WHO WE ARE

Staff

phone: (520) 626-0664
fax: (520) 626-1882
e-mail: nni@u.arizona.edu

Joan Timeche, M.B.A. (Hopi)
Executive Director
(520) 626-0664 timechej@u.arizona.edu

Miriam Jorgensen, Ph.D., M.P.P.
Research Director
(520) 626-0664 mjorgens@u.arizona.edu

Mary Elizabeth Jäger, B.A., M.S.W (Citizen Potwatomi)
Research Analyst
jager@email.arizona.edu

Charissa Delmar, B.A. (Navajo)
Research Specialist
(520) 626-1505 cdelmar@email.arizona.edu

Herminia (Minnie) Frias, M.P.H. (Pascua Yaqui)
Partnership Manager, Bush Foundation
(520) 626-4661 frias@u.arizona.edu

Renée Goldtooth, M.P.H. (Navajo)
Manager, Leadership and Management Programs
(520) 626-2745 hozho@u.arizona.edu

Emily Dellinger McGovern, M.A.
Research Analyst and Editorial Associate
(520) 626-1462 emcgove@u.arizona.edu

Stephanie Carroll Rainie, M.P.H. (Ahtna Athabascan)
Senior Researcher, Assistant Director of the Udall Center
(520) 626-4393 scrainie@u.arizona.edu

Ian Record, Ph.D.
Manager, Educational Resources Program
Senior Lecturer of American Indian Studies
(520) 626-9839 recordi@u.arizona.edu

Ryan Seelau, S.J.D., J.D.
Senior Researcher
(520) 626-0664 seelau@u.arizona.edu

Jennifer Schultz, M.A.
Graduate Research Associate

Rachel Starks, M.A. (Zuni / Navajo)
Senior Researcher and Senior Research Coordinator
(520) 626-5756 rstarks@u.arizona.edu

Administrative Staff

Akenabah Begay, B.A. (Navajo)
Administrative Associate
(520) 626-0664 begay2@email.arizona.edu

Suzy Brown, M.B.A.
Accountant
(520) 626-4393 sbrown76@email.arizona.edu

Loren Dick (Navajo)
Undergraduate Student Assistant

Ariel Mack, B.F.A.
Graphic Designer
(520) 626-0664 macka@u.arizona.edu

Sonia R. Tinoco, A.S. (Comanche)
Administrative Assistant NNI/Bush Foundation
(520) 626-4635 tinocos@email.arizona.edu

Faculty Associates

Manley A. Begay, Jr., Ed.D. (Navajo)
Associate Social Scientist
American Indian Studies Program
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

Stephen Cornell, Ph.D.
Director, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy
Professor of Sociology and of Public Administration and Policy
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

Joseph P. Kalt, Ph.D.
Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

Robert A. Williams, J.D. (Lumbee)
E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law and American Indian Studies
James E. Rogers College of Law
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

Policy Associates

Alyce Adams, Ph.D.
Kaiser Permanente Disparities Working Group
and the Advisory Committee on Quality for the California Health Families Program
Oakland, CA

Manon "Misko" Beaudrie, M.Ed. (Anishinabe, Michigan and Manitoba)
Researcher
Marshfield, MA

Stephen Brimley
Brimley Consulting

Joseph Thomas Flies-Away, J.D., M.P.A. (Hualapai)
Wildaus Cinsulting
Palo Alto, CA

Kenneth Grant, M.P.P.
Lexecon, Inc.
Cambridge, MA

Eric Henson, M.P.P. (Chickasaw)
Lexecon, Inc.
Cambridge, MA

Cheryl Larsen
Canadian Executive Service Organization
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Lance Morgan, J.D. (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska)
President and Chief Executive Officer of Ho-Chunk, Inc.
Winnebago, NE

Laura Seelau, J.D., M.A.
Project for Indigenous Self-Determination

Jonathan Taylor, M.P.P.
Taylor Policy Group
Sarasota, FL

Program Associates

Amy Besaw Medford, Ed.M. (Brothertown)
Research Affiliate
Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

Robert Breaker, B.E.D. (Siksika)
First Nation Leadership & Management
Advisor & Consultant
Member, Board of Director, Sunrise Native Addiction Services Society
Siksika, AB

D. Eileen Briggs, M.Ed., (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe)
Executive Director, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribal Ventures
Board President at Ta-te Topa (Four Winds) Energy, Inc.,
Owner at Ho-Waste/Good Voice Consulting
Eagle Butte, SD

Megan Minoka Hill, (Oneida Nation WI)
Director of Honering Nations
Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

Tina Merdanian, B.S. (Oglala Sioux Tribe)
Institutional Relations at Red Cloud Indian School, Inc.
Rapid City, South Dakota Area

Jackie Old Coyote, Ed.M. (Crow/Ho-Chunk)
Director of Education and Outreach
Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

Gerald Sherman (Oglala Lakota)
President, Indian Land Capital Company
and on NNI's International Advisory Council
Roscoe, MT