Honor the Past Be the Future PROGRAM OKLAHOMA CITY, OK OCTOBER 4-6, 2018 Honor the Past. Be the Future.

Safe Camp and Code of Conduct All conference participants are expected to adhere to the AISES standards of conduct. SAFE CAMP The AISES National Conference is a “Safe Camp,” meaning this is a welcoming, inclusive, supportive and safe environment for all our AISES family members regardless of race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, or gender expression/identity. Safe Camp includes recognizing the AISES Code of Conduct and anyone found violating the code will be asked to leave the conference immediately. Please contact any AISES staff member or board member if you have any questions. CODE OF CONDUCT The American Indian Science & Engineering Society (AISES) was established with the goal of developing Native professionals and leaders in the areas of science, technology, engineering and math. In light of this goal, the first student leaders of AISES developed a set of principles that prohibited alcohol, illegal drugs, and harassment. These principals have become core values of the organization and are incorporated as the Code of Conduct. The AISES Code of Conduct promotes professional development and personal growth by strictly prohibiting the use of intoxicating drugs or alcohol and all forms of harassment and discrimination. This code is meant to reflect the ideals of our Native communities by establishing an expectation that we agree to protect and promote the well- being and growth of all people. This code is expected to be honored when individuals are representing the AISES organization and by all persons participating in AISES activities. To this end, each person is asked to adhere to this code and promote its intent by refraining from prohibited activities and encouraging others to do the same. AISES will continue to maintain the Code of Conduct as a symbol reflective of the teachings and values of our ancestors. The Code of Conduct represents the ideas and visions set forth by the AISES founders and the student leadership. AISES values and respects the rights and privileges of others and asks that you honor the AISES organization, its mission, and the family of AISES by adhering to this Code of Conduct.

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6 Emcee and DJ 7 Keynote Speaker 8 Entertainment 9 Sponsors 11 Need to Know 13 Conference Map 15 Conference Agenda Highlights 16 Agenda 26 Research Agenda 30 Session Descriptions 53 Presenters 82 Exhibitor Floor Plan 83 Exhibitors 86 AISES Circle Partners TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE

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Dear American Indian Science and Engineering Society Annual Conference Attendees: Welcome to Oklahoma City for this year’s annual AISES National Conference! We are excited to spend three fastmoving days together in Oklahoma – home to almost 40 indigenous tribes. Oklahoma is an amazing crossroads in the heart of America. We hope that being here will help to put you in the mindset of this year’s theme, Honor the Past, Be the Future. We meet in alliance with educators, partners, leaders, members, and all the groups that comprise the AISES family. As always, we thank our host communities in welcoming AISES to the distinctive Red Earth state. The 2018 National Conference program shows the progress and strength of AISES that is provided by its members, partners, advisory councils and so many others. The schedule is an exciting mix of sessions that are rich and diverse in the promotion of STEM knowledge, research, and trends. We hope that you are open to new ideas and will take advantage of every opportunity to expand your knowledge by attending a variety of presentations, breakouts, and interactive sessions with leading STEM professionals to invigorate your career or academic studies. The world of STEM continues to grow and adapt and working to stay ahead of the latest trends in the global STEM economy is essential to us all. We would like to give you an idea of what you can expect and what we hope to achieve over the next few days from the opening keynote by the first American Indian astronaut, Dr. John B. Herrington to our closing ceremony with entertainer, Kelly Jackson. In between event highlights are the morning blessing ceremony to set our hearts and minds in a good way; the Student Shout-Out that energizes the opening ceremony; the Resume Room that is open for helpful advice to land that dream job; the Talking Circles for sharing and restorative connections, and; of course, the exciting Student Honors Luncheon. Our call to action to you is to engage with others at the National Conference in meaningful ways that support your personal growth and commitment in your STEM education or career. Let’s give you a brief update of where we are today. AISES launched a direct mail marketing campaign in 2018 to reach specific audiences and share information and gain financial support about AISES’ mission. Our 50K Coalition partnerships are flourishing in our goals to graduate 50,000 diverse engineers annually by 2025. The SPRKing Interest in Computer Science program that engages students in hands-on STEM+C activities powered by Sphero technology was created by AISES and is tailored to Native students. Tribal leaders and representatives are networked with AISES through the Tribal Nations Advisory Council – our newest advisory council – to liaison, advocate, and network AISES with tribal communities more strongly and strategically. The Intel Navajo HS Project is designed to bring computer science technology to middle school students on the Navajo reservation. This project ensures that students are introduced to STEM at an early age – and, if done right, leads to understanding and consideration of STEM as part of their future careers. Finally, we estimate AISES has awarded over $11 million in scholarships over its lifetime, and we continually seek ways to increase financial benefits for college success! Be on the lookout for opportunities to unwind and enjoy yourself! Join us at the conference kick-off event on Thursday morning, the Networking Suites, and the College and Career Fair on Friday. Attendees who purchased a Full Conference Registration will have access to the Opening Ceremony, the College and Career Fair, and the Closing Ceremony on Saturday evening. Career Fair/Day Pass holders can inquire at the registration desk about purchasing tickets to these events, as tickets are not sold at the door. As this will be Twyla’s final conference serving as the AISES’ Board of Directors Chair and outgoing board member, we thank Twyla for being a staunch supporter, volunteer, and advocate for AISES. We are in sincere appreciation of her service that she has taken on with gratitude, grace, and generosity. We are grateful for her active leadership as a judicious steward of our organization. To all of the individuals who worked to make this event such a success, THANK YOU! Your diligent efforts are vital to this organization, to Indigenous STEM professions, and to our growing membership. With warmest regards,

Twyla Baker Sarah EchoHawk, AISES Board of Director’s Chair AISES Chief Executive Officer 2018 AISES National Conference Program 2018 AISES National Conference Program 5 Honor the Past. Be the Future.

2018 National Conference Emcee and DJ One Chance Leadership - Emcee One and Chance Rush Combine to Help Reach Native American and All Youth Nationwide. Chance Lee Rush - National Conference Emcee For the past 13 years I have been blessed to conduct trainings throughout North America to promote and be an advocate for healthy living. My areas of interest and commitment are in the strength of family, community, education and culture. I spent a part of my life in North Dakota on both the Standing Rock and Fort Berthold Indian Reservations before moving to Oklahoma with my mother where I established my education, family and home. Oklahoma is where I live but Fort Berthold is where I originated, its my home, its where I’m from, its my roots, and will be my final resting place. I am very grateful to be a son, a brother, a friend and most importantly a father and advocate for healthy living. I have spent my entire life alcohol and drug free. I believe being an example for others is the greatest gift you can give. I also believe that being consistent in my teachings, as well as showing and encouraging others through my actions will lead to healthy choices for a better life style. Emcee One - Marcus Guinn - National Conference DJ Marcus Anthony Guinn, is a member of the Osage and Potawatomi Nations of Oklahoma. He is a national speaker, recording artist, DJ, conference consultant, and youth advocate. Marcus has served with many youth, and youth organizations nationally. He has worked in partnership with UNITY, NCAI, NIEA, AISES, AIBL, RES, public schools, plus White House events for both the Bush and Obama administrations. He has most recently teamed up with Chance Rush to develop “One Chance Leadership” that uses workshops, trainings, and leadership camps as platforms to spread positive messaging to Indigenous youth and all youth across the nation to succeed. He works with: the Native Wellness Institute, “Today’s Native Leaders,” a training by the Office of Juvenile Justice and UNITY, Inc., The White House’s Initiative “Generation Indigenous”, and The White House Tribal Youth Gathering. In addition to youth advocacy, he is a 2017 MTV Video Music Award winner, official DJ for Nike N7 and the international DJ / Tech lead for Taboo (Black Eyed Peas).

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER Dr. John Herrington’s Amazing Biography: Celebrating a Trailblazing Indigenous Astronaut and Scholar Dr. John Bennet Herrington is a retired Naval Aviator, test pilot, and astronaut who has traveled the world and interacted with people from many cultures. His experiences have instilled a deep appreciation and respect for the diverse nature of the human race and a desire to engage and understand the perspective of others. It is tremendously important he share his Native American perspective with a broad audience that has not had the opportunity to understand or appreciate the talents Native American students bring to the world. He believes the most effective way is to bring more Native American graduates into the STEM professions. Herrington is considered the first tribally-enrolled Native American astronaut who was a crew member aboard the STS-113 on the Space Shuttle Endeavour. It was in November 2002, nine years before the final flight of the NASA Space Shuttle program. The mission lasted 14 days where the Endeavour crew and the Expedition Six crew combined to install the new P1 truss to the International Space Station (ISS). The crew performed three spacewalks to outfit and activate the truss, and transfer supplies and equipment between the two spacecraft. Endeavour brought more than 2,500 pounds of material to the ISS. Dr. Herrington holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Applied Mathematics from the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, a Master of Science Degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the US Naval Postgraduate School, and Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Education from the University of Idaho. Herrington’s career is impressive and demonstrates what is possible for Native Americans students if they are provided resources and support in STEM education. He is committed to helping Native American students achieve success in a field they are passionate about. He has been affiliated with the American Indian Science and Engineering Society for over 20 years. He currently serves on the AISES board of directors and is a lifetime Sequoyah Fellow. John has strong nonprofit board experience in financial management, capital campaigns, and public relations. He has also served as an adjunct professor teaching mathematics at a tribal college in the Pacific Northwest. In October 2018, he will be inducted into the first National Native American Hall of Fame that calls attention to extraordinary people who are role models and who have acted and lived by example to others throughout their lives and careers. John lives in Idaho. He enjoys flying with his dog Emme, and is a doting grandfather. 2018 AISES National Conference Program 2018 AISES National Conference Program 7 Honor the Past. Be the Future. ENTERTAINMENT

Kelly Jackson She was one of Brava Magazine’s Women to Watch in 2014 for her nonprofit work Award-winning Artist and empowering musical collections. Ms. National award-winning recording artist Jackson earned a Native American Music Kelly Jackson and her seven-piece band Award for her album, Spirit of a Woman, for have decorated stages across the country, best Americana Album of the Year and was showcasing at the House of Blues in Las nominated in four other categories including Vegas, and the Hard Rock Cafe in Phoenix, Best Female Artist of the Year. Arizona. Her first album won Best Americana Album of Kelly is an enrolled member of the Lac du the Year in the Native American Music Awards Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in 2012 and continues to hit the top 40 in INI Indians currently living in Madison, Wisconsin. music playlists, while with her single, After All Ms. Jackson’s genre is Native Americana, This Time hits the top 40 play list on Canada’s having roots in folk, jazz, country, rock and Sirius radio. Kelly’s recently released her now pop and hip-hip all infused with native single, “Wake Up” already it has earned national influences such as drums, shakers, bells recognition. and the majestic sound of the native flute. Her 2015 album, Renditions of the Soul gained She composes rhythms and harmonies admiration for its unique flare and remarkable that compliment her native roots and the production and was an Indigenous Music lyrical messages that invoke healing, self- Award nominee in the category of best empowerment and cultural reflection. folk album of the year. It is a collection Ms. Jackson has shared the stage with the that addresses topics of sexual violence, Indigo Girls in their efforts to champion addiction and most importantly the ability environmental preservation. Kelly Jackson’s to thrive, build and empower each other music celebrates and supports women’s no matter the obstacles that challenge our personal and professional development and lives. Ms. Jackson’s music offers a sense of she strives to include other indigenous artists empowerment while recognizing the unique in her nonprofit work. struggles of Indigenous populations.

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2018 National Conference Sponsors A heartfelt thank you to this year’s Sponsors. We encourage the AISES National Conference participants to thank your sponsors when the opportunity presents itself. We appreciate their interest in AISES’ vision and are grateful for their friendship and support. Their ongoing commitment to North American Indigenous STEM students and professionals is inspiring and crucial to the success of our event each year. TURQUOISE

CORAL

LAPIS

United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service

ONYX

RESOURCES

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CIRCLE SPONSORSHIP

SWEETGRASS

SAGE

CEDAR

PINON

NATIVE LINKS GOLF CLASSIC HOST SPONDSOR

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Plenary Luncheon Student Awards Luncheon Travel Scholarships 3M Emma Bowen Foundation General Motors Student Research General Motors USDA – Natural Resource Alfred P. Sloan Foundation NSA Conservation Service CIRES (Cooperative Institute College Session Track Community Partners for Research in Environmental America’s Navy Airbnb Sciences) Student Orientation The Cheyenne and Arapaho Jack Kent Cooke Foundation America’s Navy Tribes of Oklahoma STEM Activity Day Social Media Booth DiversityComm Inc. The Boeing Company AT&T Rockwell Collins hackAISES Event Networking Suite National Institutes of Heath IBM Sponsors Wells Fargo Industry Tours 3M Oklahoma State University NSA University of Central National Science Foundation Oklahoma ICorp University of Oklahoma & Navajo Transitional Energy National Weather Center Company U.S. Air Force

ADDITIONAL SPONSORS Raytheon USDA NRCS

DONATIONS AISES thanks the following organizations for their donations and support of this years National Conference. Their generous donations funded the student prizes. Aqua Strategies, Inc. Wichita and Affiliated Tribes Austin, Texas Anadarko, Oklahoma Union of Concerned Scientists, Inc. Cambridge, Massachusetts NEED TO KNOW Conference Basics - What You Need To Know On-Site Registration and Name Badges Information Your name badge allows you access to all conference functions, including Saturday night’s Registration will take place in Ballroom pre- Closing Banquet. Please wear your badge always. If function area of the Cox Convention Center. Stop you lose your badge, please go to the conference by during the hours listed below to pick up your registration desk for a replacement. name badge or if you have questions. Wednesday: 9:00 am – 6:00 pm Thursday & Friday: 7:00 am – 5:00 pm Saturday: 7:00 am – 12:00 pm

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Session Tracks AISES Merchandise AISES gear gets scooped up fast! Make sure to Although all sessions fall within a specific track, this stop by the AISES Merchandise Booth located near designation is just a suggestion! We encourage the conference registration desk in the Ballroom you to read through the program, especially the prefunction area. session descriptions, and attend ANY session suited to your interests. There are so many sessions Wednesday: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm to choose from, so make a plan, be strategic, Thursday & Friday: 7:00 am – 5:00 pm and most importantly engage with your fellow Saturday: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm conference attendees and presenters. Native Artisan Marketplace AISES Photographer and Located on the first floor near Rooms 3 & 4 in Cox Convention Center. Get a jumpstart on Videographer your holiday shopping or just indulge yourself We enjoy capturing the “faces of AISES” throughout with a treat from the AISES Marketplace where the National Conference. Therefore, an official Native artisans have wonderful items available for professional photographer and videographer will purchase. be on-site during major conference ceremonies, Thursday: 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm meetings, and sessions. Images and video will be used for AISES promotional purposes only. Friday: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm Saturday: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm 3M Lunch for Students Student Research Presentation Competition If you are a high school or college/graduate Pre-College, Undergraduate, and Graduate student, please be sure to join us for lunch on students will showcase their STEM research at oral Thursday, October 4 from 11:45 - 1:15 pm in the and poster presentation sessions during the AISES Grand Ballroom. Registration is recommended but National Conference. We encourage all conference not required. We want you there! Join 3M and 500 participants to show their support by attending of your closest friends for lunch and an interactive the oral presentations (Friday) and poster experience! presentations (Friday) located on the College and AISES Resume Room Career Fair floor. The Resume Room will be available to students Poster Presentations to fine tune their resumes for upload to the Presenters are expected to mount their posters on AISES Resume Databases and to distribute at the Friday, October 5, between the hours of 8:00 am National Conference College & Career Fair. Room 6 - 9:30 am in the back of the Exhibit Hall of the Cox will be equipped with computers and printers and Convention Center. staffed by experts from sponsoring organizations Presenters must be present at their poster during to help you polish your resume. the entire presentation time, 9:30 am – 5:00 pm on Thursday: 11:00 am – 6:00 pm Friday, October 5. Friday: 7:30 am – 5:00 pm Oral Presentations Presentations will take place on Friday, October 5 Feedback & Prizes between the hours of 9:30 am – 5:00p Your feedback and observations are important to us as we continue to design programs and events to best serve our members and friends. Please take our 2018 National Conference Attendee survey, available on the conference mobile app. Also, fill out the session evaluations on the mobile app at the end of each session to participate in a raffle for great prizes which be announced through the mobile app!

