IEI Board of Directors

  • Evelyn Conley - Chair

  • United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees
  • Norman, Oklahoma
  • Independent Consultant
  • Nancy C. Maryboy, Ph.D. - President and Founder, Executive Director

  • Cherokee/Navajo
  • Bluff, Utah
  • Northern Arizona University
  • Wohali Productions, Inc.
  • David Begay, Ph.D. - Vice President and Founder

  • Navajo
  • Ganado, Arizona
  • Dine Hatathli Medicine Men Association, Navajo Nation
  • Dr. Polly O. Walker - Vice Chair

  • Cherokee
  • Mt. Gravatt, QLD
  • Australia
  • University of Queensland, Australia
  • VerlieAnn Leimomi Malina-Wright, Ed.D.

  • Native Hawaiian
  • Honolulu, Oahu, HI
  • Vice Principal of Kula Kaiapuni O Anuenue-
  • Hawaiian Immersion School
  • President, National Indian Education Association
  • Julie D. Moss

  • United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee
  • Tahlequah, OK
  • Tribal Management, Grant Writer
  • Muskogee (Creek) Nation
  • Lloyd B. Pinkham, Ph.D.

  • Yakama Nation
  • Wapato, WA
  • Science Teacher K-6, Union Gap Elementary School, Union Gap, WA
  • Independent Traditional Consultant
  • Claire U'ilani Pruet

  • Native Hawaiian
  • Honolulu, Oahu, HI
  • Educator, Student Resource Development
  • Christopher Teren - Technical Specialist

  • Cherokee/Navajo
  • Friday Harbor, WA
  • President, Teren Solutions

 

IEI Elders' Circle

  • Henrietta Mann (Grandmother Henri), Cheyenne

  • Special Advisor to the President, Office of the President
  • Montana State University
  • PO Box 172420
  • Bozeman, MT 59717-2420
  • 406-994-7431
  • * "Prayers and Family Take Native Leader Where No One Else Has Gone Before," Mountains and Minds On-Line Magazine, 4-2-07, Montana State University.
  • Bill Jordan, Navajo

  • Navajo Medicine Man
  • Lukachukai, AZ
  • Rose Von Thater-Braan, Cherokee-Tuscarora

  • Silver Buffalo Consulting
  • Director, Native Science Academy
  • 484 Beloit Avenue
  • Kensington, CA 94708
  • 510-524-3903