People
Staff
Traci L. Morris, PhD
Executive Director
Since 2014, Dr. Morris has been the executive director of the American Indian Policy (AIPI) Institute at Arizona State University. She is a member…
JoAnn di Filippo, PhD
Associate Director
Dr. di Filippo currently serves as the Associate Director for AIPI. During the past 20 years, di Filippo has worked as a business and finance…
E.J. John, JD
Senior Policy Analyst
E.J. is AIPI's Policy & Research Analyst and is a member of the Navajo Nation from Vanderwagen, New Mexico. He received his J.D. from the…
Beth Santistevan, MA
Policy & Communications Program Coordinator
Beth Santistevan (Southern Ute) grew up on the Southern Ute reservation in Ignacio, CO. Beth has over a decade of experience working within Tribal…
Kristen Talbert, MBA, MA
Indigenous Leadership Academy Program Manager
Kristen (Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Oyate) is the Program Manager for the Indigenous Leadership Academy at the American Indian Policy Institute. She…
Advisory Board
- Jacob Moore, ASU Vice President & Special Advisor to the President for American Indian Affairs (Tohono O’Odham)
- Kathlene Rosier, Assistant Dean, Community Engagement + Executive Director of Indian Legal Program, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law (Comanche Tribe of Oklahoma)
- Karen Mossberger, Fran and June Sackton Professor in the School of Public Affairs, and Director, Center on Technology, Data and Society
- BOD President: Stephen Roe Lewis, Governor, Gila River Indian Community
- BOD Secretary:
- BOD Vice President: Geoffrey Blackwell, General Counsel and Chief of Staff, National Congress of American Indians, Co-Chair NCAI Economic, Finance and Community Development Committee, Co-Chair NCAI Telecommunications subcommittee (Chickasaw, Choctaw, Omaha, and Muscogee Creek)
- Maria Dadgar, Executive Director, InterTribal Council Arizona (Piscataway Tribe of Accokeek)
- Matthew Rantanen, Director of Technology, Southern California Tribal Chairman’s Association, FCC Tribal Leader Task Force, Co-Chair NCAI Telecommunications subcommittee (Cree)
- Sascha Meinrath, Palmer Chair in Telecommunications, Penn State University and Director of the X-Lab.
- Sarah EchoHawk, Chief Executive Officer, American Indian Science and Engineering Society (Pawnee)
- Jason Coochwytewa, Chief Executive Officer, Urias Communications (Hopi/Isleta)
- John Tippeconnic, Retired, former Director American Indian Studies Program (Comanche Tribe of Oklahoma)
- Rebecca Tsosie, Regents’ Professor of Law; Special Advisor to the Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, University of Arizona, Tucson. (Pascua Yaqui)
- Nathan Pryor, Government Relations Manager, Maricopa Association of Governments (Navajo Nation)
- Jamie Fullmer, Bluestone Strategy Group (Yavapai-Apache Nation)
- Marcelino Flores, Pasqua Yaqui Tribe
- Jacqueline Pata, Executive Director, National Congress of American Indians (Tlingit Tribe)
- Roy Boney, Director, Language Programs at Cherokee Nation (Cherokee Nation)
- Kim Scott, Founder & Executive Director, Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology and Founder of Compugirls.org
- Ed Brown Retired/Emeritus, former Executive Director of ASU AIPI and ASU AIS (Pascua Yaqui/Tohono O’odham)