popular Cultures of the Yucatan, Mexico

Marcus Milligan (Chickasaw)
Clemente course facillitator, Chickasaw Nation

Simon Ortiz (Acoma)
Poet and educator, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ

Bennie Smith (Cherokee)
Elder, traditionalist, and educator

Librado Silva Galeana (Náhau)
Professor of Náhuatl Literature, National Autonomous University of Mexico

Dra. Ma. Herlinda Suárez Zozoya (Náhau)
Regional Center of Interdisciplinary Investigations
National Autonomous University of Mexico

Steven Woods (Cherokee)
Educator, Tulsa Community College, Tulsa, OK

 

image: Self-Portrait by Howard Meredith "Wasi", 1979

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