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Rebecca Adamson (Cherokee), Founder and President, First Nations Development Institute, 2300 Fall Hill Ave., Suite 412, Fredericksburg, VA 22401, (540) 371-5615. radamson@firstnations.org Adamson was the 2003 National Women's History Month honoree. She has worked directly with grassroots tribal communities and as a national advocate of local tribal issues for over 25 years. She is the founder and president of First Nations Development Institute, a project that enables Native Americans and other indigenous peoples to become economically self-sufficient while maintaining their cultural values. Working alongside the best political and philosophical thinkers in Indian country, Adamson advocates reform and thinks that the key to native people controlling their own lives is economics. A recipient of the 1996 Ms. magazine "Woman of the Year" Award, her organization has advised indigenous people around the world. Frank Blythe (Eastern Band of Cherokee/Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota), Executive Director and Founder, Native American Public Telecommunications, PO Box 83111, Lincoln, NE 68501, (402) 472-3522. fblythe1@unl.edu NAPT is a Native American program development, production and distribution organization for public television and Native radio. NAPT owns and operates a 24 hour radio network on satellite for native radio stations and on the web at www.AIROS.org. NAPT also funds Native American programs for public television through acquisition or contract production. Previous to his work with NAPT, Blythe spent 15 years working in commercial broadcasting in Phoenix, Arizona and Lincoln and Omaha, Nebraska. Blythe holds a B.A. from Arizona State University and has done graduate work at Arizona State University and Harvard University. Will Gray, Jr., (Assiniboine/Gros Ventre), Station Manager, KGVA-FM, Fort Belknap College, PO Box 159, Harlem, MT 59526, (406)-353-4534. willgrayfbc@yahoo.com Will Gray Jr. has been involved in public radio for 5 years all of which
have been at KGVA, the only full-powered Native radio station in the state
of Montana. He started out volunteering which eventually lead to the station
manager position. Gray was a recipient of the Packard
Foundation Tribal Scholar Award in 1996. He has served on local boards
such as the Fort Belknap Tribal Disaster and Emergency Committee, Volunteer
Fire Department Board and Fort Belknap College Construction Board. Joseph Orozco (Hupa/Hopi) Station Manager, KIDE-FM, P.O. Box 1220, Hoopa, CA 95546, (530)625-4245 X305. managerkide@hoopa-nsn.gov Joseph Orozco's radio experience is rooted in tribal community radio as the manager of KIDE-FM, the first solar powered radio station, and the only Native American owned non-commercial radio station, in California. He is the co-founder of the Seven Rivers Radio Network, a new collaboration of four community radio stations in Humboldt and Mendocino Counties. A 2005 Hewlett Foundation Fellow, Orozco continues work as an independent radio producer with his most recent co-production, Dying for Water: Indians, Politics and Dead Fish in the Klamath River Basin. In 1999, Orozco received the NFCB Silver Reel Award for his production on California Indian ceremonies, Balancing Life, Dancing in Time. Orozco is serving his third elected term as the Hoopa Valley Tribal Election Board Chairman and is also a board member to the public broadcasting station KEET-TV in Eureka. Mike Roberts (Tlingit) Vice President of Grantmaking, First Nations Development Institute, 2300 Fall Hill Ave., Suite 412, Fredericksburg, VA 22401, (540) 371-5615 or (720) 300-0039. mroberts@firstnations.org (Alternate) Roberts once operated his own consulting firm, Camus Consulting, in Denver, CO, providing private equity investment advice to angel investors. Robert's past includes 5 years in venture capital. Roberts also provided due diligence, financial analysis, strategic planning and monitoring, and investment recommendations to the Principals and Investment Directors of Meritage Private Equity Fund, a telecommunications-focused, private equity firm with $340 million under management. Roberts spent two years with Kansas City Equity Partners, a highly respected Midwest venture capital firm in conjunction with the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation's Fellows Program. Roberts currently serves on the grants review committee of First Nations' Eagle Staff Fund, is an immediate past member of First Nations' board of directors, and is a founding board member of First Nations Oweesta Corporation. In addition, Roberts is a past board member and treasurer of the Association for Enterprise Opportunity. Jaclyn Sallee (Inupiat Eskimo) President and CEO, Koahnic Broadcast Corporation, 818 E 9th, Anchorage, AK 99501, (907) 258-8880. jsallee@knba.org Under Sallee's direction, Koahnic Broadcast Corporation reached an enviable national leadership