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KINGKADE ROOM

HUCKINS ROOM THREADGILL ROOM

GRAND AVENUE ROOM

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BILTMORE ROOM

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2018 AISES National Conference Program 2018 AISES National Conference Program 13 Honor the Past. Be theBrandon Future. Polingyumptewa Supply Chain Management Procurement Agent Tribal affiliation: Hopi

THE FUTURE IS BUILT HERE Join a diverse team that is united in pushing the boundaries of imagination and excellence. Come shape the future with us. boeing.com/careers/AISES Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

14 2018 AISES National Conference Program Brandon Polingyumptewa Honor the Past. Be the Future. Supply Chain Management Procurement Agent Tribal affiliation: Hopi

Conference Agenda Highlights Wednesday, October 3 Pre-Conference Highlights  Native Links Golf Classic hosted by Citizen  Boeing STEM Activity Day - Pre-College Potawatomi Nation Students  Conference Registration  Movie Night “Red Power Energy” - Rocky  AISES Merchandise Booth Mountain PBS  hackAISES sponsored by IBM Thursday, October 4 Day One Highlights  Opening Ceremony  Session Tracks: Pre-College, College,  Resume Room Professional, and General  3M Lunch for Students (Registration  LGBT Rainbow Gathering/Talking Circle Required) Men’s Talking Circle  Native Artisan Marketplace  Women’s Talking Circle  Industry Partner/University Site Tours  Networking Suites Friday, October 5 Day Two Highlights THE FUTURE  Morning Blessing Ceremony with the AISES  Student Caucuses Elders  Professional Members Dinner (Ticket  College and Career Fair purchase required) IS BUILT    Resume Room  Student Social Event - DJ and Dance  Poster and Oral Research Presentations HERE  Session Tracks: Pre-College, Educator, Professional, STEM & Business and General Join a diverse team that is united in Saturday, October 6 pushing the boundaries of imagination and excellence. Come shape the Day Three Highlights future with us.  Sequoyah Fellows Breakfast (Invitation Only)  US National College Student Caucus  Awards Luncheon for Students and Advisors  Closing Talking Circle Only  Closing Banquet  Session Tracks: Pre-College, College,  Powwow boeing.com/careers/AISES Educator, Professional, STEM & Business and Boeing is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, General religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, physical or mental disability, genetic factors, military/veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.  Canadian Members Meeting

2018 AISES National Conference Program 2018 AISES National Conference Program 15 AGENDA WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 3 Start Time End Time Session name Location Session Tracks Convention Center 7:30 am 8:30 am Volunteer Orientation 1st Floor Native Links Golf Classic 2nd Annual Charity 7:30 am 2:00 pm FireLake Golf Course Golf Tournament 8:30 am 4:30 pm NSF Lighting the Pathway Meeting Room 19 8:30 am 4:30 pm NSF ASSIST Meeting Room 20 9:00 am 5:00 pm AISES Merchandise Booth Ballroom Lobby 9:00 am 6:00 pm Conference Registration Ballroom Lobby 12:00 pm 4:00 pm STEM Activity Day - sponsored by Boeing Ballroom D & E Pre-College AISES Marketplace Booth: AISES Pre-College STEM Activity 12:00 pm 4:00 pm Ballroom D & E Opportunities Day STEM Activity 12:00 pm 4:00 pm Ballroom D & E Boeing DreamLearners Day STEM Activity 12:00 pm 4:00 pm Ballroom D & E Chemistry Hands-on Experiments Day STEM Activity 12:00 pm 4:00 pm Ballroom D & E HotSeat Weather Warning Simulator Day STEM Activity 12:00 pm 4:00 pm Ballroom D & E Lean Manufacturing Day STEM Activity 12:00 pm 4:00 pm Ballroom D & E Riveting Rockets Day STEM Activity 12:00 pm 4:00 pm Ballroom D & E The Sky Scraper Challenge Day College, Pre- 12:00 pm 6:00 pm Room 16 hackAISES: mini-hackathon - sponsored by IBM College 2:00 pm 6:00 pm GEM GRAD Grad Lab Room 17 College 6:30 pm 8:30 pm TNAC and NIH TAC Mixer (Invitation only) Room 10 Professional, 6:30 pm 8:00 pm Movie Night “Red Power Energy” Room 15 College, Pre- College THURSDAY OCTOBER 4 Start Time End Time Session name Location Session Tracks 7:00 am 5:00 pm AISES Merchandise Booth Ballroom Lobby 7:00 am 5:00 pm Conference Registration Ballroom Lobby 7:00 am 5:00 pm Exhibitor Move-In for College and Career Fair Exhibit Hall 7:45 am 8:30 am Exhibitor Orientation Room 15 Convention Center 8:00 am 12:00 pm Native Artisan Marketplace Vendors Move-In 1st Floor 8:30 am 10:45 am Opening Ceremony Grand Ballroom Student Orientation sponsored by America’s College, Pre- 11:00 am 11:45 am Grand Ballroom Navy College

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Start Time End Time Session name Location Session Tracks Professional, 11:00 am 6:00 pm Resume Room Room 6 College, Pre- College One Broadway 11:15 am 12:30 pm Tribal Nations Advisory Council (TNAC) Meeting Ballroom - Sheraton Professional Hotel College, Pre- 12:00 am 1:15 pm Grand Ballroom 3M Student Luncheon - sponsored by 3M College Convention Center 12:00 pm 5:00 pm Native Artisan Marketplace 1st Floor One Broadway 12:45 pm 1:45 pm TNAC & CAC Luncheon Mixer Ballroom - Sheraton Professional Hotel Biltmore - 1:00 pm 2:30 pm Professional Professional Chapter Council Meeting Renaissance Hotel Convention Center College, Pre- 1:30 pm 5:30 pm Industry Partner/University Site Tours 1st Floor College A Road-map To A Career In STEM: Planning the Grand Avenue - 2:00 pm 2:50 pm Pre-College Routes, Discovering the Detours, and Locating Renaissance Hotel Roadside Assistance Delivering the first exascale supercomputer: It Kingkade Room - 2:00 pm 2:50 pm General takes a community Renaissance Hotel From Resume Writing to Maximizing Your Career Plaza North - 2:00 pm 2:50 pm College Fair Experience, What You Need to Know Sheraton Hotel Financial Management: Sources of Funding for Plaza South - 2:00 pm 2:50 pm College Graduate School and Beyond Sheraton Hotel Red Carpet - 2:00 pm 2:50 pm College Engineering a difference in Indian Healthcare Sheraton Hotel 2:00 pm 2:50 pm It’s About Time to Get More Things Done Room 16 Professional Indigenizing Voice AI: Using Alexa Skills to 2:00 pm 2:50 pm Propagate and Preserve Native American Room 17 Pre-College Cultures, Part 1 of 2 American Indian/Alaska Native Health 2:00 pm 2:50 pm Professional Perspectives in United Public Health Room 18 General Service Indigenous and Western Science: Bringing 2:00 pm 2:50 pm Room 19 General Worldviews Together for Biocultural Restoration 2:00 pm 2:50 pm ENIGMA Room 20 Professional One Broadway 2:00 pm 3:30 pm Corporate Advisory Council (CAC) Meeting Ballroom - Sheraton Professional Hotel Post-Doctoral and Graduate Negotiations, 2:00 pm 4:50 pm Room 15 General Problem Solving, and Conflict Management Biltmore - 2:45 pm 4:45 pm Professional Chapter Advisors Meeting Renaissance Hotel

2018 AISES National Conference Program 2018 AISES National Conference Program 17 AGENDA THURSDAY OCTOBER 4 Start Time End Time Session name Location Session Tracks Grand Avenue - 3:00 pm 3:50 pm Pre-College Go to College: Be the Future Renaissance Hotel Decolonizing STEM – Using Hájíínei Hane’ Kingkade Room - 3:00 pm 3:50 pm General (Traditional Navajo Origin Stories) and NASA Renaissance Hotel Astrobiology Science Plaza North - 3:00 pm 3:50 pm College Environmental Health Sciences is for You! Sheraton Hotel Plaza South - 3:00 pm 3:50 pm College Introduction to the Casino Gaming Industry Sheraton Hotel Red Carpet - 3:00 pm 3:50 pm College How to Become a Successful Chapter Sheraton Hotel 3:00 pm 3:50 pm How to Get Hired in Information Technology Room 16 Professional Indigenizing Voice AI: Using Alexa Skills to 3:00 pm 3:50 pm Propagate and Preserve Native American Room 17 Pre-College Cultures, Part 2 of 2 Factors that Influence Native Americans’ 3:00 pm 3:50 pm Interests and Aspirations for Engineering Faculty Room 18 General Positions 3:00 pm 3:50 pm TEK Is The Way! Room 19 General 3:00 pm 3:50 pm Understanding your Personal Work Style Room 20 Professional LGBT Rainbow Gathering/Talking Circle Professional, 3:00 pm 4:30 pm Ballroom B College, Pre- (All Welcome) College Professional, 3:30 pm 4:30 pm Women’s Talking Circle (All Welcome) Ballroom D College, Pre- College Professional, 3:30 pm 4:30 pm Men’s Talking Circle (All Welcome) Ballroom E College, Pre- College One Broadway 3:45 pm 5:00 pm Government Relations Council (GRC) Meeting Ballroom - Sheraton Professional Hotel Food Sovereignty in Native America: Bringing Grand Avenue - 4:00 pm 4:50 pm Pre-College Our Foods Back Renaissance Hotel Kingkade Room - 4:00 pm 4:50 pm Pre-College College for Free: Tips for Securing Funding Renaissance Hotel Aiming Your Arrow- setting a course during Plaza North - 4:00 pm 4:50 pm College college to your “real-world” transition Sheraton Hotel High-Tech Apps: Creating New Tools for Tribal Plaza South - 4:00 pm 4:50 pm College Communities & Public Safety Sheraton Hotel The Power of Indigenous Knowledges - Moving Red Carpet - 4:00 pm 4:50 pm College From Collecting to Respectful Use Sheraton Hotel 4:00 pm 4:50 pm Are you cooperating, teaming, or collaborating? Room 16 Professional 4:00 pm 4:50 pm I-Spy: A Native American CIA Officer’s Story Room 17 General

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Start Time End Time Session name Location Session Tracks Sexual & Gender Minority Research Activities at 4:00 pm 4:50 pm Room 18 General NIH 4:00 pm 4:50 pm What Graduate School Can Do for Your Future Room 19 College Our Journey from Interns to Engineers at GE 4:00 pm 4:50 pm Room 20 Professional Aviation Biltmore - Professional, 5:00 pm 6:00 pm Veteran’s Caucus Renaissance Hotel College Professional, 5:00 pm 7:00 pm Networking Suites - Boeing Suite Room 8 College, Pre- College Professional, 5:00 pm 7:00 pm Networking Suites - Intel Suite Room 7 College, Pre- College Networking Suites - Academia and Research Professional, 5:00 pm 7:00 pm Room 1 College, Pre- sponsored by NSF I-Corp College Networking Suites - Aerospace sponsored by Professional, 5:00 pm 7:00 pm Room 2 College, Pre- Raytheon College Networking Suites - Armed Forces/Intelligence Professional, 5:00 pm 7:00 pm Room 3 College, Pre- sponsored by NSA College Networking Suites - Energy sponsored by Navajo Professional, 5:00 pm 7:00 pm Room 4 College, Pre- Transitional Energy Company College Networking Suites - Food, Agriculture, Natural Professional, 5:00 pm 7:00 pm Room 5 College, Pre- Resources and GeoScience sponsored by NRCS College Professional, 5:00 pm 7:00 pm Networking Suites - Health and Medical Science Room 10 College, Pre- College Networking Suites - Manufacturing and Professional, 5:00 pm 7:00 pm Room 12 College, Pre- Consumer Goods sponsored by 3M College Professional, 5:00 pm 7:00 pm Networking Suites - Tech, Telecom and Gaming Room 11 College, Pre- College Professional, 5:00 pm 7:00 pm Networking Suites - Transportation Room 9 College, Pre- College Judges Orientation - Undergraduate and High Grand Avenue - 6:00 pm 7:00 pm School Student Research Presentations Renaissance Hotel Judges Orientation - Graduate Student Research Kingkade Room - 6:00 pm 7:00 pm Presentations Renaissance Hotel Gemstone Reception (Sponsors & Invitation Century Ballroom - 7:30 pm 9:00 pm Only) Sheraton Hotel

2018 AISES National Conference Program 2018 AISES National Conference Program 19 AGENDA FRIDAY OCTOBER 5 Start Time End Time Session name Location Session Tracks Morning Blessing Ceremony with the AISES 7:00 am 7:45 am Room 4 & 5 Elders 7:00 am 5:00 pm AISES Merchandise Booth Ballroom Lobby 7:00 am 5:00 pm Conference Registration Ballroom Lobby Professional, 7:30 am 5:00 pm Resume Room Room 6 College, Pre- College College, Pre- 8:00 am 9:30 am Exhibit Hall Poster Presentation Setup College Canadian Indigenous Advisory Council (CIAC) Biltmore - 8:00 am 10:00 am Professional Meeting Renaissance Hotel Professional, 9:00 am 5:00 pm College and Career Fair Exhibit Hall College, Pre- College A Voice for Tribes within the National Institutes Grand Avenue - 9:30 am 10:20 am General of Health (NIH) Renaissance Hotel 9:30 am 10:20 am Why Every Tribal Building should be Net Zero Room 16 STEM & Business From Reservation to Higher Education: An 9:30 am 10:20 am Interactive Curriculum Development for Native Room 17 Educator Students Math Circles: STEMulating Indigenous 9:30 am 10:20 am Room 18 Educator Participation College, Pre- 9:30 am 5:00 pm Exhibit Hall Poster Presentations College Convention Center 10:00 am 6:00 pm Native Artisan Marketplace 1st Floor Biltmore - 10:30 am 11:20 am Educator Pre-College Advisors Meeting Renaissance Hotel 10:30 am 11:20 am Job One: Define Your Market Room 16 STEM & Business Ethnoscience Strategies to Indigenize Science 10:30 am 11:20 am at Tribal Colleges: Connecting to the Tribal Room 17 Educator Community When you thrive, we all thrive: Creating a model 10:30 am 11:20 am for Native American student success and support Room 18 Educator in STEM fields Funding Opportunities at the National Institutes 10:30 am 11:20 am Room 2 General of Health Professional, 11:30 am 12:45 pm College and Career Fair Lunch Exhibit Hall College, Pre- College 1:00 pm 1:50 pm Be the Future by Learning from the Past Room 11 General Opportunities Through American Indian 1:00 pm 1:50 pm Room 16 STEM & Business Business Leaders (AIBL) STEM & Business

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Start Time End Time Session name Location Session Tracks STEM Challenge: Keeping Students Engaged 1:00 pm 1:50 pm Room 17 Educator with Problem Solving Teach Computer Science, Computational 1:00 pm 1:50 pm Thinking and Engineering using Hands on Room 18 Educator Robotics So You Want To Be A Hacker? (Introduction to 2:00 pm 2:50 pm Room 10 Professional and Advice for a Career In Cybersecurity) Experience E-Textiles - a hands on way to teach 2:00 pm 2:50 pm Room 17 Educator computer science Lighting the Way: Connecting Indigenous 2:00 pm 2:50 pm Room 18 Educator Students with STEM 2:00 pm 2:50 pm Finding NEMO - The Nerd Is Strong In This One Room 2 Pre-College This is Native Health Jeopardy! With the Native 2:00 pm 2:50 pm Room 3 Pre-College American Center for Health Professions Fostering a culture of collaboration in STEM 2:00 pm 2:50 pm Room 9 Professional facilities Indigeneering™ STEAM: Integrating Modern 3:00 pm 3:50 pm Engineering with Indigenous Wisdom to Co- Room 10 Professional create A Harmonious and Sustainable Future Exploring Science and Technology on the 3:00 pm 3:50 pm Room 17 Educator International Space Station Why Teach Computer Science and Engagement 3:00 pm 3:50 pm Room 18 Educator Practices to Make it Stick 3:00 pm 3:50 pm 5 Steps Guide to Paying for College Room 2 Pre-College Language Preservation: Indigenize Your Career 3:00 pm 3:50 pm Room 3 Pre-College Field 3:00 pm 3:50 pm Heart to Heart with an AISES Elder Room 9 Professional Native Women in Energy Workforce: Resilience & 4:00 pm 4:50 pm Room 10 Professional Leadership Developing an Indigenous Mentoring Program; 4:00 pm 4:50 pm Training Faculty to Mentor American Indian Room 17 Educator Graduate Students in STEM Engaging Native American Students in Exploring 4:00 pm 4:50 pm Room 18 Educator the Ocean Come Learn The 5 W’s of How to Have an Exciting 4:00 pm 4:50 pm Career with the United States Department of Room 2 Pre-College Agriculture (USDA) 4:00 pm 4:50 pm Finding NEMO - A Science Fair Odyssey Room 3 Pre-College Leading without a Script: Leadership Mindsets 4:00 pm 4:50 pm Room 9 Professional Inspired by Improv Comedy 5:00 pm 6:00 pm Exhibitor Feedback Session Exhibit Hall

2018 AISES National Conference Program 2018 AISES National Conference Program 21 AGENDA FRIDAY OCTOBER 5 Start Time End Time Session name Location Session Tracks 5:00 pm 6:00 pm Pre-College Student Caucus Room 2 Pre-College 5:00 pm 6:00 pm College Student Region 1 Caucus Room 3 College 5:00 pm 6:00 pm College Student Region 2 Caucus Room 9 College 5:00 pm 6:00 pm College Student Region 3 Caucus Room 10 College 5:00 pm 6:00 pm College Student Region 4 Caucus Room 11 College 5:00 pm 6:00 pm College Student Region 5 Caucus Room 16 College 5:00 pm 6:00 pm College Student Region 6 Caucus Room 17 College 5:00 pm 6:00 pm College Student Region 7 Caucus Room 18 College 6:00 pm 9:30 pm Exhibitor Move Out for College and Career Fair Exhibit Hall Professional Members Dinner (ticket purchase Century Ballroom - 7:00 pm 9:00 pm Professional required) Sheraton Hotel College, Pre- 8:00 pm 10:30 pm Grand Ballroom Student Social Event College SATURDAY OCTOBER 6 Start Time End Time Session name Location Session Tracks Century Ballroom - 6:30 am 7:00 am Sequoyah Breakfast Check-In Sheraton Hotel Sequoyah Breakfast for Sequoyah Members Century Ballroom - 7:00 am 9:15 am (RSVP Required) Sheraton Hotel 7:00 am 12:00 pm Conference Registration Ballroom Lobby Interested in Engineering and Engineering Huckins Room - 8:00 AM 05:00 PM Faculty Careers? Participate in a Research Focus Renaissance Hotel Group Air Force Civilian Service: Internships and Job Kingkade Room - 9:30 am 10:20 am College Opportunities Renaissance Hotel 9:30 am 10:20 am Corporate Intrapreneur Room 1 STEM & Business 9:30 am 10:20 am Building a Strong Resume, presented by Google Room 10 College IAn Introvert’s Guide to Networking in the IT 9:30 am 10:20 am Room 11 College Industry (DIHD) Morphology of a Geoscience Career: Meanders, 9:30 am 10:20 am Room 12 College Eruptions, and Stories 9:30 am 10:20 am Looking Inward to Empower Your Career Room 15 Professional Career Planning Tools for Graduate Students and 9:30 am 10:20 am Room 17 Professional Postdocs in STEM Disciplines Diversifying the Workforce and Opportunities at 9:30 am 10:20 am Room 18 General NIH Indigenous Data Sovereignty: How Scientists 9:30 am 10:20 am and Researchers Can Empower Indigenous Data Room 19 General Governance

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Start Time End Time Session name Location Session Tracks Increasing Retention through a College Bridge 9:30 am 10:20 am Room 2 Pre-College Program for Underrepresented Students in STEM 9:30 am 10:20 am Coding with Sphero Robotics Room 20 Educator Why Our Communities Need more Native 9:30 am 10:20 am Room 3 Pre-College Architects and Engineers Choosing a Career in Severe Weather Research: 9:30 am 10:20 am Room 9 College What are the Options? Simulation Experience: Medical Response to Grand Avenue - 9:30 am 3:20 pm General Natural Disaster Renaissance Hotel 10:00 am 4:00 pm AISES Merchandise Booth Ballroom Lobby Convention Center 10:00 am 5:30 pm Native Artisan Marketplace 1st Floor College Readiness: Stories from Real Students Kingkade Room - 10:30 am 11:20 am Pre-College and Real Life Renaissance Hotel Blockchain Overview - Understanding 10:30 am 11:20 am Blockchain and Exploring Potential Use Cases in Room 1 STEM & Business Native Communities 10:30 am 11:20 am Heart to Heart with an AISES Elder Room 10 College 10:30 am 11:20 am NASA Listening Session 1: Storytelling Room 11 College 10:30 am 11:20 am Scholarship Apps; Tips and Tricks Room 12 College There is no syllabus for your career: How to 10:30 am 11:20 am Room 15 Professional manage your career so it doesn’t manage you 10:30 am 11:20 am IllumiNative: Reclaiming Native Truth Room 16 General Succeed by creating a Great Organizational 10:30 am 11:20 am Room 17 Professional Culture! Developing Culturally Relevant Research 10:30 am 11:20 am Room 18 General Proposals Professional, 10:30 am 11:20 am Room 19 AISES Members Meeting College 10:30 am 11:20 am Smart Girls Rock Room 2 Pre-College Earth, Wind, Fire... Aquaponics! - Sustainable 10:30 am 11:20 am Room 20 Educator agriculture in the time of Climate Change 10:30 am 11:20 am The Bridge Building Hands-On Activity Room 3 Pre-College A Tribe Called Health: Do You Want to Become A 10:30 am 11:20 am Room 9 College Health Professional? 11:30 am 1:15 pm Lunch Break Professional Awards Luncheon for Students and Advisors Only sponsored by the Emma Bowen College, Pre- 11:30 am 1:15 pm Grand Ballroom Foundation, General Motors and the National College Security Agency

