EDUCATION Current Graduate Student, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Master of Public Affairs 2016, University of Minnesota Duluth, Bachelor’s of Fine Arts Degree 1999, Mesabi College, Associate of Arts Degree 1993, Perpich Center for the Arts, alumna
AWARDS AND HONORS 2016, Bush Leadership Fellowship 2012, Northland NewsCenter Women in Leadership Award
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE President & CEO, Tiwahe Foundation Executive Director & Founder, Rural American Indigenous Leadership Program Coordinator & Lead Trainer, Wellstone Action Rural Leadership Organizer, The White House Project Guardian ad Litem, State of Minnesota 6th Judicial District Youth Crisis & Range YLSI, Lutheran Social Services Regional Field Supervisor, United States Census Bureau Youth Organizer and Program Lead, Circling to Seventh Generation Program Program Director and Co-Founder, VISIONS Youth Program
CIVIC ENGAGEMENT 2008-2018, City Councilor, City of Virginia, Minnesota 2009-2018, The Northland Foundation, Board of Trustee’s 2011-2018, Governor’s Appointee Sixth Judicial District Judicial Selection Commission 2015-current, ClearWay of Minnesota, Board of Directors 2017-current, Women’s Foundation of Minnesota, Board of Directors 2018-current, Minnesota Urban Debate League, Advisory Board
ART EXPERIENCE 2015, MNDOT Visual Quality Committee, Highway 53 Bridge Design 2009, 2015, Mural Committee, Virginia, Minnesota 1997, ARC Northland, Visiting Artist with Disability Specialty 1996, Artist in Residency, Virginia High School Indian Education Program 1995, Smithsonian Art Train, Printmaking Instructor
EXHIBITIONS 2017- This is What Democracy Looks Like, solo exhibit, Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN 2016- Community Potluck, Lyric Center for the Arts, Virginia, MN 2016-The Mind’s Eye: Inspired by Shakespeare’s First Folio, Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN 1993- Student Visual Show, Minnesota Center for Arts Education, Golden Valley, MN