Interim Executive Director

Richard, is Project Director for the Euchee (Yuchi) Language Project, based in Sapulpa, Oklahoma, working with the six remaining fluent Yuchi speakers.  After completing his PhD at Princeton Theological Seminary in History of Religions he taught for the next eight years as an Assistant Professor at St. Olaf College in Minnesota and at the University of Tulsa.  He served as Faculty with the Pew Foundation Program in Religion and American History

Director, Education and Research

Ann received a doctorate in psychology, sociology and philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, Phila. She has taught and served as administrator at a number of universities including the University of Pennsylvania, Widener University, Penn State University and Goddard College, teaching courses in the social sciences, philosophy and Native American Studies. Her cross-cultural and interdisciplinary research has been reported in professional journals, books, and academic

Director, Art Therapy

Pamela received her Masters in Human Relations degree with emphasis on professional counseling from the University of Oklahoma, Tulsa, completed her requirements for licensure as a licensed professional counselor and registered art therapist and has done further graduate work in art therapy at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. She completed art therapy internships at Creek Nation Behavioral Health Services and elementary schools where she worked

President

Associate Degree in Horticulture, Applied Science from Tulsa Community College, B.B.A. in Finance from Northeastern State University, MA in Education Administration from University of Oklahoma (Seneca-Cayuga/Cherokee), Internship at National Institute for Standards and Technology in Washington, DC. His father attended Chilocco Indian School and his mother attended Haskell and Seneca Indian Schools. Ray spent 13 years in radio broadcasting

Vice-President
Vanessa Adams-Harris has over 20 years of theatre experience. She is a Muscogee Creek/African-American artist, actor, director, workshop facilitator and playwright.

Her credits include print/commercial modeling, national and international appearances with award winning solo shows as Civil Rights Matriarch Rosa Parks, Oklahoma legend Ada Lois Sipuel-Fisher and her award winning appearance as Lena May Baker.

She is the creator of Theatre By Me I and II a theatre study for African-American and Native American children facilitating and fostering the possibility of future playwrights, directors, actors and artists with the history of theatre and how children can and should be creators within the arts with the Salvation Army Boys and Girls Club-Mabee North-Tulsa, OK. She also created/directed “Resonating Voices” for the Resonance Center for Women, Inc. in Tulsa, Oklahoma, developing a forum for women in transition through writings.

Secretary

Bachelor of Social Science (final semester). Deborah formerly a paralegal, is a poet, spoken word artist, actor, and workshop facilitator. She has taught poetry through community arts and arts in the schools programs since 1997, working with diverse populations using poetry as a healing and self-esteem building tool, and was presented with the Jingle Feldman Artist Award in 2000.

Treasurer

Richards has an associate degree in data processing; Rutledge University, associate degree liberal arts psychology; Tulsa CommuniRichard Fox, MEd, (Cherokee)ty College, bachelor’s degree in liberal arts psychology; Langston University, Masters degree in education; with, an emphasis on Curriculum Development and Supervision, University of Oklahoma.Currently Richard is serving as Computer Support Supervisor for Tulsa Community College as

Advisory Board Member

Adjunct Assistant Professor of Forensic Psychology, Center for Health Sciences/Forensic Sciences, Oklahoma State University. Dr. LaFortune, a licensed psychologist and attorney, serves as Chief of Forensic Psychological Services for the Oklahoma Indigent Defense System and also as an Adjunct Faculty Member in both the College of Law and the Department of Psychology at the University of Tulsa. She has been a forensic psychologist at Eastern State

Advisory Board Member

Barbara is a graduate of Bartlesville Wesleyan College, Bartlesville, OK, majoring in Human Resource Management. Earlier, she was an electrical engineering major at University of Missouri in Rolla, Missouri. She has worked in and managed a variety of professional health care offices. She has done extensive post-baccalaureate research inthe area of electro-medicine, addiction nutrition and neurogenesis and presents the results of this work in