2018 AISES National Conference Program 2018 AISES National Conference Program 23 AGENDA SATURDAY OCTOBER 6 Start Time End Time Session name Location Session Tracks Professional, Biltmore - 1:30 pm 2:20 pm College, Pre- Canadian Members Meeting Renaissance Hotel College Kingkade Room - 1:30 pm 2:20 pm Pre-College Picking Your Top College Renaissance Hotel 1:30 pm 2:20 pm STEM Entrepreneurship Room 1 STEM & Business STEM Opportunities for Tribes: Internship & 1:30 pm 2:20 pm Room 10 STEM & Business Mentorship Program Development Native Youth Forum: Preparing for Future 1:30 pm 2:20 pm Room 11 College Leader…Now! Advancing Energy Sovereignty: Solar Solutions 1:30 pm 2:20 pm Room 12 STEM & Business in an Era of Climate Change 1:30 pm 2:20 pm Quality is Life – Hozhó Applied to Engineering Room 15 Professional 1:30 pm 2:20 pm US National College Student Caucus Room 16 College AISES Professional Members Strategic Plan 1:30 pm 2:20 pm Room 17 Professional Implementation Working to protect the United States, the US 1:30 pm 2:20 pm Room 18 General Intelligence Community Preserving Culture With Technology: Saving 1:30 pm 2:20 pm Room 19 General Dying Languages and Traditions AISES Science and Engineering Fairs: Energy 1:30 pm 2:20 pm Room 2 Pre-College Challenge & NAIVSEF 1:30 pm 2:20 pm The science and craft of negotiating Room 20 Professional 1:30 pm 2:20 pm Construction Careers; Build Your Future Room 3 Pre-College Expanding Education and Scholarship Opportunities at Mayo Clinic, featuring an 1:30 pm 2:20 pm Room 9 College ‘accidental’ journey to become a Mayo Clinic Physician Department of Defense SMART Scholarship-for- Biltmore - 2:30 pm 3:20 pm College Service Program Renaissance Hotel Business & Financial Literacy - Where to start 2:30 pm 3:20 pm Room 1 STEM & Business when starting your business 2:30 pm 3:20 pm Show Me the Money: Make Budgets Work for You Room 10 College 2:30 pm 3:20 pm We Are Healers: Your Pathway to Medical School Room 11 College Yes! A career in STEM is for you! Starting your 2:30 pm 3:20 pm career and developing yourself to lead in Room 12 College business and technical environments 2:30 pm 3:20 pm The Journey to AI Room 15 Professional SAIGE Professionals in STEM - Working with 2:30 pm 3:20 pm Room 16 General Tribes

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Start Time End Time Session name Location Session Tracks Leadership Empowerment: Honoring Wisdom & 2:30 pm 3:20 pm Room 17 Professional Guidance of Management Success 2:30 pm 3:20 pm The Human Knot - Inclusive Team Building Room 18 General Working To Become A Successful Professional 2:30 pm 3:20 pm Room 19 General Engineer within the Federal Government 2:30 pm 3:20 pm Name That Tune: Student Success Room 2 Pre-College AISES Science and Engineering Fairs: Energy 2:30 pm 3:20 pm Room 20 Educator Challenge & NAIVSEF You CAN do this! Apply for Scholarships Like A 2:30 pm 3:20 pm Room 3 Pre-College Pro! Career Preparation: Personal Branding and 2:30 pm 3:20 pm Room 9 College Internships with AT&T Fundamentals of Process Improvement: Lean Six Kingkade Room - 2:30 pm 5:00 pm College Sigma White Belt Course Renaissance Hotel Professional, 3:30 pm 5:30 pm Closing Talking Circle Room 4 & 5 College, Pre- College Convention Center 5:30 pm 7:30 pm Native Artisan Marketplace Vendors Move-Out 1st Floor Professional, 6:30 pm 9:00 pm Closing Banquet Grand Ballroom College, Pre- College Professional, 9:00 pm 12:00 am Powwow Exhibit Hall College, Pre- College For the Research Agenda, please go to page 26. Unless noted, all events are in the Cox Convention Center.

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FRIDAY OCTOBER 5 Start Time End Time Session name Location Presenter Type Category

Iñupiaq insights into weather: the value Indigenous 9:30 am 9:50 am Room 10 Professional of traditional science Knowledge Comparison of Accuracy and Precision Between Two Real-Time Location Health 9:30 am 9:50 am Room 2 Graduate Student Systems (RTLS) Systems for Indoors Science Positioning Habitat Ecology of Pileated 9:30 am 9:50 am Woodpeckers on Hoopa Valley Room 3 Graduate Student Biology Reservation Harmonizing individual and community 9:30 am 9:50 am ethics to protect Tribal concerns in Room 9 Graduate Student Biology genomics research The Impact of Data Sovereignty on Kingkade Room American Indian Self-Determination: Computer 9:30 am 10:20 am - Renaissance Graduate Student Science Using Machine Learning to Create GIS Hotel Infrastructure Point Patters for Census Using Tradtional Ecological Knowledge to Protect Wetlands: The Swinomish Indigenous 10:00 am 10:20 am Room 10 Professional Tribe’s Wetlands Cultural Assessment Knowledge Project Aromatase inhibition by the potent Health 10:00 am 10:20 am Room 2 Graduate Student allosteric inhibitor AR13 Science Not My Mascot: The Effects of Prejudice and Native American Mascots on 10:00 am 10:20 am Room 3 Graduate Student Psychology Stereotype Activation and Attitudes toward Native Americans Genetics of evolved resistance to a 10:00 am 10:20 am Room 9 Graduate Student Biology natural yeast parasite How Perception Anticipates and Reflects Grand Avenue 10:30 am 10:50 am - Renaissance Professional Biology Physical Principles Hotel Variable responses of shrimp to ocean Undergraduate 10:30 am 10:50 am Room 10 Biology acidification Student How optical test engineers test a 10:30 am 10:50 am satellite imager -on your smartphone Room 11 Professional Engineering camera- by testing its MTF High Resolution Home Fuel Usage in 10:30 am 10:50 am Rural Alaska Using the Pump Monitor Room 3 Graduate Student Energy Apparatus Reconstructing the Deep History of 10:30 am 10:50 am Room 9 Graduate Student Biology South America

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Using Advanced Technology to Discover Kingkade Room 10:30 am 11:20 am - Renaissance Professional Geoscience the Mound Builders Hotel Using marine fatty acid and stable isotope biomarkers to investigate Undergraduate 11:00 am 11:20 am Room 10 Biology overwintering diets of qavlunayagaat in Student the Unalakleet River watershed Factors for Technological 11:00 am 11:20 am Appropriateness of Renewable Energy Room 3 Graduate Student Energy Options in Indian Country Mathematical Modelling of Avian 11:00 am 11:20 am Room 9 Graduate Student Biology Malaria in Hawaiian Honeycreepers Advancing condition assessment practice for civil engineering 11:00 am 11:20 pm Room 11 Professional Engineering infrastructure systems with photogrammetry-based techniques Siboka: a next generation scientific Grand Avenue Computer 1:00 pm 1:20 pm - Renaissance Professional computing workflow toolkit at Science Lawrence Livermore Laboratory Hotel Extraction of Droplet Genealogies from Physical 1:00 pm 1:20 pm Room 10 Graduate Student High-Fidelity Atomization Simulations Science A comparison of two different Undergraduate 1:00 pm 1:20 pm Room 2 Biology aquaponic systems and a raised bed for Student pak choi production Using nanofiltration membrane technology and electrochemical 1:00 pm 1:20 pm Room 3 Graduate Student Engineering adsorption to remove uranium from groundwater in the Navajo Nation When is bacteriocin production 1:00 pm 1:20 pm beneficial for the bacterial Room 9 Graduate Student Biology phytopathogen Pseudomonas syringae? Wy’East: Creating a pathway into Kingkade Room Oregon Health and Science University Health 1:00 pm 1:50 pm - Renaissance Professional Science School of Medicine for American Indians Hotel and Alaskan Natives TEK and Tech: Building a Culturally Responsive Curriculum for Nimiipuu STEM 1:30 pm 1:50 pm Room 10 Graduate Student (Nez Perce) High School and Middle Education School Students Body Size and Flight Performance in the Undergraduate 1:30 pm 1:50 pm Room 2 Biology Native Pollinator, Osmia lignaria, Blue Student Orchard Bee

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FRIDAY OCTOBER 5 Start Time End Time Session name Location Presenter Type Category Designing Manufacturing Sites Toward Local Sustainability by Understanding 1:30 pm 1:50 pm Spatial Variance of Industrial Air Room 3 Graduate Student Engineering Pollution and Local Ecosystem Regulation Improving Cell-Free Protein Synthesis 1:30 pm 1:50 pm Room 9 Graduate Student Biology for Rapid Screening Applications Classification of First-Year Arctic Sea Grand Avenue Undergraduate 2:00 pm 2:20 pm - Renaissance Geoscience Ice using Spaceborne Hyperspectral Student Imagery Hotel Kingkade Room Plant Perspectives of Biodiversity in an Undergraduate 2:00 pm 2:20 pm - Renaissance Biology Student Endangered Landscape Hotel Investigation of coliform contamination Natural 2:00 pm 2:20 pm Room 11 Graduate Student in private well water on the Crow Resources Reservation Grand Avenue Ocean Acidification Toolkits: Keeping Undergraduate STEM 2:30 pm 2:50 pm - Renaissance Student Education Ocean Acidification in the Public Eye Hotel Altering Cell Wall Components Increases Kingkade Room Undergraduate 2:30 pm 2:50 pm - Renaissance Biology Beneficial Fungal Colonization of Rice Student Roots Hotel Jocko Prairie -- Change Detection Natural 2:30 pm 2:50 pm Room 11 Graduate Student Assessment Resources Kingkade Room Utilization of Intel’s OpenVINO Undergraduate Computer 3:00 pm 3:20 pm - Renaissance Student Science Computer Vision Toolkit Hotel Informing Oregon’s Marine Protected Indigenous 3:00 pm 3:20 pm Room 11 Graduate Student Area (MPA) Baseline: Past and Present Knowledge Tribal Uses of Marine Resources Grazing as a Tool to Reduce Wildfire Risk 3:00 pm 3:20 pm Room 16 Graduate Student Biology at Puʻu Waʻawaʻa Forest Reserve Using Technology to Preserve Grand Avenue Indigenous 3:00 pm 3:50 pm - Renaissance Professional and Protect Traditional Ecological Knowledge Knowledge Hotel Kingkade Room Undergraduate Computer 3:30 pm 3:50 pm - Renaissance Markov Chain Detection Student Science Hotel What is the Role of Culture in Restoring Indigenous 3:30 pm 3:50 pm Room 11 Graduate Student Ecosystems? Knowledge

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Start Time End Time Session name Location Presenter Type Category Using herbicides to control an invasive 3:30 pm 3:50 pm annual grass, Ventenata dubia, in Room 16 Graduate Student Biology southwestern Montana The Mechanism of FOXO1 Nuclear Kingkade Room Undergraduate 4:00 pm 4:20 pm - Renaissance Biology Translocation during Embryo Student Implantation Hotel Using an Indigenous methodology to Indigenous 4:00 pm 4:20 pm Room 11 Graduate Student assess past present and future water Knowledge sources in the Cho’ho’tsoi Valley Elucidating the Regulation of Delayed- Health 4:00 pm 4:20 pm Room 16 Graduate Student Early Genes by Sustained MAP Kinase Science Pathway Activation Drug Screening for Potential Kingkade Room Undergraduate Health 4:30 pm 4:50 pm - Renaissance Adrenoleukodystrophy Treatments Student Science Using a Zebrafish Disease Model Hotel The Scientific Method according to Diné Knowledge and its application to Indigenous 4:30 pm 4:50 pm Room 11 Graduate Student addressing water contamination in Diné Knowledge Communities For the General Agenda, please go to page 16. Unless noted, all events are in the Cox Convention Center.

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3M Student Luncheon - sponsored by 3M A Voice for Tribes within the National Join 3M and 500 of your closet friends for lunch and an Institutes of Health (NIH) interactive experience! Dr. David Wilson 5 Steps Guide to Paying for College National Institutes of Health Tribal Health Research Office Mrs. Deborah Easter In this session, attendees will learn about the Tribal Health Research Office at the National Institutes of Health Wells Fargo Advisors established in 2015. Pursuant to Presidential Executive The five steps include: Step 1: Complete the FAFSA (Free Order No. 13175, November 6, 2000, and the Presidential Application for Federal Student Aid) Step 2: Apply for memoranda of September 23, 2004, and November 5, 2009, scholarships Step 3: Estimate and compare your total college the United States Department of Health and Human Services costs Step 4: Determine if you need additional money for (HHS) adopted a Tribal Consultation Policy that applies to college Step 5: Explore additional college financing options. all HHS operating and staff divisions, including the NIH. The Booklets will be provided during the class. the booklets include HHS Tribal Consultation Policy directs divisions to establish several college financing tools and resources. a process to ensure accountable, meaningful, and timely A Road-map To A Career In STEM: input by Tribal officials in the development of policies that Planning the Routes, Discovering have Tribal implications. As the first NIH office focused on the Detours, and Locating Roadside tribal health, the office targets research efforts where the needs are greatest within native communities and establishes Assistance consistent research protocols with the ICs that will ultimately Dr. Susan VanderKam benefit research in tribal communities and investigators alike. Princeton University Advancing Energy Sovereignty: Ms. Meredith LaSalle-Tarantin Princeton University Solar Solutions in an Era of Climate Change The path to a STEM career can be daunting, but with a roadmap in hand the route can be less intimidating. This Timothy E. Horan session will focus on navigating the process of earning a Spokane Indian Housing Authority bachelor’s degree in science or engineering while keeping an Adam Bad Wound eye on future career goals. Knowing what training is required Vice President of Development, GRID Alternatives for specific careers, and how to obtain the experience needed Cora Gaane is a key to success. Potential detours and roadblocks along Senior Relationship Manager and National Tribal Advocate, the educational path will be addressed, and tools for finding Enterprise Diversity Inclusion & Strategic Philanthropy, Wells alternate routes will be developed. Students will develop Fargo Bank their own basic career map, and learn how to overcome GRID Alternatives’ National Tribal Program has worked since potential obstacles along the way. 2010 to help tribal communities across the United States A Tribe Called Health: Do You Want to achieve their renewable energy goals. Using a community- Become A Health Professional? centric approach, we partner with Tribes to identify, develop, finance and implement solar power projects that meet Ms. Danielle Yancey community needs, including education, hands-on training, Native American Center for Health Professions- University of and energy cost reductions for tribal members. The Spokane Wisconsin- Madison Tribe in Wellpinit, Washington, will be the first to benefit Ms. Elizabeth Lyons from the newly funded Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund at GRID Michigan State University supported by Wells Fargo Bank, with a grant that will unlock Did you know that Native Americans are underrepresented third-party investment capital and $1 million in matching in the health professions? Have you ever wondered what funds from the Department of Energy for a 637-kilowatt solar you can do to improve the health and well being of our project. When complete, the project will provide clean power people? Do you have questions about what you need to do and reduced energy bills for 14 tribal buildings, including to become a health professional? Join this session to learn elder housing, community facilities and tribal administrative about health professional programs, steps you can take now offices. to begin planning your future, and meet other students on a similar journey to join the community of Native American healers and health professionals. Leave this session with an action plan in hand to help you take one step closer to achieving your goals!

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Aiming Your Arrow - setting a course We would like to ask all professional members to engage in during college to your “real-world” this process to ensure thoughts are captured as we execute transition on our long term vision. Mr. James Leatham AISES Science and Engineering Fairs: Raytheon Energy Challenge & NAIVSEF Clubs, leadership, athletics, academics, GPA: we’ve all jumped Mr. Duane Matt through those hoops to greater or lesser success, but now Division of Energy and Mineral Development what? Set your trajectory towards a fulfilling career by Ms. Chelsea Chee preparing now for the “real world.” Aim towards your self- AISES defined goal, don’t just rack up “resume points.” In this session, we work together to brainstorm how to define our top career This session is to announce the launch of the 2017-2018 goals and how to set ourselves up, while still in college, on Energy Challenge and National American Indian Science and the path to achieving them. What do I really want to do? Can I Engineering Fair (NAISEF)! We encourage teachers interested find a job that lets me do that? The answer is often “yes,” if we in supporting STEM research to attend this informational set about it correctly. This session will introduce a few tools session! The Energy Challenge is an energy-specific virtual to help influence that outcome, and provide the participants science fair designed to engage and encourage high school with some exercises to illustrate. Participants will come away and middle school students to participate in the science with a better awareness of their ability to set their own course and engineering research process. Representatives from the on their college-to-career transition, and with practice using Division of Energy and Mineral Development, past Energy tools to build confidence in influencing that outcome. Challenge mentors, and AISES staff will provide background and helpful information to support your development of Air Force Civilian Service: Internships and a winning Energy Challenge project. AISES staff will also Job Opportunities promote NAIVSEF and provide helpful information to ensure Dr. Wes Venters teachers have the tools to support student participation in Learn about the exciting job and internship opportunities AISES’ fairs. Join us to learn more about these amazing AISES with the Air Force Civilian Service. opportunities! AISES Marketplace Booth: AISES Pre- American Indian/Alaska Native Health College Opportunities Professional Perspectives in United Public AISES’ STEM Activity Day Marketplace booth will feature AISES Health Service Pre-College opportunities from science fairs to scholarship Mr. Dodson Frank applications. Students will learn how to engage in STEM American Indian/Alaska Native Commissioned Officers Advisory research, prepare for college, and access AISES resources Committee made specifically for them. Come visit with AISES staff! Meet American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) health professionals from different health disciplines serving in the AISES Members Meeting United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps All AISES members are welcome to participate in the annual (USPHS). The Commissioned Corps is a diverse team of more update from the corporate officers the board. than 6,400 highly qualified, public health professionals. AISES Professional Members Strategic Driven by a passion to serve the underserved, these AI/AN officers fill essential public health leadership and clinical Plan Implementation service roles with the Nation’s Federal Government agencies The Professional Development Committee (PDC) is charged including the Indian Health Service. Hear why and how with engaging AISES professional membership to analyze, they became health professionals in their field, their career define and lay out areas of value and paths for involvement journey, and experiences serving their native communities. that support the continued mission of AISES and allow for continued personal and professional growth and fulfillment An Introvert’s Guide to Networking in the IT among our members that encourages life-long involvement Industry (DIHD) and engagement. To this end a strategic plan was developed Introverts. The inward-facing. The introspective. Those in 2017, which included a ten-year vision centered around who are energized by time to themselves, which often professional development, enrichment, and connection to results in their best ideas. It is hard enough for introverts to culture. Over the past year the PDC has worked to develop a engage in small talk – to open up and let strangers in. Let programing plan around professional development that will alone to accomplish this feat in a world where technology be presented. In addition, the PDC is seeking input on how is so pervasive that everyone is an expert but few have best to address the other two aspects of our ten year vision. demonstrated mastery. This workshop will focus on

