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The Indigenous Leadership Academy is currently accepting applications for the Spring 2023 cohort! What are you waiting for? Start your application today by clicking here. 

For as long as I can remember, my sister and I would each have one New Year's resolution that we would tell each other and then we would promise to hold one another accountable. You can guess what happened next, we neither kept our resolutions nor held each other accountable. It was a good idea but with no action behind it, the resolution fizzled out quickly. If we would have known how to use SMART goals, maybe our success rate would have been higher. SMART...

We have successfully completed the Fall 2022 cohort of the Indigenous Leadership Academy (ILA)! The application for the Spring 2023 cohort will open on December 5, 2022. Follow along with AIPI for upcoming blogs, posts and everything else ILA.  

We are so appreciative of all our guest speakers for modules six through nine! These experts in their respective fields imparted their knowledge, shared their insights, and gave their time to the ILA. You can read more about each of our talented guest speakers below. 

Module 6: Communicating Your Story and Exhibiting Professional Etiquette; 

Traci Morris, PhD. (Chickasaw) Dr. Morris, the executive director of the American Indian Policy (AIPI) Institute at Arizona...

We are halfway through the Fall 2022 cohort of the Indigenous Leadership Academy (ILA)! We’ve had the honor of having very talented guest speakers during each module. We are so appreciative of all our guest speakers for modules two through five. These experts in their respective fields imparted their knowledge, shared their insights, and gave their time to the ILA. You can read more about each of the amazing guest speakers below. 

Module 2: Understanding Political and Economic Contexts in Indian Country; 

Robert Miller (Eastern Shawnee Tribe) is a professor at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University where he is also the Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished...

The American Indian Policy Institute’s Indigenous Leadership Academy (ILA) is currently running its second cohort! Sign up here to follow along and receive ILA updates.

I wanted to do a “where are they now?” series from the first ILA cohort for a while now. The first cohort was a learning curve for me and the cohort came with so many wonderful ideas and insights. I really enjoyed getting to know them and I wanted the rest of the world to know them too. 

Our first guest in this series is Mikah Carlos. She is a breath of fresh air and every time she speaks, a joke spills out. She is...