position in the broadcast industry by designing and developing KBC's most popular and award-winning programs: National Native News, Stories of Our People, The Native Word of the Day, Earthsongs, and Native America Calling. Sallee has also led KBC's National Training Center to provide training opportunities for more than 500 Alaska Natives in broadcast careers. Sallee was a key player in creating the Alaska Native Youth Media Institute, which brings Native youth to Anchorage each summer for an intensive introduction to journalism and other media careers. Many of the training programs have received awards for innovation and impact. Sallee is an Anchorage Rotarian and serves on the boards of the CIRI Foundation and the Foraker Group. Mary Sando-Emhoolah (Warm Springs/Wasco/Aleut) Board of Directors, National Federation of Community Broadcasters, 1970 Broadway, Suite 1000, Oakland, CA 94612 and former general manager of KWSO-FM, Warm Springs, OR. msando@bendnet.com Sando-Emhoolah has been involved in public radio for over 19 years, with 15 of those years at KWSO-FM, Warm Springs Community Radio. She has worked with several Native and non-Native organizations, including as news co-host for KLCC-FM in Eugene, OR, board member for the Native American Journalist Association, conference planner and radio project trainer for Unity'94, conference presenter for the Associates of Independents in Radio, and board member for the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB). Sando-Emhoolah also served as a producer and program advisor for American Indian Radio on Satellite. In 2003 and 2004 she served as on-air host for the Schemitzun annual pow wow of the Mashantucket Pequot Nation of Connecticut. Sando-Emhoolah was part of the production team for 2004 Grand Opening of the National Museum of the American Indian, and is a past selector for the NMAI Native Film and Video Festival in NYC. Sando-Emhoolah currently serves on the board of directors for NFCB, and is an independent producer living and working on the Warm Springs Indian Reservation in Warm Springs, OR. Peter Tuluk (Cup'iq Eskimo) General Manager, KCUK-FM, 985 KSD Way, Chevak, AK 99563, (907) 858-7015, Nauliaran@yahoo.com Tuluk started KCUK educational public radio station in 1987 in Chevak, Alaska and is still involved with the Alaska Public Broadcasting in Alaska. Tuluk implemented bilingual radio programming through KCUK to service both Non-English speakers and Non-Native speakers in the KCUK service area Villages. He has served on the Alaska Public Radio Network Board representing several public radios in Alaska. Tuluk participated in the first Native American Radio Summit in Oregon and served on the Alaska One Public Television Board representing Southwestern Alaska. Since 2001, Tuluk has served as the Chief of the Chevak Tribal Government. He teaches a radio course to the Chevak School District high school students as an elective course. Tuluk is also a member of the Association Village Council Presidents Executive Board, a non-profit regional organization for Southwestern Alaska. Marcia Warren Edelman (Santa Clara Pueblo) President, Native Networking
Policy Center (NNPC), 1640 Stowe Road, Reston, VA 20194, 703.437.4436,
marcia@nativenetworking.org,
www.nativenetworking.org Edelman is co-author of "Native Networking: Telecommunications and Information Technology in Indian Country," published by the Benton Foundation in 1999. Edelman serves as President for NNPC and is a co-founder of the organization. From 1999 to 2001, Edelman served as the first Senior Policy Advisor to the Secretary for Native American Affairs for the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. During that time, Edelman led an intra-departmental Native American Affairs Working Group in the development of a five-year strategic plan for Indian programs and policy; coordinated the "Digital Opportunities in Indian Country" site visit on Secretary Norman Mineta's Digital Opportunities Tour; and served as the Department's representative to the White House Domestic Policy Council's Working Group on American Indians and Alaska Natives, and to the National Congress of American Indian's (NCAI) Digital Divide Task Force. Laura Waterman-Wittstock (Seneca Nation) President, MIGIZI Communications, 3123 East Lake, Minneapolis, MN 55406, (612) 721-6631 x 200. wittstock@migizi.org Wittstock was born on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation in New York.
Wittstock is a political activist for the Native American Peoples. She
founded MIGIZI Communications, a radio news service in the Midwest Great
Lakes area for Native peoples. Her activities include work for the Women's
Educational Equity Act and the Harriet Tubman Battered Women's Center.
She has also served on many alcohol related education programs. Wittstock
has been the director of the American Indian Press Association and editor
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