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strategies to help introverts emerge from their shell and push Blockchain Overview - Understanding themselves into unfamiliar waters in order to ensure that their Blockchain and Exploring Potential Use voice is heard, and to achieve boundless success. Cases in Native Communities Are you cooperating, teaming, or Mrs. Tara Astigarraga collaborating? IBM Mr. Frank Johnson Ms. Mallory Anderson Hope for Family and Business Prosperity, LLC IBM This session is designed to highlight the differences Ms. Sandra Hope among cooperation, teamwork, and collaboration. IBM Cooperation, teamwork, and collaboration are often used Blockchain is a revolutionary technology with tremendous interchangeably. However, the differences among the industry buzz and promise to disrupt nearly all industries terms need to be clarified. Cooperation involves a one-to- in the coming years. It has been suggested that Blockchain one exchange of something or quid pro quo. Teamwork will do for transaction processing what the internet did for involves individuals working towards a common goal such information. In this session, we will demystify Blockchain as softball players in their isolated positions trying to do focusing on a brief introduction and how the technology can their part to win the game. Collaboration is not only working improve and increase efficiencies in business processes across together, but thinking together over a situation. This session industries. This session will also include an interactive activity will have interactive, hands-on, and real-time activities that identifying and examining potential use-cases and areas that demonstrate the differences among the terms. Some session Blockchain solutions could help within Native Communities. activities include: 1) Participating in team-building games. 2) Writing a paragraph in response to a prompt. 3) Using blocks Boeing DreamLearners to build a stable structure. ​Participants will take away a more Mr. Stephen West informed approach to structuring and participating in groups. The Boeing Company Awards Luncheon for Students and Mr. Beau Williams Advisors Only The Boeing Company This special luncheon for students and advisors is to DreamLearners provides students: · Introduction to the 787 recognize the AISES academic and travel scholars and the Dreamliner program and our production process · Overview winners of the 2018 AISES National Conference Research of aerodynamics and flight (Lift, Weight, Drag and Thrust) · competition. Additional awards will be announced by AISES Paper airplane team building competition - students design, partners. build and fly a paper airplane - all on schedule and within budget. Just as in the Boeing production system, each Be the Future by Learning from the Past student has a specific role to play that contributes to the Dr. Clifton Poodry team’s success, be it mechanic, finance manager, engineer, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) supplier management, or pilot. With a deep commitment to increasing the number of Native Building a Strong Resume, presented by people in science, Dr. Clifton Poodry (Seneca) has spent his Google life opening doors and illuminating the pathway for Native people in science. In this session, Dr. Poodry will provide Mr. Zach Harris Google unique insight and inspiration to those who are considering, or are currently undertaking, a career path in the biological Google receives tens of thousands of resumes every year! sciences. Through the sharing of his own experience of Come learn about what makes a resume standout as we go navigating a challenging and successful career in a field over best practices during this session, which we will also where there are far too few Native people, Dr. Poodry will apply to our own resumes. Time will be reserved to learn inspire and motivate attendees in their own journeys while about the application process for Google roles as well. also providing sound and practical advice. Canadian Members Meeting All Canadian AISES members and conference attendees are welcome to meet up to network and discuss potential future opportunities.

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Career Planning Tools for Graduate Choosing a Career in Severe Weather Students and Postdocs in STEM Disciplines Research: What are the Options? Dr. Corrie Kuniyoshi Dr. Robert Rabin American Chemical Society NOAA/National Severe Storms Lab Dr. Joerg Schlatterer Dr. Pamela Heinselman American Chemical Society NOAA/National Severe Storms Lab An Individual Development Plan (IDP) is a career planning Dr. Sebastian Torres process where the user evaluates their values and skills, Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, explores available career options, finds resources to improve University of Oklahoma; NOAA their skills, and sets short- and long-term goals. Returning Ms. Jami Boettcher regularly allows them to track accomplisments, set new Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, goals, and refine their career paths. An IDP is also a starting University of Oklahoma; NOAA/National Se point for conversations with mentors, setting the stage for Learn about various career paths available in the field of fruitful discussions. The American Chemical Society (ACS) atmospheric science which studies severe weather including: developed ChemIDPTM, a web-based IDP tool and associated tornadoes, hurricanes, flash floods, lightning, hail, wildfires workshops specifically designed for students and postdocs and winter storms. The range of expertise needed to in the chemical sciences. This presentation will describe how address the challenges in severe weather research provides the IDP process, and ChemIDPTM specifically, can be used by opportunities for students in the physical and social sciences, students in preparing for entry into STEM careers, and also engineering, and computer science. A panel of professionals how faculty mentors can use this process in guiding their working at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric students. Data and feedback from workshops and from online Administration’s (NOAA) National Severe Storms Laboratory users and lessons learned will be presented, as will future and its University of Oklahoma partner, the Cooperative directions in professional development tools. Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies, in Norman, Career Preparation: Personal Branding OK, will share their experiences and address your own and Internships with AT&T personalized questions such as: -What do you enjoy about Mr. Rick Wilson your work and does it meet your expectations? -What are the entry level requirements? -How will I fit in? -What hurdles and AT&T barriers did you encounter? -What internship, scholarship and Ms. Deneen Garrett career opportunities are available? AT&T Ms. Jennifer Terry Closing Banquet AT&T Join us for an unforgettable evening featuring entertainment The goal of the “Preparing for Your Future”, one of Winds of by National award-winning recording artist Kelly Jackson, Change’s Top 50 STEM Employers for Native Americans, is and the presentation of the awards for the 2018 AISES to Share with students the importance of having a strong Professional of the Year, Ely S. Parker, and the AISES Partner personal brand that they will present many times over the Service awards. course of their career and Prepare students to approach their Closing Talking Circle internship as they would a full-time, permanent job while Talking circles provide space to create connections, providing the tools necessary to secure a stellar internship. collaboration, and understanding. Circles can hold the Students will walk away with: A clear understanding of the tensions and emotions necessary for healing and can support concept of building a personal brand, Getting the most out people to use collective energy to take action. The Closing of their internship, A working knowledge of the benefits and Talking Circle is an opportunity to express your conference key qualifications of the AT&T Summer Internship Program. experience with complete freedom, and is an effective way Chemistry Hands-on Experiments to remove barriers and feel the support and community of all other participants during this moving experience. Ms. Victoria Fuentes American Chemical Society Coding with Sphero Robotics The American Chemical Society will conduct 5 hands-on Mr. Layne Rainey experiments for particpants as we did in 2017. Sphero EDU This session will take a introductory look at the Sphero Robotics platform and how it can be used to engage students in STEM and coding. This session will be hands-on and explore the Sphero EDU software and robotic platform. Session attendees can download the Sphero EDU app onto

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their Android and iOS devices prior to the session. There will Construction Careers; Build Your Future be a competition! Ms. Patty Bird College for Free: Tips for Securing Funding NCCER Ms. Genevieve Bennally There are many careers and career pathways in the Raytheon construction industry. Not only does the industry need skilled craft people, but it needs leaders to manage projects and Statistics recently proved that many, talented Native- take construction into the future. Come meet some industry American students in our community are not continuing experts and learn more about these amazing opportunities in their education due to the lack of funding and resources. the construction industry. The number of students is growing every year. As the cost of higher education escalates, the path to education and Corporate Intrapreneur growth seems to move further away. Being Native American Dr. Olester Benson could put you in a favorable position to receive the funding 3M and resources through scholarships. But how does one capture the attention of the review boards throwing free Mr. Mark Fairbanks money to the most competitive applicants? The answer is 3M in learning what is necessary to be competitive. The secrets With the rapid growth of technology in the 21st century, to become a competitive applicant will be revealed from start-ups and entrepreneurs have flooded industries once The Associate Director of The Northern Arizona Native- monopolized by large corporations. How do companies American Foundation. With this knowledge, you can become respond before getting left behind? By joining the trend! competitive for any scholarships you may apply for. Intrapreneurship means using entrepreneurial skills to develop a new product or business within a larger College Readiness: Stories from Real organization, and it is an emerging model for fast corporate Students and Real Life innovation. This session will examine case studies of Student Representatives intrapreneurship from 3M and other large corporations. We AISES will explore best practices to transform intrapreneurship into Join the AISES Student Representatives for a panel-style innovative solutions through concepts from the book “The forum to discuss hints and tips on preparing for and starting Lean Startup” and other real-world examples. college. The representatives will discuss their successes (and Decolonizing STEM – Using Hájíínei Hane’ some failures) while applying, preparing, and leaving for (Traditional Navajo Origin Stories) and college. Attendees will also have the chance to ask questions NASA Astrobiology Science to the panel to help answer questions about this new journey. Ms. Chelsea Chee AISES Come Learn The 5 W’s of How to Have Ms. Dana Desiderio an Exciting Career with the United States Navajo Technical University Department of Agriculture (USDA) Ms. Daniella Scalice Dr. Craig Wilson NASA Astrobiology Program USDA/ARS and Texas A&M University Why should you have to choose between pursuing STEM and Learn how to access information about the world class cultivating your cultural identity? Students, educators, and agricultural and environmental science research taking place professionals are welcome to join this workshop to engage in at the eighty-five USDA/ARS research labs nationwide. Each a hands-on, dual-learning activity that combines Indigenous has a different research focus from aquaculture (fish) to and Western scientific knowledge. Then add your voice to a dryland farming. Access a map that will let you see which conversation about what is truly needed to decolonize STEM! labs and what research is happening in a lab near you. *Note: This hands-on activity includes explanations in Navajo, Receive a template to fill out that will guide you along a though all are welcome and encouraged to participate. possible pathway to a rewarding career in the sciences. It shows what interests, skills and education you will need to Delivering the first exascale progress in your chosen field. Engage in hands-on activities supercomputer: It takes a community that exemplify the essential research being undertaken at Ms. Georgia Sandoval USDA/ARS laboratories and research centers nationwide to Intel Corporation ensure a supply of adequate and nutritious food to support a An exascale supercomputer performs a quintillion world population that is growing exponentially. The world’s (108) calculations per second, fast enough to enable scientific resources are not infinite. Learn how they can be conserved breakthroughs, simulate the expansion of our universe, and with your help as a Future Scientist. handle massive datasets through methods such as machine

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learning. In order to make exascale computing a reality, Developing Culturally Relevant Research thousands of moving parts must be coordinated and brought Proposals together in a magnitude and timeline similar to the moon Dr. Franklin Dollar race. Hear about the team of Intel engineers, scientists, and University of California, Irvine project managers behind the making of a supercomputer and see where you fit in. Interested in graduate school? Becoming a professor? Directing at a nonprofit? Being successful in these tasks not Department of Defense SMART only requires you to participate in new areas of research, but Scholarship-for-Service Program also to be able to fund this research through proposal writing. Mr. Jack Meyer In this hands on session, we will cover what goes into making Department of Defense SMART Scholarship-for-Service Program a successful grant proposal in a manner where we achieve our own goals and the needs of the funding source. This is Mrs. Yasmin Virani particularly useful for upper division undergraduates or first SMART Scholarship-for-Service Program year graduate students applying to fellowships, as well as Ms. Andrea Klinkman early career faculty applying to grants. We will also discuss Department of Defense SMART Scholarship-for-Service Program how to implement cultural relavance in an arena where Department of Defense SMART Scholarship-for-Service many reviewers may not be familiar with tribal traditions or Program Calling all STEM college students! If you are sovereignty. interested in having your tuition paid, receiving a generous stipend, and putting your STEM education to work in a Diversifying the Workforce and diverse, challenging, and rewarding civilian (non-military) Opportunities at NIH career with the Department of Defense, drop everything Dr. Sharon Migram and run to this information session! The Department of National Institutes of Health (NIH) Defense employs some of the most talented and innovative Dr. La Fauve scientists, engineers, researchers, and mathematicians in National Institutes of Health (NIH) the world. YOU can be one of them! Learn about SMART The goals of the workshop are to explain the structure of benefits, the journey from application through employment, the NIH and to empower students to seek support from the and tips for submitting a strong application, and hear why so NIH at appropriate points in their educational journey. The many SMART Scholars call the program “life-changing.” The focus will be on support for students in community college, application period is open only until December 1 so there’s college, and beyond. Programs focused on diversifying the no time to lose. biomedical workforce will be stressed and participants will Developing an Indigenous Mentoring have the opportunity to speak with NIH representatives. Program; Training Faculty to Mentor Earth, Wind, Fire... Aquaponics! - American Indian Graduate Students in Sustainable agriculture in the time of STEM Climate Change Dr. Sweeney Windchief Mr. Kaben Smallwood Montana State University Symbiotic Aquaponic, LLC In order to increase graduation rates of American Indain and Alaska Native doctoral candidates in the STEM (science, Mr. Reese Hundley technology, engineering, and math) fields, a culturally Symbiotic Aquaponic attuned mentorship program needs to be developed. This Aquaponics is a sustainable form of agricultural technology research project uses a conversational method of Indigenous that innately conserves natural resources (water, soil, energy) research that privileges relationships and lived experiences while providing significant outputs such as fish, food, to inform such a program. Data was collected in semi- medicine, and textile crops. In a time of significant climate structured interviews using a conversational guide and change and population growth, aquaponics is a sustainable initial themes were deliberated and refined into a coding technology that will be vital to addressing some of the framework that was subsequently applied to the data. The most basic needs of our communities and environment. themes that emerged from the research include relationality, In this session we will introduce teachers, students, and cultural humility, Indigenous worldviews, suggestions for other professionals to aquaponics, answering both basic activities, and resources/support. These themes established and complex questions about the science behind it while the framework for an Indigenous mentoring program (IMP) exploring its diverse, practical, and imperative roles in our for faculty mentors of AI/AN graduate students in STEM at future. Participants will engage in a critical discussion of the four 4-year institutions and a tribal college. A discussion, conclusion and future research is expanded upon.

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role of aquaponics in schools, classroom curriculum, future Environmental Health Research, and Center for Native careers, community empowerment, and environmental American Environmental Health Equity Research in conservation while also gaining valuable knowledge in how partnership with Tribal Nations. Presenters will discuss to implement and begin an aquaponics curriculum. research investigating secondhand smoke exposure in Lakota communities, the Gold King Mine spill, indoor radon Engaging Native American Students in exposure, and contaminated water and traditional foods in Exploring the Ocean Navajo, Crow, Cheyenne River Sioux and Hopi communities. Mr. David McKinnie Each project trains students in field, laboratory and analytical NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research methods, and aims to increase students’ scientific knowledge Ms. Debi Blaney and skills and their environmental health literacy. The overall NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research goal of this session is to raise awareness about environmental health sciences research, and the important contributions Ms. Susan Haynes that Native American students can make in this field. NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research The NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research Ethnoscience Strategies to Indigenize (OER) education program offers professional development Science at Tribal Colleges: Connecting to workshops for teachers and other educators to use ocean the Tribal Community exploration discoveries to explain key science principles. Dr. Beverly DeVore-Wedding The workshops are intended to help teachers incorporate University of Nebraska-Lincoln ocean examples into their insturction and to give them tools to bring the excitement of ocean exploration and new Ms. Janyce Woodard discoveries to their students.This session is designed to Little Priest Tribal College seek feedback from educators within the Native American The importance of engaging students through hands- community on how to best engage their students with on laboratory experiments and connecting to their the rich content about the ocean that ocean exploration personal experiences cannot be overstated. Specific expeditions provide. community connection information has been provided in the background of each lab, but each lab report provides ENIGMA students the opportunity to share their own personal Mr. Paul Marynowski connection. Why community connections? Connecting NSA chemistry content to students’ a prior knowledge, authentic Introduction and demonstration of WW II encryption phenomenon, and culturally-relevant topics increases the machine ENIGMA, and the role diversity played in solving learning of new content. The community connection section a very complex problem. Talk will identify and explain the of each lab only scratches the surface of the tribal community hardware, the people, and the hurdles faced in creating connections. The sharing of their own connections will enrich ENIGMA. Session will incorporate relevance for today and the authenticity of the chemistry as well as your instructor’s infomation on STEM careers at NSA. and classmates own knowledge. How we used Ethnoscience to enhance chemistry lab instruction and experience will be Environmental Health Sciences is for You! demonstrated, including engaging the audience’s sharing of Dr. Symma Finn their own experiences curriculum indigenization. National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences Expanding Education and Scholarship Dr. Karletta Chief Opportunities at Mayo Clinic, featuring University of Arizona an ‘accidental’ journey to become a Mayo Dr. Patricia Nez Henderson Clinic Physician Black Hills Center for American Indian Health Dr. Jonathan Baines Dr. Joseph Hoover Mayo Clinic University of New Mexico Ms. Marcy Averill Mr. Sheldwin Yazzie Mayo Clinic Albuquerque Area Southwest Tribal Epidemiology Center and University of New Mexico Ms. Margaret Dougherty Mayo Clinic An important goal of environmental health sciences is to address Tribal environmental health disparities in Mayo Clinic will share plans to continue our partnerships collaboration with Tribal Nations. This session highlights with AISES and other organizations to improve health environmental health studies conducted by scientists outcomes, educational opportunities, and workforce and Native American students at the Black Hills Center pipelines. Mayo Clinic has publicly acknowledged its for American Indian Health, the Center for Indigenous painful history with American Indians, has committed to

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reconciliation efforts, and has begun creating programs Factors that Influence Native Americans’ in response to community requests. These new programs Interests and Aspirations for Engineering will support American Indian and Alaska Native learners in Faculty Positions perpetuity, seek to eliminate health disparities, and ensure that American Indians/Alaska Natives are a strong part of the Dr. Sherri Turner future health workforce – whether at home, in major research University of Minnesota - Twin Cities institutions, or somewhere in between. In a very open and Dr. Sue Jacobs honest discussion of the challenges on educational and Oklahoma State University professional development paths, Mayo Clinic’s first American Dr. Gale Mason-Chagil Indian/Alaska Native MD/PhD graduate will share how he Cultural Inquiry Consultants, LLC ‘accidentally’ became a Mayo Clinic physician and how these Dr. Mark Bellcourt programs will help students like him to succeed. The session University of Minnesota will seek input from and discussion with participants. ​ Dr. Jim Smay Experience E-Textiles - a hands on way to Oklahoma State University teach computer science Dr. Nicole Colston Ms. Leslie Aaronson Oklahoma State University National Center for Women & Information Technology Dr. Sarah Johnson Are you looking to bring new STEM experiences to students, Oklahoma State University and interested in trying something new? Come learn how Native American faculty are critical to attracting Native to make wearable, programmable electronics, also known American students into the engineering profession. We are as e-textiles and receive lessons and materials to bring the investigating factors related to Native Americans’ pursuit projects back to your community. This will be a hands on of engineering and the engineering faculty. In a sample of workshop where you will learn to make a light up name card student participants, we have found that initiative, resiliency, and receive the lessons and materials to bring back to your leadership, and proactivity are key. Interests in this career community. You will also receive resources from the National path are related to efficacy (confidence) for addressing Center for Women & Information Technology about how to engineering problems, access to information regarding recruit and engage underrepresented students into STEM and engineering careers, academic success, encouragement computing classes. from others, and beliefs about the meaningfulness, value, Exploring Science and Technology on the and usefulness of pursuing engineering and the engineering International Space Station professorate. In a sample of faculty members, enthusiasm for investigating questions of interest in their engineering Ms. Barbara Lewis fields, and solving problems experienced in their tribal NASA communities, sustain their interest. The love of teaching This session is designed for educators to explore and mentoring students are also very important. Audience the International Space Station (ISS) as a learning members will be invited to participate and to provide laboratory. During this session, participants will take a insights about how Native Americans are inspired to study tour through the top web resources available to them to engineering and become engineering faculty. enhance their lesson plans. They will have the opportunity to experience the Space Station Google Goggle Expedition Financial Management: Sources of Funding and learn how they can bring lessons from Space into their for Graduate School and Beyond classrooms. Attendees will learn how they can follow the Dr. Megan Dunn latest activities happening on the ISS, have access to the latest news on science investigations, and find graphics and Ms. Chris O’Brien videos that can be used in conjunction with course lectures Dr. Megan Dunn and Ms. Chris O’Brien will discuss funding on science, earth observation and technology development. mechanisms for graduate school. In particular, they have Teachers and students will have access to how NASA and first-hand knowledge of fellowship preparation and commercial entities are using the benefits of the space submission. Information will be shared on the application station’s low-earth orbit to make new discoveries and test process and tips will be shared for preparing a competitive technologies that not only benefit earth now, but also fellowship application. Both Dr. Dunn and Ms. O’Brien know prepare us to explore deep space. the Ford Foundation Fellowship Program well and will provide information on that program, and other competitive fellowship programs, and answer questions asked. They plan an interactive session and look forward to providing first- hand advice to attendees.

