Board of Trustees

Loren Kieve (Cherokee), Chair

San Francisco, CA
Kieve is the principal of Kieve Law Offices, a practice that focuses on complex domestic and international disputes and legal problems.

Bitdah N. Becker (Navajo)

Fort Defiance, AZ
Becker is Assistant Attorney General for the Natural Resources Unit of the Navajo Nation Department of Justice.

Barbara Davis Blum, Treasurer

Washington, D.C.
Davis Blum is the president of BDB Investment Partnership in Washington D.C. and was the deputy administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency.

Brenda L. Kingery (Chickasaw), Vice-Chair

San Antonio, TX
Kingery is a professional artist who seeks to put her life on canvas.

Cynthia Chavez Lamar (San Felipe Pueblo/Hopi/Tewa/Navajo), Member at Large

Santa Fe, NM
Chavez Lamar is currently the director of the Indian Arts Research Center (IARC) at The School for Advanced Research (SAR) on the Human Experience in Santa Fe.

Sonya Kelliher-Combs (Athabascan/Inupiaq)

Anchorage, AK
Kelliher-Combs is a professional artist who lives and works in Anchorage, Alaska.

JoAnn Balzer

Santa Fe, NM
Santa Fe community leader and arts advocate, has more than twenty years of non-profit management, museum and fund-raising experience. She has long been a supporter of the contemporary expressions of Native American arts and cultures.

Georgianna Ignace (Menominee)

Brookfield, WI
Ignace is a former teacher, public relations consultant, and president of the board of directors for the Menominee Nation Tribal College.

Kristine Miller

Boulder, CO
Miller is a partner in Holland and Hart’s Boulder, Colorado office focusing her legal practice on trademark, copyright, and marketing and promotions law.

James D. Santini

Washington, D.C.
Santini is the Washington, D.C. representative for the National Tour Association and the Conference of National Park Concessionaires. He also served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1975 and 1986.

Deborah Goodman (Caddo/Cherokee), Secretary

Oklahoma City, OK

Dr. Deborah Downing Goodman is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the University of Oklahoma (OU), a community volunteer, and a former health educator. Her academic research has focused on culturally sensitive curriculum programming.

Barbara J. Ells

Boulder, CO
While raising her family, Barbara was active in each of their communities in both political as well as Women’s issues including opening and teaching in three different Head-Start pre-schools.