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Finding NEMO - A Science Fair Odyssey After attracting and developing talent, a 2017 survey by Ms. MRutheyi Thompson R&D Magazine ranked “Building an Innovation Culture” U.S. Bureau of Reclamation as the number one priority for R&D Operations. The top 3 reasons why Scientists and Engineers collaborate is Finding NEMO (New, Exciting & Motivating Opportunities) - A for access to expertise, equipment, and facilities. Great Science Fair Odyssey With the classes and homework, who STEM programs are a confluence of resources, ideas and really has time for entering a science fair and what good will people and this presentation will outline the framework it do anyway? The answers will surprise you! Come find out common to successfully building a culture of collaboration why entering in science fairs not only will boost your college and innovation. This will be a mixed session format of application potential but will also benefit your success in your presentation and benchmarking as well as an open forum high school classes. You will even discover how an idea that for students and professionals to share their experience seems silly can become a science fair project that changes on creating and nurture an environment conducive to lives! Walk away with tips for outstanding science fair entries collaboration. and insights into what judges look for in exhibits, papers and interviews. From Reservation to Higher Education: An Finding NEMO - The Nerd Is Strong In This Interactive Curriculum Development for One Native Students Ms. MRutheyi Thompson Mr. Michael Charles The Ohio State University U.S. Bureau of Reclamation In alignment with the mission of AISES, this session will aim Finding NEMO (New, Exciting & Motivating Opportunities) - to increase the representation of indigenous peoples in The Nerd Is Strong In This One. Have you felt drawn to finding higher education through an interactive, facilitated discussion out how things work or how they are built? Do you have a that will focus on curriculum development for high school strong desire to find solutions to concrete problems? Do you students. In order to make higher education more accessible like wiring schematics? Do you look longingly at chemical and familiar, this discussion will bring together educators processing plants or compressor stations? Do you wish you together to discuss not only the obstacles Native students could heal the land after an environmental accident? Do you face in their academic journey, but also focus on the values like math and science but are not sure it’s ‘cool’ to admit it? and advantages that our indigenous cultures lend our youth Then come see if The Nerd is Strong in you and if you might to help reach their educational successes. From the strong be an “enginerd”! sense of community to the unique holistic worldviews of our Food Sovereignty in Native America: elders, our cultures should be tools that propel us towards Bringing Our Foods Back graduation. This session will bring together people who work Ms. Jacquelyn Ross with indigenous students to discuss what information and University of California, Davis resources should be spread across Indian Country to ensure our increased representation progresses. Our Native foodways are among our most enduring tribal traditions. Many of our delicious foods have been From Resume Writing to Maximizing Your incorporated into cuisines around the world. Here at home, Career Fair Experience, What You Need to we now face a variety of food issues in our communities Know that touch the areas of health, environmental science, and Ms. Joni Graves protection of heirloom foods and community knowledge. Chevron Corporation We need students with strong STEM power to help resolve these issues. Come see and touch examples of Native foods; Ms. Yvonne Deffenbaugh-Houghton learn about the challenges to keep our foods alive; and see Chevron Corporation how you can design a science or research project to reach Whether applying for an internship or full-time job, having a solutions. You will also learn about the work of the Slow good resume and preparing for the interview are the most Foods Turtle Island Association, a new intertribal organization important parts of the application process. This workshop that focuses on the movement for access and preservation of will outline good resume writing techniques, different types foods for Native people of Canada, US, Mexico, and Hawaii. of interviews, provide guidance on how to answer some of the most commonly asked interview questions and sealing Fostering a culture of collaboration in the deal. We will review things every student should consider STEM facilities when deciding which offer to accept. Mr. Regal Leftwich SmithGroup The ability to effectively collaborate favors inter- and multi- disciplinary scientific research teams and institutions.

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Fundamentals of Process Improvement: on site to guide you if you have questions or need help. We Lean Six Sigma White Belt Course are seeking enthusiastic students who are curious about Dr. Aaron Bolin technology. United States Navy Heart to Heart with an AISES Elder Process improvement aims to make work and work products The AISES Council of Elders was established by the better, faster, cheaper, and safer. Lean Six Sigma is an founding members of AISES to provide guidance, wisdom, internationally recognized methodology for eliminating strength, and love to the AISES membership. As students or waste, reducing variation, and managing constraints. professionals, you may have seen the Elders from a distance Workshop attendees will learn the fundamental principles of at an AISES function and have been hesitant to approach process improvement, gain hands-on experience with some them with your questions or concerns. Here is an opportunity of the tools and techniques, and receive certification as a lean to sit and visit with an Elder in a more informal setting. The six sigma white belt. Elders will have their own individual table for more personal GEM GRAD Grad Lab discussions in an individual or small group setting. Laugh, cry, listen, hear, and have time to enjoy a visit with an AISES Elder. GRAD Lab is the National GEM Consortium’s premier programmatic offering for undergraduates! GRAD Lab offers High-Tech Apps: Creating New Tools for underrespresented students exposure to the benefits of Tribal Communities & Public Safety research and technology careers in a highly interactive one- Ms. Carrie Johnson day event. GRAD Lab encourages young people of color to AT&T Services, Inc. - FirstNet Program consider graduate engineering or science education and Interested in the app industry? Have an idea for an app applying for the GEM fellowship. Focusing on the global that would help your tribal community? Want to learn how importance of research and innovation, life-long career first responders are using applications to help keep their benefits, and real world role models the symposium will communities and themselves safe? If yes, this breakout help each student envision his or her future as a technology session is for you! Students will hear from app industry leader, successfully apply for a GEM fellowship, and gain entry experts and public safety leaders about FirstNet, the country’s to a graduate program. high-speed, nationwide wireless broadband network Go to College: Be the Future dedicated to public safety. Students will participate in hands- Dr. Holly Schaeffer on exercises to brainstorm and develop new applications LCC to help first responders serving tribal communities. Each student team will present their ideas to app experts and For people who have not had family members go to college, tribal public safety leaders. No past coding or application it may be difficult to get accurate unbiased information about experience is required for this breakout session. whether college is right for you. This session is presented by two first-generation college graduates, who have also HotSeat Weather Warning Simulator earned doctorates and spent their careers helping demystify Mr. Lans Rothfusz post-secondary opportunities. Plan to learn the difference NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory between training and education, how to create a plan for Have you ever wondered what it is like to issue tornado getting to college, whether you have always hoped to attend warnings? Try HotSeat! NOAA’s HotSeat is an interactive, web- college, or if it is getting close to high school graduation and based severe weather warning operations simulator created you wonder what you will do next. It is not too late to create as an education and outreach tool for teachers, students, your path to college and seek an education to change the and weather enthusiasts of all ages and experience levels. world or some small corner in your world. Participants will Simulations are intended to give participants an appreciation receive the brochure, College Preparation Checklist which of the meteorology of severe weather events and the includes additional guidance and resources. decision-making process that go into warnings of NOAA’s hackAISES: mini-hackathon - sponsored by National Weather Service (NWS). HotSeat uses archived IBM Weather Surveillance Radar (WSR-88D) data, severe weather AISES is looking for 30-40 hackers to build projects. Mentors reports, and damage survey photographs from actual events will be around to help students troubleshoot issues and in a displaced real-time (DRT) mode. Upon completion of answer questions. At the end of the hackathon, a wrap each event, the participant will receive a score indicating up session will give each team a chance to present and his/her success in a simulation. Each simulation runs demonstrate their accomplishments as well as award some approximately 10 minutes. Use of the simulator in classroom awesome prizes! All skill levels are welcome. This is a great settings can complement teachers’ weather units in science place to learn the basics from others. We will have mentors and may inspire future scientists. Ultimately, we hope HotSeat will make its participants better users of NWS warnings.

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How to Become a Successful Chapter traditional students). The program consists informal online Ms. Hannah Balderas math classes prerequisite to Calculus I (Basic Math and Intro AISES to Algebra, College Algebra, or Precalculus Analysis) over the summer and an optional five-day STEM camp. Breckenridge Every chapter would like to be successful. In this session, has run the program since summer 2013 with the assistance AISES students will share experiences and suggestions for of grants and institutional aid. The 1st to 2nd yr retention in chapter leadership, succession planning, proposal writing, STEM for students in this program is 95% compared to 83% of and ideas for how to recruit new members and/or reactivate all students, 66% for women, and 70% for ethnic minorities. old members. This will be an interactive session and the The program has also seen its first 4-yr graduates, served as audience will have the opportunity to ask questions, share a feeder for our AISES chapter, and inspired new mentoring ideas, experiences, and suggestions, and role play different programs. scenarios. Being able to get immediate feedback is great so attendees will be able to utilize the comments and Indigeneering™ STEAM: Integrating suggestions upon returning to their AISES family. Modern Engineering with Indigenous How to Get Hired in Information Technology Wisdom to Co-create A Harmonious and Sustainable Future Mr. Darrell Wilkerson Chickasaw Nation Industries Ms. Deanna Burgart Indigenous Engineering Inclusion Inc Are you looking to start a career in informatoin technology? With over 25 years of diverse and deep experience, I have In a changing world, a great deal of focus is on innovation. managed and lead multiple IT departments for some of Innovation comes from looking at existing challenges and the largest and most respected organizations in the United learning to quickly adapt our current skill sets to meet the States. Join me for an informative workshop that will changing demands. On a global scale, major challenges jumpstart your career, help you develop a plan of action and can be summarized by the United Nations Sustainable identify the path that is right for you. We cover my 7 Steps of Development Goals. Engineers can be part of the solution Getting Hired in IT, getting you ready to ace the job interview with many of these issues, and there is great disparity and get off to a successful start! between Indigenous and non-Indigenous metrics in these areas. We cannot solve the problems of today with the IllumiNative: Reclaiming Native Truth same systems and perspectives that caused them. Deanna Ms. Crystal Echo Hawk Burgart, Indigeneer™, believes that greater incorporation of Echo Hawk Consulting diverse perspectives, including Indigenous perspectives and This session will provide an overview of the research findings worldviews, can be a catalyst to finding solutions in a more from the Reclaiming Native Truth project, an unprecedented meaningful, long term way. In a world where collaboration is 2-year public opinion and strategy-setting project led by more imperative than ever, Deanna will invite participants to and for Native peoples. It was the largest project of its kind safely step out of their comfort zones and explore behaviours focused on changing the damaging, inaccurate narratives that lead to innovative cultures. ​ about Native peoples and dismantling the invisibility and Indigenizing Voice AI: Using Alexa Skills to erasure that create bias, discrimination and structural racism. Propagate and Preserve Native American It will also explore next steps in this movement to illuminate Cultures the vibrancy and power of Native voices, knowledge and stories that can transform public perceptions and move Mr. Michael Running Wolf hearts and minds to advance tribal sovereignty, social justice Amazon Alexa and equity for Native peoples. Ms. Carla Corl Amazon Increasing Retention through a College Bridge Program for Underrepresented Be one of the first to indigenize Alexa! Imagine being able to say, “Alexa, tell me about my tribe.” Join Amazon Alexa Students in STEM engineers for an interactive hands on lab to create Native Ms. Rachel Breckenridge American “Skills,” or apps. By leveraging the power of an AI University of Minnesota Duluth virtual assistant, participants will be shown the potential The University of Minnesota (UMD) Math Prep for STEM and fundamentals of usin advanced technology for cultural Careers is a no-cost-to-the-student summer bridge program preservation. Through the use of Alexa’s APIs, attendees offered to freshmen from underrepresented groups in STEM will be directed on how to create a personalized skill for (American Indian, African American, Asian/Pacific Islander, their nation. Attendees will be required to bring an internet Native Hawaiian, and Latino/Chicano; women interested capable laptop, have a valid email address, and an interest in in computer science, engineering, or physics; low-income software development. 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Indigenous and Western Science: Bringing Topics will include critically evaluating your research design Worldviews Together for Biocultural (aka “decolonize” your research) in regards to Indigenous data Restoration sovereignty, supporting Native communities, and how to develop and adapt your research design or program to ensure Mr. Loga Fixico Indigenous values and ethics are at the core. State University of New York - College of Environmental Science and Forestry Introduction to the Casino Gaming Industry Mr. Kaya DeerInWater Mr. John Bunch State University of New York - College of Environmental Science Pervasive Gaming and Forestry Mr. Samuel Ragle Ms. Annie Sorrell AISES Member/BMM Testlabs Internship 2018 State University of New York - College of Environmental Science Ms. Jodi DiLascio and Forestry BMM Testlabs This session is designed in a workshop format, where Ms. Michele Hannah people from varying backgrounds come together to explore Ainsworth Game Technology how traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and scientific ecological knowledge (SEK) can come together in a synthesis The Casino Gaming industry represents a unique market that to create biocultural restoration frameworks. These kinds of offers multiple career opportunities not only inside the walls frameworks are meant to renew and revitalize ecosystems of a casino but with the manufactures and businesses that while simultaneously renewing and revitalizing the cultures design, develop, test, certify and deploy casino products in to that are historically responsible for them. Biocultural the ever growing casino market, world- wide. The days of the restoration is an emerging field within the discipline of slot machines your grandmother played are long gone and ecological restoration. It’s interdisciplinary and requires a replaced with cutting edge technology including skill based combined methodology that draws from social and natural gambling, mobile casino wagering and more. This session will sciences. This workshop focuses on guiding people through provide attendees the opportunity to hear from actual game the process of learning the basics of TEK and SEK, why it’s manufacturers about careers in the gaming industry along important to include culture into ecological restoration, with insight in to what steps a STEM graduate would follow and what successful biocultural restorations might look like. if looking to enter into a great career in the casino gaming We’ll work together to identify goals, indicators, or mission industry. statements that would guide an example project. Then finish I-Spy: A Native American CIA Officer’s Story with a set of tools for people to bring back to their own TeeCie communities. Central Intelligence Agency Indigenous Data Sovereignty: How A Native American CIA officer will share her personal journey Scientists and Researchers Can Empower towards becoming a CIA employee. She will also demonstrate Indigenous Data Governance what it is like to be an analyst at the CIA. Dr. Stephanie Carroll Rainie It’s About Time to Get More Things Done University of Arizona / Native Nations Institute Mr. Chris Welch Ms. Lydia Jennings Navigation-Point The University of Arizona Mrs. Patti Mitchell Ms. Dominique David-Chavez Navigation-Point Colorado State University Add up how many hours you lost today. How many Indigenous data sovereignty is the right of Indigenous interruptions stopped your work? Did you make it to all your peoples to govern the collection, ownership, and application appointments on time? Did you feel frustrated or rushed to of data about Indigenous communities, lands, and resources. complete a task? If you find it impossible to manage your time Indigenous nations have the right to govern the data about effectively, you will have a hard time managing anything else themselves, regardless of where it is held and by whom. This in your life and eventually your world will begin to spiral out session, led by Indigenous scholars from the University of of control. Yet, a lot of us still continue surrendering precious Arizona and Colorado State University, will engage researchers minutes, hours, even days, reacting to what is going on around in an interactive activity-based discussion focused on applying us rather than developing solutions that will keep moving us Indigenous data sovereignty framework to research and forward and accomplishing our most important goals. data. Dialogue will encompass how Indigenous scholars and researchers can change the narrative of science defined by funding agencies and governments, to prioritize science that addresses community concerns relevant to community needs.

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Job One: Define Your Market mindsets that can help you handle the mishaps or even crises Mr. Gage Hutchens that every leader encounters. After hearing the improv Wells Fargo background for each concept and then stories of leaders who leveraged it, you can participate in exercises that let It’s perhaps the hardest, certainly the single most you practice how to apply it. consequential task you’ll do as an entrepreneur: define your market. What are you selling and to whom and why do Lean Manufacturing people want to buy what you want to sell? Get it right and Mr. William Tiger you have a chance for extended success, get it wrong and General Motors no matter how smart you are, how hard you work or even how well funded you may be, in the end it will be for naught. Ms. Heather Heckler Come to this seminar and learn how to begin to answer this General Motors Company most important question. Stop by and learn about some of the basic techniques we use to setup efficient work stations that build quality, common Language Preservation: Indigenize Your units. You will work in teams to build a paper airplane or Career Field LEGO car to certain specifciations.You will complete two runs Ms. Alaina Maker of building the units and learn along the way, how to make Osage Nation improvements utilizing standardized work, eliminating waste What is language preservation? Why are languages and setting up an efficient workspace. endangered? How you can incorporate language Lighting the Way: Connecting Indigenous preservation in any career field? Come find out at this Students with STEM engaging session with the 2018-2019 Osage Nation Princess and Osage Nation Immersion School teacher! Ms. Lynnetta Eyachabbe University of Oklahoma Leadership Empowerment: Honoring Ms. Tiffany Smith Wisdom & Guidance of Management University of Oklahoma Success Ms. Breanna Faris Mr. Marcellus Proctor University of Oklahoma NASA Goodard Space Flight Center American Indian STEM & Business Day - Sharing best Mr. Anthony Sanders practices and lessons learned, the presenters hope to share NASA Goddard Space Flight Center the process of building a similar program or effort at other In this interactive session, the audience will have the institutions to outreach to Native high school students on opportunity to learn what it means to be an effective STEM career pathways. manager/leader. At the end of the presentation, the audience Looking Inward to Empower Your Career will be able to identify the signs of what makes an individual a great leader and understand how communication & time Ms. Kate Roberson management are essential to being an effective manager Intel Corporation as well as be able to identify and use their own unique Have you heard the quote ‘Find something you love to do, management styles effectively. and you’ll never work a day in your life’? Well, as far-fetched as that sounds, you can take some practical steps to gain a Leading without a Script: Leadership deeper understanding of yourself and use this knowledge Mindsets Inspired by Improv Comedy to drive career success and happiness. Whether you’re just Ms. Jeri Dube starting out or been in the workforce for years, you can use Independent Consultant. Retired from Oracle Corporation in May the tools and techniques covered in this workshop to assess 2018. your personal values and use this knowledge to identify Leadership never comes with a script, therefore leaders three primary career goals. Come join us to learn how to look need a foundation of principles and responses allowing inward to better navigate your career. Attendees will walk them to effectively handle the unending stream of surprises away with a practical framework for career planning and and challenges they face. Although not initially obvious, learn how to adjust it over time. the tried and true methods improvisers use for producing off-the-cuff entertaining performances provide a source of practical wisdom for leaders. Strengthen your foundation by participating in an experiential exploration of three

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Math Circles: STEMulating Indigenous Movie Night “Red Power Energy” Participation A provocative film from the American Indian perspective Dr. Tatiana Shubin that reframes today’s controversial energy debate while the San Jose State University fate of the environment hangs in the balance. Can energy Dr. Robert Klein development empower a people while powering the nation? Tribal lands are the microcosm of today’s controversial Ohio University energy debate. Between the fears that fossil fuels cause Mr. Natanii Yazzie climate change and the hope that renewable energy can Miyamura High School save the planet, lies the complex reality of American Indian Mrs. Donna Fernandez reservations grappling with the balance of culture verse Navajo Preparatory School progress, poverty verse new-found wealth, and the fate of the environment. Ms. Irvilinda Bahe Navajo Preparatory School Fifty-six million acres of tribal lands contain 10% of the Mathematics is the forgotten “M” in STEM. Yet mathematics is nation’s renewable energy potential and 20% of America’s the basis for all STEM fields and it is the stepping stone into onshore oil and gas reserves. Tribal lands hold roughly the world of higher education. Moreover, mathematics is the 30% of the coal found west of the Mississippi, nearly 20% best subject to expand human mind’s capacity for critical of the known natural gas and oil reserves and up to 50% thinking and problem solving and therefore it is thoroughly of potential uranium reserves. Solar power could produce needed as preparation for a successful adult life regardless of 9,275 million MWh of electricity per year; twice the nation’s the professional occupation. The Alliance of Indigenous Math requirement, and wind power on tribal lands could power to Circles is devoted to bringing mathematicians and math 50 million homes. professionals in direct contact with Native American students Uniquely intimate, provocative and told from the Native and teachers in order to improve and strengthen their grasp perspective, with a nearly all-Native film crew and all- and attitude towards mathematics. We promote the culture Native Advisory Council, Red Power Energy is a multi-media of problem solving thus bringing more Native Americans into documentary that combines engaging storytelling with STEM fields. In the session, we will share the rich experience in-depth journalism. Featured are Western and Great Plains gained through our work with Navajo Nation and other American Indian tribes in North Dakota, South Dakota, Native American communities. Participants will engage in the Montana, Wyoming and Colorado. From tribes mining coal, beauty of math and learn about resources for their programs. drilling oil and fracking natural gas to a coalition of tribes and Morning Blessing Ceremony with the AISES individuals building sustainable wind farms and small scale residential solar, an engrossing story emerges that showcases Elders America’s indigenous population reclaiming their right of Start your day with a morning blessing ceremony by the self-determination. AISES Council of Elders. From a historically passive role in mineral extraction that Morphology of a Geoscience Career: frequently left their resource-rich reservations either Meanders, Eruptions, and Stories leased out for pennies on the dollar or contaminated by The enormous scope of the geosciences provides space environmental degradation and Federal mismanagement, for innumerable career niches in all workforce sectors; Native people are in the midst of an extraordinary resurgence. however—much like the natural systems a geoscientist They are challenging long-held stereotypes, fighting for investigates—the journey towards a dream job is rarely the sovereign right to control their lands, and develop their a straight line. There are diversions, fractals, migrations, natural and mineral resources --- however they choose. confluxes, eddies, phase transformations. These processes These Native-told energy stories offers a rare insight into are typically hidden from view, which impedes students’ the ideological battle shaping modern Indian Country and ability to see themselves working in the geosciences. What further advances a deeper understanding of American Indian place is there for a mathematician at a geomorphology culture which is too often under-reported, misunderstood or lab? A historian at a climate research center? An earth overlooked. scientist at NASA? This session aims to make a geoscience career accessible to any interested student, regardless of background, by sharing personal stories of journeys to/ within/through the geosciences. The presenters bring a diverse array of starting and ending points with the hope of demystifying the dynamics of a geoscience career and helping students see where they could fit into this field.

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Name That Tune: Student Success Native Women in Energy Workforce: Dr. Jerry Roberson Resilience & Leadership Lincoln-Memorial University Mr. Rob Harper Ms. Thura Mack Tribal Energy Resource University of Tennessee Ms. Magan Robinson Ms. Laurie Roberson Tribal Energy Resource Lincoln Memorial University-College of Veterinary Medicine Tribal workforce development initiatives often fail to Name That Tune: Student Success STEM faculty and understand the unique role of women in Native American related professionals from two research universities will society, and their distinctive professional contributions. As discuss college readiness and prepare students for success a critical emerging career planning topic, how are young in college. Trending topics will include volunteerism, STEM native women re-shaping the STEM workforce in the energy competency and literacy, academic advising, relationship sector? What kinds of workforce development challenges building, active learning, career choices and more. Preparing do native women face? Do native women struggle with for STEM careers is top of the charts across the nation. The stress and burnout? How do they stay resilient and succeed theme ‘name that tune’ will be supported by having the in these exciting new career paths? How should they chart attendees participate in various learning activities, playing their career path? How do they find good professionals STEM themed music, and leaving time for Q&A. mentors? How do native women function well in STEM- based professional teams? Magan Robinson of Tribal Energy NASA Listening Session 1: Storytelling Resource shares her perspective on the energy industry, and Mr. Torry Johnson the kinds of career paths available to native women. How can NASA Native women prepare for, and successfully proceed through Mr. Alex Grandon a meaningful career in energy? Attendees will gain a better NASA picture of the unique contributions, assets, and roles played by Native woman in today’s workforce and STEM fields. Mrs. Bonnie Murray NASA Native Youth Forum: Preparing for Future Ms. Caroline Montgomery Leader…Now! NASA Mr. Marcellus Proctor Ms. Jeannie Allen NASA Goodard Space Flight Center NASA This interactive session will allow for a dialogue between What images or stories come to mind when you students and potential employers to discuss possible hear “NASA”? What have you heard, or experienced, solutions in recruiting Native Youth. This will be a moderated in regards to resources and opportunities at NASA discussion with and opportunity for the audience to ask Centers? NASA’s Minority University Research and Education questions to the student panel. Project for American Indian Alaska Native STEM Engagement Networking Suites (MAIANSE) seeks to serve American Indian/Alaska Native communities in building their capacity in science, technology, Attend the event that has become a favorite among all engineering, and mathematics (STEM), particularly by using conference participants! This “buffet-style” networking event NASA’s unique experiential learning opportunities to engage offers a series of simultaneous receptions. Join conversations with students at Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) and and meet others with common interests. This is an other AI/AN-serving institutions. This session will provide opportunity to meet the conference sponsors and exhibitors an opportunity to share stories and begin conversations as well as other conference attendees in a fun and casual with the NASA MAIANSE team. During the conversation we environment. Enjoy refreshments, conversation and make hope to discuss needs of American Indian/Alaska Native important connections for the Career Fair! It is the perfect students and communities, debunk misconceptions about wrap-up for your first day. Visit one or all! NASA programs, identify available resources, and share the Opening Ceremony variety of existing opportunities to engage with NASA. The Kick off the AISES National conference with a welcome to session will be held in a storytelling format, with time for Oklahoma City and inspirational speakers. engagement through listening and sharing as the focus. Native Artisan Marketplace Thank you to all our registered vendors who are at the National Conference. Check out the vendors Thursday through Saturday for a shopping experience and exhibition of Native art from craftspeople from across the country.

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Opportunities Through American Indian for jobs reinforce the use of effective styles in negotiating Business Leaders (AIBL) STEM & Business and problem-solving. These cases help define patterns of Prairie Bighorn negotiations when choice and stress are factors. Participants are also taught to practice their own cases and receive American Indian Business Leaders feedback from observers. Several methods of responding to Learn more about the American Indian Business Leaders, its difficult tactics are demonstrated and discussed. available resources and opportunities including membership, internships, conference, and business leadership Preserving Culture With Technology: development. Saving Dying Languages and Traditions Our Journey from Interns to Engineers at Mrs. Andrea Delgado-Olson GE Aviation AnitaB.org Mr. Andrew Fletcher Ms. Amanda Sharp GE Aviation Intel Corporation Mrs. Michelle McCartney Ms. Nicole Archambault GE Aviation La Vie en Code Ms. Cherise John Native American Women in Computing panelists discuss the contributions they make in their communities to General Electric preserve their languages and culture, how they are changing Join us as panelists share insights from their journey from perceptions of Natives in Tech, and offer insight into the intern to engineer. You’ll hear about how to land and excel in challenges and successes they have overcome. These diverse your dream job, how to secure an offer of employment at representatives of tech give a background and provide AISES NC, and how to develop personally, professionally, and viewpoints from all aspects of the Tech Industry. technically as an engineer. The panelists are professionals who have participated in GE Aviation’s distinguished intern/ Quality is Life – Hozhó Applied to co-op and Edison Engineering Development Programs - both Engineering recent graduates and established engineering professionals. Mrs. LaTanya Goh The discussion is facilitated by a GE engineering leader who Raytheon will also share knowledge of GE work experience and culture. Ms. Genevieve Bennally Picking Your Top College Raytheon Ms. Karen English As Native peoples, we have principles of quality in our Winds of Change (AISES) heritage that has been engrained in us since birth. Our If you’re shopping for a college, you have a powerful tool ancestors had methods to ensure survival and leverage -- you just need to make it work for you. The roster of Top 200 innovation. They had a deep sense of what quality meant: Colleges for Native Americans, in the annual Special College they had to ensure they made everything to last. The Navajo Guide from Winds of Change, is made up of pages of charts people have lived by Hozhó (harmony), which is a complete packed with well-researched data. This session will show you understanding of cause and effect in decisions, behaviors, how to decode all that information, identify which stats are actions, thoughts, and speech. Right actions resulted in most important for you, and narrow your list of schools to desirable outcomes. This sense of harmony includes an apply to. Come with your questions! understanding of longevity. It guaranteed that the house they built withstood all potential risks because they had to Post-Doctoral and Graduate Negotiations, make it right from the start. In the same way, they made Problem Solving, and Conflict Management decisions for themselves and their family in light of quality Dr. Jane Tucker and longevity of life. By understanding and applying the J Tucker Associates Hozhó way of life, we can honor the past and be the best we This workshop is designed to build an understanding of can be for our futures. mutual interest-based negotiations and problem-solving. Resume Room The content will focus on both finding out the other party’s The Resume Room will be available to students on Thursday interests and asking for what you need to be successful. and Friday. Equipped with computers and printers and Participants can bring examples of challenging negotiations staffed by experts from sponsoring organizations, partcipants or meetings, either from the past or upcoming, and leave will fine tune their resumes for upload to the AISES Resume with techniques to help them be more effective professionals. Database and to distribute at the National Conference Participants will evaluate their personal conflict resolution College and Career Fair. styles. Case studies about credit for research and applying

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Riveting Rockets Show Me the Money: Make Budgets Work Ms. Susanna Packauskas-Lewalski for You Raytheon Ms. Heather Heckler Can straws fly? Come learn the basics of flight while creating General Motors Company your own straw rocket. Step through the engineering process Now that you are looking for that first job, how do you make while designing and luanching your own straw rockets. How sure you can pay your bills? Can you still go out and enjoy far can you make it fly? time with your friends? Learn some about maintaining SAIGE Professionals in STEM - Working a budget so your money works for you. Give yourself an opportunity to look to the future and enjoy today without with Tribes stressing over where your money went. “A budget is telling Mr. Carl Etsitty your money where to go instead of wondering where it USDA/APHIS went.” – Dave Ramsey Mr. Duane Matt Simulation Experience: Medical Response Division of Energy and Mineral Development to Natural Disaster Mrs. Georgia Madrid NOAA Dr. Walter Franz Mayo Clinic Mrs. Susan Filkins DOI/Bureau of Land Management, Natural Resource Specialist, Dr. Rahul Kashyap Idaho BLM State Office Tribal Liaison Mayo Clinic With this panel discussion, the Society of American Indian Dr. Jonathan Baines Government Employees (SAIGE) is showcasing three Mayo Clinic members who work with Tribes using their STEM careers. Mayo Clinic was once again named the best hospital in the The panelists exemplify the SAIGE theme, “Honoring Our nation by U.S. News & World Report. You are invited to visit a Ancestors through Government Service” and will share their Mayo Clinic simulation environment for learning. You can visit respective STEM journeys, challenges and positive outcomes with care providers and staff, get a “behind the scenes” view along the way. Whether working on tribal greenhouses with of technology used in health care delivery, and have hands- solutions to challenges such as communication differences, on experiences with a team in a simulated emergency serving as a bridge for tribal and mainstream science scenario. Led by very experienced facilitators, these exercises concerns, or providing input to policy decisions, you will gain provide an opportunity to experience how a health care knowledge and an appreciation for working with Tribes in response team must work together in a crisis. In this very a Federal career. Information on the SAIGE Youth Track and supportive environment, learners will be encouraged to scholarships will also be shared. Panelists: Susan Filkins, DOI/ serve “patients” with a variety of health concerns, work Bureau of Land Management, Natural Resource Specialist, with mannequins and medical equipment, work as a team ID BLM State Office Tribal Liaison for Tribal Greenhouses Carl to support each other, and explore many different health Etsitty, Assistant Director/Office of National Tribal Liaison, conditions. USDA-APHIS Duane Matt, Geologist, Division of Energy and Smart Girls Rock Mineral Development, Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Mr. Octavio Rodriguez Scholarship Apps; Tips and Tricks 3M Dr. Holly Schaeffer Mr. Eric Daugherty LCC 3M College expenses can be overwhelming and trying to Mr. Todd Ambo earn scholarship funds may be intimidating. How can you 3M make your scholarship application shine in the eyes of the Ms. Sarah Gumina selection committee? This workshop will focus on how to 3M create a winning application. Key points will include:1) how to recognize the key criteria on which an application will be Ms. Renee Peterson judged, 2) knowing who is sponsoring the scholarship and 3M their interests, and 3) how to demonstrate through your Ms. Juliana Biederman writing that your interests, experiences, and personal skills are 3M worthy of funding. With guidance, participants will practice This session was developed to connect young girls interested organizing key points to apply for a scholarship. With a little STEM related fields with professional technical women in homework, you can create a winning application. Possible their local community. It also provide a template, guidance scholarship sources will be provided. and inspiration to be a mentor or provide guidance to other

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young females who may not know much about STEM related STEM Entrepreneurship fields. You hold the key to the future and other young girl’s Mr. Will Fuentes futures as you help encourage them to pursue an education Maestro Group and career in science & engineering. Ms. Victoria Fuentes So You Want To Be A Hacker? (Introduction American Chemical Society to and Advice for a Career In Cybersecurity) Learn from expert Will Fuentes from Maestro (www. Mr. Anthony Marquez maestrogroup.co) who knows the ins and outs of Electronic Arts entrepreneurship. Will Fuentes and his companies have been For most people, Hollywood and other pop culture references nominated for countless awards including most recently the towards hackers have shaped a view on what the field of 2018 IES Sales Excellence awards in Sales Training. Hear his cybersecurity entails. However, what does it really mean to story of how he began his first busineess, sold it and began be a hacker in the real world and have a career in the field of a new one. Listen to bumps on the way to success and how cybersecurity? This session’s goal is to pull back the curtain he finally reached where he is today. Learn how persistance is in an attempt to remove some of the obstacles that may the word of the day and how you can be successful. Will is a be preventing individuals from entering the field, including big believer of paying it forward and is ready to help the next intimidation, knowledge, and a general awareness for the STEM Entrepreneurs and show them the way to success. field. The first portion of the session concentrates on a STEM Opportunities for Tribes: Internship general introduction to the field of security. Then the session & Mentorship Program Development touches upon the presenter’s specialization within the field, application security. Finally, the session will conclude with the Mr. John B. Lewis presenter providing some career advice that he believes will Mr. Stephen Roe Lewis help individuals be successful in the field of cybersecurity, as The panel will discuss successes and failures in developing well as any career path. STEM-related internship programs and opportunities. STEM Activity Day - sponsored by Boeing Mentorship is a key aspect in STEM program development and will be discussed from the tribal corporation perspective, This fun, interactive day of activities will include hands-on from a Tribal governance and leadership perspective and STEM activities for Pre-College students and educators. Start from an industry perspective. your AISES National Conference off right with this engaging and helpful afternoon of STEM activities and information. Student Social Event This event is sponsored by Boeing Company and include Pre-college and college students spend some time chances to win great prizes! STEM Activity Day will feature a unwinding from a long day with music and dancing! Marketplace where Pre-College students can visit a variety of booths to learn more about AISES Pre-College opportunities Succeed by creating a Great Organizational and gain valuable professional development skills such as Culture! resume building, college application tips, AISES opportunities Mr. William Tiger and more!Registration is required. General Motors STEM Challenge: Keeping Students This interactive session is intended to provide the participant Engaged with Problem Solving with an understanding as to why being able to develop a corporate culture which matches what an organization Ms. Alexandra Wakely wants and needs is important, not just for the attitude of the eCYBERMISSION/Army Educational Outreach Program workplace, but for the competitiveness of the organization. eCYBERMISSION (sponsored by the United States Army) is a Also, you will better understand why some corporate cultures free, nationwide STEM competition for students in grades 6-9. are viewed so negative and others postively. The participant The practices included in the NGSS are all based on exploring will learn how interactions with others develops culture on a and solving problems, but the act of engaging students daily basis and is useful to young professionals entering the in this problem solving can often be a problem in itself. In ranks of Management or to someone with experience but this interactive workshop, participants will: Work on and needs tools to change the culture of their organization. solve puzzles that can be taken to the classroom to model problem-based learning Learn through practice that failure is an important part of learning, and it needs to be a step along the path to success Share how the online STEM competition, eCYBERMISSION gives students a chance to explore and solve problems using science and engineering and how teachers and students can participate at no cost

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Teach Computer Science, Computational The Journey to AI Thinking and Engineering using Hands on Mr. Brendan Kinkade Robotics IBM Mr. Steve Goodgame Explore the science behind the AI revolution and the KISS Institute for Practical Robotics tremendous opportunity being unleashed for professionals, Mrs. Carol Goodgame businesses and society. This session will look at AI’s progress Kiss Institute for Practical Robotics in the business landscape and how AI is cultivating new knowledge and transforming critical industries like Engage your students in STEM! Use robots to inspire and healthcare, security, telecommunications, and financial motivate your students to learn computer science and services. Join IBM’s Brendan Kinkade to examine the engineering concepts in a fun and hands-on way. Come learn underlying complexities of developing new AI technologies about the Botball and Junior Botball Challenge programs and how forward thinking professionals are using AI to that provide equipment, professional development and reexamine workflows within their professions and industries. curriculum so that you can get your students started on the path to becoming computer scientist and engineers. The Power of Indigenous Knowledges - Participants will get to interact and program the robots at the Moving From Collecting to Respectful Use session. Dr. Dan Wildcat TEK Is The Way! Haskell Indian Nations University Mr. Solo Greene Dr. Suzanne Van Cooten Nez Perce Tribe NOAA/National Weather Service Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) is the way we are Dr. Roger Pulwarty going to find balance, find our way and find our purpose. NOAA/Oceanic & Atmospheric Research The presenter will focus on the connection we have with Mr. Bill Thomas the land, earth and with each other, and he will explain how NOAA/National Ocean Service and why we did things a certain way and during certain seasons and certain times. He will talk about the importance Mrs. Georgia Madrid of ceremonies and the values of Native people. He will use NOAA stories and examples to gain a better understand of the AISES students are future science and technology leaders importance of why we do the things we do, and why it is who come from diverse communities with Indigenous important to keep going, keep working and keep holding on. knowledges, perspectives and worldviews that are often Lastly, he will querstion you overlooked in mainstream research and academia. This The Bridge Building Hands-On Activity session will fully engage students in a dynamic dialogue with the panelists on issues of concern such as intellectual Mrs. Sheri Jackson property rights, the peer-review process, tribal sovereignty, IBM free prior and informed consent, mentoring, inclusion Ms. Nedlaya Francisco and implicit bias. Student participants will reflect on their IBM own Indigenous knowledges, communicate their ideas for A fun and exciting activity for pre-college students and understanding and applying the many contributions that teachers to understand project planning, design, estimating Indigenous peoples can make in helping their communities and the engineering process to prepare and produce quality and the broader society adapt in a changing climate, results on a project. and share ways to incorporate these knowledges with mainstream science that should be culturally inclusive and The Human Knot - Inclusive Team Building encourages students to pursue STEM degrees. How important is Integrity & Trust to a Successful Team? This session will focus on how to improve communication, The Science and Craft of Negotiating dialogue and working through conflict using integrity Dr. Roger Dube and trust. The Session will also involve a group activity to Rochester Institute of Technology demonstrate how successful a team can be when everyone The average American negotiates several times a day, and works together. yet most of us have never been trained in negotiating. We don’t know how to handle things when others can negotiate masterfully, and yet some of these negotiations are life- changing. It’s always a good time to learn how to negotiate

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well. Understanding negotiating rules and tactics will help This interactive session provides a framework for looking at you get more of what YOU want in life. What do studies show personal styles in the workplace. Participants will gain an about HOW to ask for what you want? You will recognize understanding of your own behavioral and communication tactics and will learn tools to use to get closer to your goal style as well as other styles and their preferences in order while making the other party feel GOOD! In this session, the to maximize interpersonal success. Prerequisite quiz: http:// class will learn the principles of professional negotiation in an www.123test.com/disc-personality-test/. The primary goal interactive environment and apply them in simple exercises. is to increase participant’s self-awareness, tips on how to flex your personal style and relationship management The Sky Scraper Challenge in the workplace. Participants will learn how to improve Ms. Kelsey Kawaguchi interpersonal communications, connect with co-workers The Boeing Company more effectively and understand what you need to do to be Think like an engineer and exercise creativity and teamwork more successful in your interactions with others. to build the tallest freestanding structure. We Are Healers: Your Pathway to Medical There is no syllabus for your career: School How to manage your career so it doesn’t Dr. Allison Empey manage you. Oregon Health and Science University Mr. Doug Thompson American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) people face significant Microsoft health disparities, which is further jeopardized by a shortage During this session you will learn strategies, skills, and of AI/AN healthcare professionals. AI/ANs are at higher risk for techniques you may need to leverage to navigate the health problems, experience higher rates of death, and have a modern workplace. Some of the skills I I will discuss are: lower life expectancy than the general population. Persistent Storytelling - If you learn nothing else this is key. Managing physician vacancies at tribal clinics results in decreased Up - Many managers make lousy mentors Finding a Mentor access to high-quality, safe healthcare and perpetuation of - Many mentors are not managers Sales skills (Even if you are disparities. AI/AN health professionals are disproportionately not in sales; you are in sales) Predicting the future - The art of under-represented in medicine. It does not have to be this knowing where the puck is going. way. This presentation will: 1) Explore the milestones of the medical school application; 2) Provide tangible examples This is Native Health Jeopardy! With for success and resources; 3) Highlight the Wy’East a direct the Native American Center for Health post-bacc pathway to Oregon Health and Science University’s Professions School of Medicine. Ms. Danielle Yancey What Graduate School Can Do for Your Native American Center for Health Professions- University of Future Wisconsin- Madison Dr. Holly Schaeffer Ms. Lina Martin LCC Native American Center for Health Professions- University of Wisconsin- Madison Graduate school might seem like a stretch for those who have not had family members encourage them or attend graduate Is “pre-med” a major? How long is a Physician Assistant school. In fact, it may be hard to get information about program? In this session we will test your knowledge about graduate school. This session will focus on three key areas: health careers and Native culture and health. You and a group 1) what is graduate school and why attend (it’s for more of peers will compete for the title of Native Health Jeopardy than a degree), 2) the key components of a graduate school Champions at the AISES conference! At this session you will application and how to design your application for success, meet the Native American Center for Health Professions team, and 3) choosing and using a mentor. Session participants will explore health professions, and meet other Native students receive a copy of the book, So You Want To Go To Graduate interested in the health field. If you plan to be at the AISES School, What You Need To Know About Graduate School But conference and would like to be a contestant on Native May Not Have Known You Needed To Ask written by Ken Poff Health Jeopardy please come to our workshop. (co-presenter) and William Gordan. Understanding your Personal Work Style Ms. Sandra One Feather Los Alamos National Laboratory Understanding your personal work style and your colleagues personal work styles are key to being successful at work.

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When you thrive, we all thrive: Creating Why Our Communities Need more Native a model for Native American student Architects and Engineers success and support in STEM fields Dr. Lynn Paxson Melissa Tehee, J.D., Ph.D. Iowa State University, College of Design, Department of Utah State University Architecture Dr. Kathryn Weglarz Stanford Lake Utah State University Terraform Development, LLC Mr. Alan Savitzky Mr. Michael Laverdure Utah State University First American Design Studio Ms. Devon Isaacs, B.A. Mr. Daniel Glenn Utah State University 7 Directions Architects / Planners This session will cover two programs to assist Native student Ms. Tammy Eagle Bull preparation and success in baccalaureate STEM programs. Encompass Architects The first, the Native American Summer Mentorship Program Our Background The American Indian Council of Architects (NASMP) provides an opportunity for Native students at a and Engineers is a non-profit corporation established in 1976. two-year campus to engage in hands-on learning in STEM Its membership is comprised of American Indian architecture, fields in partnership with faculty and graduate students engineering, and design professionals through out the across multiple disciplines. The second, Mentoring and United States of America. Purpose of AICAE: - Advance the Encouraging Student Academic Success (MESAS), expand role of American Indian professional engineers, architects upon NASMP, using an innovative model for helping and design professionals in practice and to advance their Native American students thrive in higher education professional skills. - Promote recognition of member’s settings by improving the transition of Native students into professional excellence, service, projects and contributions. baccalaureate STEM programs. MESAS provides essential - Encourage American Indians to pursue careers as support, including strengthening academic preparation, professional engineers, architects, and design professionals. - lowering institutional barriers to success, and addressing the Consolidate the expertise of members into a single focus for social and community needs of transitioning students, many representation on a national level. Our goal in attending the of whom are often 400 miles or more from their homes. AISES conference is to promote Architecture, Engineering and The MESAS Program also implements tools for student other Design based careers are valid options and have a high advocacy, improved residential life on campus, and cultural value impact to the communities we serve. competency training of faculty and staff. Why Teach Computer Science and Why Every Tribal Building Should be Net Engagement Practices to Make it Stick Zero Dr. Kristn Searle Mr. Michael Laverdure Utah State University First American Design Studio Ms. Leslie Aaronson Learn about the following concepts & strategies: Energy Star. NCWIT (National Center for Women & Information Technology) ENERGY STAR is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Do you want to encourage more Native American students voluntary program that helps businesses and individuals to participate in your computing classes and programs and save money and protect our climate through superior energy engage ALL students? In this session participants will explore efficiency. Energy Use Intensity. EUI expresses a building’s Why Computer Science and how to create an engaging energy use as a function of its size or other characteristics. and student-centered classroom by exploring NCWIT’s Generally, a low EUI signifies good energy performance How “EngageCSEdu Engagement Framework.” The Framework to reduce EUI. EUI can vary by building type / Energy star consists of three Engagement Principles: Make It Matter, baseline EUI Net Zero. A building which, while still connected Create Inclusive Community, and Build Student Confidence to the grid, produces enough energy on site equal to the in Computing. They are premised on research that suggests amount of energy used. Insulated Concrete Forms (ICF). ICF’s that students are more motivated, perform better, and more are modular, easy to install. Tribal members can be taught likely to persist when they can see how a lesson connects to to install and not have to be masons. Real life Example of a their life, interests, goals, and values, and when they have a Tribal Net Zero Building. Fort Totten Alt CTE School Seven community related to their academic pursuits. Participants Generational Thinking We should build tribal net-zero will come away with actionable strategies and resources projects while maintaining a realistic budget and surpassing to engage and retain students as well as programs to assist “green” standards. Think 7! students on their CS journey.

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Working To Become A Successful Yes! A career in STEM is for you! Starting Professional Engineer within the Federal your career and developing yourself to lead Government in business and technical environments Mr. Brian Billy Mr. Brandon Polingyumptewa Bureau of Reclamation/U.S Department of the Interior The Boeing Company This session’s main purpose is to discuss ways to become a Mr. Mark Abotossaway successful engineer within the Federal Government. Many The Boeing Company Native American college students and early professionals Mr. Christopher Payne seek employment in agencies and companies where they The Boeing Company can make a positive contribution, build financial security, and maintain a strong connection to their tribal heritage. Mr. Curtis Largo In contemplating a career in the Federal workforce there The Boeing Company are many postive benefits that allow for personal growth Mr. Rob Walbrun while allowing for the sharing of tribal beliefs & customs. The Boeing Company Because the Federal Government and tribal communities Mrs. Cheryl McClellan work hand-in-hand Native American engineers who The Boeing Company possess the technical expertise have a profound impact on Mrs. Leona Anderson tribal communities because of their ability to plan, design, The Boeing Company and construct necessary infrastructure, protect tribal resources, and advocate for the benefit of tribal entities. Ms. Talia Graves Furthermore, this session will discuss the postive impact The Boeing Company of accomplished Native American professionals and the Ms. Bree Cooper importance to become effective leaders, mentors, and The Boeing Company examples to tribal communities and society. The panel will cover the following items: Yes! Engineering is Working to protect the United States, the for You! Careers in STEM Evaluating Job Offers Transitioning US Intelligence Community from Campus to the Workforce Executive Mentoring (How to obtain or provide mentorship) Managing Stress/Avoiding The U.S. Intelligence Community is a group of 17 federal Burnout (Tips to help professionals handle stress and burn- intelligence agencies working together to protect the out in their careers) Career Planning (Help professionals chart United States of America. They focus on an ever-expanding or plan their career path) Creating and Supporting Effective range of issues, from terrorist financing to drug trafficking, Teams Leadership Development from climate change and environmental issues to foreign technology threats and nuclear proliferation. This session You CAN do this! Apply for Scholarships will hold a discussion focused on life and careers in the U.S. Like A Pro! Intelligence and National Security Communities. Ms. Amy Weinstein AISES In this hour-long session, you will learn about the scholarship application process and how to submit a quality application. We will discuss the similarities between scholarship and college applications, talk about the importance of timelines, deadlines, essays, being responsive to communications, and references (for those letters of recommendations you will need). You CAN do this!

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Ms. Leslie Aaronson Mrs. Leona Anderson Strategic Director for K-12 Initiatives Cherokee-Creek NCWIT (National Center for Women Human Resources Process Lead & Information Technology) The Boeing Company Leslie Aaronson is the Strategic Director of K-12 Initiatives Leona Anderson works in the Human Resources organization for NCWIT (National Center for Women & Information for The Boeing Company. She is the Process Lead for the Technology) and the Teacher in Residence at LA Promise Wellness-West Region. She is the Vice Chair of the Mesa Fund where she manages Girls Build LA. Leslie was awarded Diversity Council, Treasurer of the Boeing American Indian Teacher of the Year by LAUSD for her work as the Lead Society, and Enterprise Focal for The American Indian Science Teacher and Coordinator of Foshay Learning Center’s and Engineering Society for the past 11 years. She is an AISES Technology Academy where she taught for thirteen years. Sequoyah Fellow. Leona is a presenter at AISES National She was a researcher for CS Teaching Tips and writes articles Conferences and AISES Leadership Summits. Her father and and speaks about how to prepare students for careers of paternal grandparents are enrolled members of the Cherokee the future and the importance of access and equity for Nation Tribe in Oklahoma. Throughout her career, Leona all. Leslie sits on the advisory board for CSEdWeek, SciGirls has received numerous awards including AISES’ Corporate Code, the Computer Science Department of El Camino Partner Award, Women of Color in Technology Corporate College, and Family Code Night. Prior to teaching, Leslie was Responsibility Award & WOC All-Star Award, Outstanding the Production Manager for Blue’s Clues International at Achievement, Human Resources Quality Award, Diversity Nickelodeon. Leadership, Global Diversity Change Agent, Outstanding University Hiring Results, and Employee of the Year. Mr. Mark Abotossaway Ojibwe First Nation Ms. Mallory Anderson Structural Analysis Engineer Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians The Boeing Company User Researcher Mark Abotossaway is an Ojibwe and grew up on the Aundeck IBM Omni Kaning First Nation, on Manitoulin Island, Canada. He Mallory Anderson is a User Researcher and UX Designer at is currently a Structural Analysis Engineer with The Boeing IBM in Austin, Texas. Born and raised in Michigan, she earned Company. He graduated with a Bachelor of Aerospace a B.A. from Michigan State University and an M.S. from the Engineering and Mechanics in 2013 from the University University of Michigan School of Information, specializing in of Minnesota, and a Bachelor of Science Physics from the Human Computer Interaction where she presented work on University of Winnipeg in 2010. He is a first generation college a language learning platform connecting Ojibwe speakers graduate and is an AISES Sequoyah Fellow. and learners. Mallory shared a session on Design Thinking with AISES at the 2017 Leadership Summit and is excited to Ms. Jeannie Allen support another IBMer present ways technology can work for MAIANSE Outreach Lead Indigenous communities. NASA NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project Ms. Nicole Archambault for American Indian and Alaska Native STEM Engagement Web Developer (MAIANSE) seeks to serve American Indian and Alaska La Vie en Code Native (AI/AN) communities in building their capacity in Nicole Archambault is a self-taught Front-end Web science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), Developer in the suburbs of Boston. Her work through her particularly by using NASA’s unique experiential learning own organization, La Vie en Code, lies at the intersection of opportunities to engage with students at Tribal Colleges and technology, education, and helping women and minorities Universities (TCUs) and other AI/AN-serving institutions. in technology. She created and maintains the La Vie en Code blog and podcast, and an upcoming e-learning prep course Mr. Todd Ambo for self-taught web developers. She is a contributing member 3M of Systers, Black Women in Computing (BWiC), and Native Todd Ambo is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt for 3M in Irvine American Women in Computing (NAWiC). California. Before his Black Belt role, Todd was an O2 (optimized operations) in Aberdeen South Dakota, and more Mrs. Tara Astigarraga recently a manufacturing engineer for 3M’s dental division in Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Irvine California. Todd was raised in the San Fernando Valley IBM Research, Sr. Software Engineer and Master Inventor and has a degree in Chemical Engineering from UCLA. IBM Tara Astigarraga works in IBM Watson Research focused on architecting and developing Enterprise Blockchain Solutions.

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She is also an IBM Master Inventor with 70+ Patents Filed In Summer 2019 she will work at the AIMC Math Camp at the and a passionate mentor for STEM K-12 outreach. Tara was Navajo Preparatory School as a Junior Mentor. the 2016 AISES Technical Excellence award winner and is an Dr. Jonathan Baines AISES Sequoyah Fellow. At IBM Tara also serves on the Native Diversity Council. Tlingit, Tsimshian Mayo Clinic Family Medicine Physician and Ms. Marcy Averill Medical Director for Mayo Clinic Native Turtle Mountain Chippewa Mayo Clinic Program Manager, Office for Diversity Dr. Jonathan Baines (Tlingit, Tsimshian) earned B.S. degrees Mayo Clinic in Chemistry and Microbiology from Arizona State University Marcy Averill, Turtle Mountain Chippewa, grew up on and became the first American Indian/Alaska Native to earn the reservation in North Dakota. Her passion for cultural a MD/PhD dual degree at the Mayo Clinic. Dr. Baines’ work connections to science, technology, engineering, and in graduate school included molecular diagnostics, finding math (STEM) was ignited and built in her junior high and novel human papillomaviruses, and tumor immunotherapy, high school by AISES summer academic programs and using T-cell based immunotherapy for the treatment of science fairs. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Electrical multiple tumor types including cervical carcinoma. His Engineering at the University of Minnesota and worked leadership roles in the Army National Guard, during his for IBM for 15 years. Now employed by the Mayo Clinic, preliminary year of General Surgery, during obstetrical Marcy serves as the Operations Director for Spirit of EAGLES, deliveries in the Emergency Room, and his role as Co-Director Program Manager in the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine and of the Employee and Community Health Procedure Clinic Science Office for Diversity, and as Chair of the American have prepared him well to lead diverse teams. Dr. Baines’ Indian Employee Resource Group. She is also a graduate current research interests include microbiology, immunology, student at North Dakota State University, pursuing a Master genetics and expression profiling, as well as pediatric of Public Health in American Indian Public Health. In 2016, neurodevelopment as an obstetrical and pediatric physician Marcy was honored with an AISES Sequoyah Fellowship. in Family Medicine at the Mayo Clinic. He serves as the Marcy lives in Rochester, Minnesota with her beloved seven- Medical Director for Native CIRCLE at the Mayo Clinic. year-old daughter. Ms. Hannah Balderas Adam Bad Wound Arikara, Santee Sioux, Little Shell Ojibway Vice President of Development Senior National Student Representative GRID Alternatives AISES Adam’s mission is to strengthen people and planet through Hannah Balderas graduated from the University of North philanthropy. As Vice President of Development, Adam Dakota with a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology and Pre- leads GRID Alternatives’ organization-wide strategies Health Emphasis. She currently serves as the AISES Senior to advance philanthropic partnerships and promote a National Student Representative. culture of philanthropy. Adam is a Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE), a certified naturalist from the University of Dr. Mark Bellcourt California, and is currently pursuing an Executive Certificate White Earth Nation in Conservation & Environmental Sustainability at Columbia Senior Academic Advisor University and an Executive Certificate in Nonprofit University of Minnesota Leadership at Harvard University. Adam holds a bachelor’s Mark Bellcourt, EdD, is an enrolled member of the White Earth degree from St. Olaf College, a master’s degree from Nation, and a former member of the AISES Board of Directors. Columbia University, and two master’s degrees in education Dr. Bellcourt serves as a scientific and cultural consultant. He policy and sociology from Stanford University, where he is also a Coordinator for the President’s Emerging Scholars serves on the board of directors of the Stanford Alumni (PES) program and a Senior Academic Adviser in the College Association. of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Bellcourt teaches a course on “Native Ms. Irvilinda Bahe American Ways of Knowing the Environment”. Navajo Student Ms. Genevieve Bennally Navajo Preparatory School Navajo Irvilinda Bahe (Navajo) is a student at the Navajo Preparatory Senior Systems Engineer School in Farmington, New Mexico. She is a high school Raytheon senior. Irvilinda has been involved with NNMC and AIMC Genevieve Bennally was born and raised in northern Arizona. since 2014, attending all summer math camps as a student. Her Navajo heritage which values harmony is at the heart She is featured in the PBS documentary “Navajo Math Circles.” of what she believes and exudes in her professional life. She

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graduated from Northern Arizona University in Mechanical from the University of Montana with a master’s degree in Engineering. She has an array of experience from bio-medical Business Administration. While she was in college, she was engineering to coal mining to defense at Raytheon. Her work an active American Indian Business Leader (AIBL) chapter experience has helped foster and develop her passion for member and she also worked for the National AIBL office process work and continuous improvement. In her current during her graduate studies. Before joining the AIBL team, role in systems engineering, she leverages her insights she worked in Washington DC, providing accounting and gained from mechanical and quality engineering to give her contract management services to help support economic an advantage to deliver superior results for customers by development within American Indian communities. She has bridging technical knowledge and customer requirements. also served as the comptroller for the Northern Cheyenne She currently serves as the Director of Operations for the Tribe in Montana and worked for an auditing firm specializing RAIN-Southwest. She has served 13 years on the Northern in governmental compliance. Arizona Native-American Foundation Board as the Associate Mr. Brian Billy Director. She is a proud mother of two children and enjoys a good novel on the beach. Navajo Civil Engineer Dr. Olester Benson Bureau of Reclamation/U.S Department of the Interior Corporate Scientist A Professionally Licensed Civil Engineer from the State 3M of Oregon, Brian Billy currently works for the Bureau Dr. Olester Benson is a Corporate Scientist in the 3M of Reclamation in Klamath Falls, Oregon. He performs Corporate Research Process Laboratory. He received his PhD inspections on concrete structures, dams, canal systems, etc. degree in physical organic chemistry from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Dr. Benson has spent his 3M career Ms. Patty Bird leading research efforts developing environmentally friendly Workforce Development Senior Program Manager manufacturing process technologies using 3M’s precision NCCER engineering infrastructure and high-energy radiation. He Patty Bird is the Workforce Development Senior Program has applied these technologies to create products in the Manager at NCCER. Her role includes assisting organizations medical, personal safety, traffic safety, renewable energy, to implement training and workforce development programs. aerospace, home improvement, semiconductor processing, During her tenure at NCCER, Patty has worked as an accounts and electronic display industries. He holds received 71 payable/receivable coordinator, administrative assistant, issued United States patents. Dr. Benson is a member of the project manager and Senior Manager of Projects. Patty has a American Chemical Society, the National Organization of bachelor’s degree in English with both a literature and writing Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers, and a Sequoyah emphasis from Northern State University. Fellow of the American Indian Science and Engineering Ms. Debi Blaney Society. Dr. Benson is a retired United States Army Master Senior Education Specialist Sergeant having served 24 years (11 years Active duty, 13 NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research years Active Reserve). He served as an infantryman, medical Debi Blaney works as a Senior Education Specialist at the specialist, and pharmacy specialist. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Ms. Juliana Biederman Office of Ocean Exploration and Research. Reporting and Analytical Specialist Ms. Jami Boettcher 3M Research Assistant Juliana Biederman is a Reporting and Analytics Specialist Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological for 3M’s Industrial Adhesives and Tapes division. She grew Studies, University of Oklahoma; NOAA/National Se up in Robbinsdale, Minnesota and stayed near home to Jami Boettcher is a research assistant with CIMMS at NOAA/ get her degree in Business Administration: Marketing and NSSL’s Radar Research and Development Division as a radar Management from St. Catherine University in St. Paul, meteorologist working with scientists on possible future Minnesota. radar technologies. Boettcher has many years of National Prairie Bighorn Weather Service (NWS) experience, first in operations, then Fort Peck Sioux Tribe as a trainer for NWS forecasters on NEXRAD, the Doppler Executive Director weather radars researched and developed by NSSL scientists, American Indian Business Leaders which are now critical to NWS operations. Prairie Bighorn grew up on the Northern Cheyenne reservation in eastern Montana and is an enrolled member of the Fort Peck Sioux Tribe. She graduated from Rocky Mountain College with a bachelor’s degree in Business, and

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Dr. Aaron Bolin Inc.. She spent nearly two decades working in the energy Director, Performance Management Division (PERS-21) sector in operations, engineering, sustainability, and risk United States Navy management. In 2016, Deanna redirected her own energy Dr. Aaron Bolin serves as the Director of Performance towards engineering consulting, professional speaking, Management for Pay and Personnel Management at the Navy post-secondary STEM curriculum “Indigenization”, petroleum Personnel Command. He also serves as a direct commission upstream, midstream and pipeline training for government, Human Resources Officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He industry and Indigenous communities and Innovation and completed his doctoral work in Industrial/Organizational Inclusion Culture workshops. She leads mentoring circles for Psychology at Northern Illinois University in 2002 and is Indigenous people in STEM, business and entrepreneurship certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP), a and works with organizations seeking to improve their Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), and a Lean relationships with Indigenous communities. She is a co- Six Sigma Black Belt (LSSBB). founder of the Empowered Innovation Experience and IndigeSTEAM – an Indigenous Youth Outreach non-profit. Ms. Rachel Breckenridge As a Director with the APEGA Foundation and Indigenous Mathematics Instructor, Director Math Advisor to the United Way, her volunteer efforts are focused Prep for STEM Careers Program around Indigenous youth and community outreach, and University of Minnesota Duluth it is her dream to see more diverse perspectives in STEM Rachel Breckenridge is a math instructor and director for the professions. Math Prep for STEM Careers Summer Bridge Program at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She is an AISES co-advisor, Dr. Stephanie Carroll Rainie Udall Foundation faculty representative, and is working with Ahtna Athabascan others to develop programs in Tribal Resource Environmental Assistant Professor in the Public Health Pol- Stewardship. She started her teaching career as a high school icy and Management Program math teacher at the Fond du Lac Ojibwe school and still University of Arizona / Native Nations Institute teaches at the Gidakiimanaaniwigamig Science Camps for Stephanie Carroll Rainie (Ahtna Athabascan), DrPH, MPH, Native American youth located near Cloquet, Minnesota. is based at the University of Arizona where she is Assistant Professor in the Public Health Policy and Management Mr. John Bunch Program at the Community, Environment and Policy President Department, Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Pervasive Gaming Health; Assistant Research Professor, Udall Center for Studies Mr. Bunch’s extensive tribal gaming experience provides in Public Policy; Assistant Professor, American Indian Studies Pervasive with an unparalleled opportunity to significantly Graduate Interdisciplinary Program; Associate Director, Native expand its business. Mr. Bunch is a voting tribal member of Nations Institute in the Udall Center for Studies in Public the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and has spent over 15 Policy; and Assistant Director for the Center for Indigenous years dedicated to the expansion of gaming in the tribal Environmental Health Research. Stephanie’s research explores community. Prior to joining Pervasive, John was the lead slot the links between governance, health care, the environment, placement consultant for Next Gaming and Executive Vice and community wellness. She is a co-founder of the U.S. President of EC Development. His background is based in Indigenous Data Sovereignty Network and the International Class II & III slot deployment and casino player based software Indigenous Data Sovereignty Interest Group at the Research systems. With installations and management of slots and or Data Alliance. Stephanie is an enrolled citizen of the Native player tracking systems in Oklahoma, Michigan, California, Village of Kluti-Kaah. Wisconsin, Alabama, Montana, Maine, Mexico, Caribbean Islands, Turks & Caicos, Italy and Africa. Mr. Bunch is a member Mr. Michael Charles of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and very strongly Dine believes in strengthening the tribal community in every way Research Associate he can. He is a father of three wonderful children and looks The Ohio State University forward to his time with them. Michael has developed a love for the world through many years of exploring Mother Earth’s beauty, respecting her Ms. Deanna Burgart gifts, and interacting with cultures across the globe. Hailing Fond du Lac First Nation, Saskatchewan Canada from the Southwest, Michael’s family is from both the Navajo P.Eng, CET (Canada - Professional Engineer, reservation in northeast Arizona and also northern Colorado, Certified Engineering Technologist) where his parents currently live. Michael attended Cornell Indigenous Engineering Inclusion Inc University, studying chemical engineering with a minor in Deanna Burgart is a self-proclaimed “Indigeneer” (Indigenous music. At Cornell, he developed a strong sense of his own Engineer) and president of Indigenous Engineering Inclusion cultural identity, a passion for serving underrepresented

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students in the STEM fields, and began questioning how Dr. Nicole Colston sustainability issues affect different communities. His research Research Faculty interests transitioned from biomedical research towards Oklahoma State University sustainability within the scope of engineering. Currently, Nicole Colston, Ph.D., is a Research Faculty in the Center for Michael is a chemical engineering Ph.D. student at The Ohio Research in STEM Teaching at Oklahoma State University. She State University. His research explores how ecological systems is an National Science Foundation (NSF) Science Engineering can be included into technological design to expand the and Education for Sustainability Fellow. She has a PhD in boundaries of traditional engineering and find innovative Environmental Science from Oklahoma State University solutions that promote sustainability without jeopardizing (2014). Dr. Colston and her colleagues have recently economic competitiveness. published “Collaborating for early-age career awareness: Ms. Chelsea Chee A comparison of three instructional formats. Journal of Navajo Engineering Education (2017)” and “Addressing the call to increase high school students’ STEM awareness. Science Program Officer Education (2016)”. AISES Chelsea Chee (Navajo) is a newly minted Program Officer Ms. Bree Cooper with AISES. She will be focusing on the Lighting the Pathway, Systems Engineer the ASSIST, the National American Indian Virtual Science and The Boeing Company Engineering Fair, the Energy Challenge, the Natives in STEM Bree Cooper is a recent graduate of the University of project, and the Full Circle Mentorship programs. Chelsea’s Oklahoma (2018) with a degree in Chemical Engineering/ academic STEM journey began with her 5th grade AISES Biotechnology. She is fascinated with space and would love science fair project on the energy efficiency of traditional to diverge her career into that area eventually. She is currently Native dwellings, to a science degree from the University on the AWACS team as a Systems Engineer and a professional of Arizona. Originally from Arizona, Chelsea now lives in (as well as involved) member of the American Indian Science Albuquerque with her husband and his chicken named and Engineering Society (AISES). Boots. Chelsea fills her spare time with extra work at a locally- owned beaded jewelry company called ETKIE, keeping up to Ms. Carla Corl date on the latest movies, trying to read a book per month, Tataviam and listening to podcasts. She also proudly represents the Software Development Engineer Ravenclaw house. Amazon Carla Corl is a member of the Fernandeno Tataviam Band of Dr. Karletta Chief Mission Indians, graduate of California State University, Long Dine Beach, loves jets, math, and software development. Carla Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist is a proud mother of three and is a Software Development University of Arizona Engineer for Amazon. Dr. Karletta Chief (Diné) is an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist in the Department of Soil, Water, Mr. Eric Daugherty and Environmental Sciences at the University of Arizona Application Engineering Specialist (UA). Her research focuses on understanding, tools, and 3M predictions of watershed hydrology, unsaturated flow in arid Eric Daugherty is an Application Engineering Specialist for 3M environments, and how natural and human disturbances in St. Paul, Minnesota. He grew up in Claremore, Oklahoma impact water resources. She received a BS and MS in Civil and and graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a BS in Environmental Engineering from Stanford in 1998 and 2000 Chemical Engineering. and her PhD in Hydrology at UA in 2007. In 2011, Dr. Chief Ms. Dominique David-Chavez was named the American Indian Science and Engineering Taíno Society (AISES) Most Promising Scientist/Scholar, 2015 Native PhD Candidate American 40 under 40, 2016 AISES Professional of the Year, Colorado State University 2016 Phoenix Indian Center Woman of the Year, and 2017 Dominique David-Chavez (Taíno) is a member of the Stanford University Multi-Cultural Hall of Fame Inductee. Indigenous community of Borikén in the U.S. Caribbean. Through her hydrology extension programs to reduce She is a PhD Candidate and “Indiginerd” in the Human disparities in water and water related-education, since 2011, Dimensions of Natural Resources department at Colorado she has driven ~88,000 miles to tribes and has conducted State University and earned her Bachelor of Science degree 113 community presentations. at Montana State University in Earth Sciences. She is currently working as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow in Caribbean Indigenous communities on community-

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based climate research projects that engage youth, elders, avidly studying computer science and immersing herself educators and farmers as researchers. Research interests into the world of tech. She was introduced to the Grace include geospatial sciences, informal science education, Hopper Celebration in 2014 when she was encouraged by climate, phenology, traditional agriculture, research ethics, her professor to apply for a scholarship. She was awarded a and Indigenous knowledge systems. registration and attended as a Hopper! In February of 2015, she founded the Systers’ Affinity Community, Native American Mr. Kaya DeerInWater Women in Computing. Andrea joined AnitaB.org as an intern Citizen Band of Potawatomi (Oklahoma) for the Communities Team in July 2015 and is now the Graduate Student Program Manager for Systers and GHC Communities. Andrea State University of New York - College of collaborated with Google and Udacity to develop a course Environmental Science and Forestry on Android Basics: Multiscreen Apps and it launched in June Kaya DeerInWater is from the Citizen Band of Potawatomi of this year. This app was developed to inspire language in Oklahoma. He grew up in California but spent much preservation among her tribe and other communities of his time traveling to see friends and family all over the whose languages are in danger of being lost. The course western U.S. He is currently pursuing his Master’s degree features Andrea’s native language, Miwok. At GHC 2016 she in Biocultural Restoration at SUNY-ESF in Syracuse, New moderated a panel about “How Women Learn Computing York. In 2015 he graduated from the University of California, Through Nontraditional Curriculum and Community” and Davis with a Bachelor of Science in Ecological Restoration at GHC 2017 was a panelist for “The Myth of the Unicorn: and Management. During his time at Davis, he worked Perspectives of Native American Women in Computing”. as a research assistant in labs whose work ranged from She volunteers with AAUW and Expanding Your Horizons to hydrochorous seed dispersal of riparian species to post- teach coding workshops to middle school girls at their annual fire regeneration and from chemical plant defenses to conference. Andrea is also planning to host workshops at herbivory by insects. His research interests center around how the local community center, Intertribal Friendship House in traditional knowledge contributes to resilience in a changing Oakland to teach coding and programming fundamentals to world. Specifically, he’s interested in how indigenous the Native American community. communities maintain and adapt their Traditional Plant Knowledge after removal from their traditional homelands. Ms. Dana Desiderio He wants his research to have a practical application for Navajo Indigenous communities. Student Navajo Technical University Ms. Yvonne Deffenbaugh-Houghton Dana Desiderio is an undergraduate student at the Navajo Cherokee Nation Technical University in the Dine Culture, Language and Organizational Capability Coordina- Leadership Program. tor/ETC Horizons Process Advisor Chevron Corporation Dr. Beverly DeVore-Wedding Yvonne Deffenbaugh-Houghton has worked in the Oil and Post-doctorate Gas Industry for 22 years, the last ten with the Chevron University of Nebraska-Lincoln Corporation. She is the Chevron Recruiting Team Lead Dr. Beverly DeVore-Wedding is a post-doctorate with the at the University of Texas Austin and the annual AISES Framing the Chemistry Curriculum at the Nebraska Indian National Conference. Her current role allows her to be Community College, the Little Priest Tribal College, and a key component in recruiting top quality talent for the the University of Nebraska-Lincoln consortium providing Professional Intern Program and Graduates seeking full-time sustainable chemistry and indigenized lab experiences. opportunities. These relationships help build, develop and Ms. Jodi DiLascio deliver a future world class workforce. Director Tribal Gaming Mrs. Andrea Delgado-Olson BMM Testlabs Ione Band of Miwok Indians Jodi is BMM Testlabs liaison to Tribal Gaming Regulators and Program Manager, Systers and GHC Communities and Operators across the United States and Canada. Jodi also sits Founder, Native American Women in Computing as a member of the NIGA Board of Directors. Jodi’s primary AnitaB.org responsibilities are maintaining relationships and regulatory Andrea Delgado-Olson is a Computer Science Graduate outreach to Tribal Gaming Regulators, Tribal Governments Student, Program Manager, and Founder. She started and Tribal Gaming Operators. In her role, Jodi matches the her journey into tech when she attended Mills College in unique needs of our clients with BMM’s knowledge, abilities Oakland, California, to complete her Bachelor’s Degree in and resources. Jodi’s passion to play a part in improving Education which she completed in May 2014. She has been access and opportunities for the next generation of tribal youth nationwide was instrumental in BMM’s creation of

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BMM’s Next Generation Initiative. The Initiative was created currently exploring ways to give back. as a way for BMM to provide financial donations to Native Dr. Roger Dube American non profits who’s missions and goals fall into the areas of access to Education, improving the health and lives Mohawk of Native youth and organizations which offer effective Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Research leadership development of Native youth and empower Rochester Institute of Technology them to carry on their languages, traditions and cultural Dr. Roger Dube received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics from knowledge. Cornell University and his PhD from Princeton University. Currently he is Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Research Dr. Franklin Dollar and Professor in the Center for Imaging Science at RIT. Dry Creek Band of Pomo Indians He has held positions at Kitt Peak and Caltech’s JPL, the Assistant Professor University of Michigan, the University of Arizona, and Yale University of California, Irvine University. He became an executive at IBM’s Research Division Dr. Franklin Dollar is a member of the Dry Creek Band of in Yorktown Heights, NY and commercialized the Atomic Pomo Indians of Northern California and is a faculty member Force Microscope. He has served the National Academy of in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at University of Sciences on behalf of the Ford Foundation Graduate Program California, Irvine. His research interests involve laser plasma for Minorities. He has been an entrepreneur starting two interactions with ultrafast laser systems, performing high companies within the last 18 years. He has obtained multiple intensity laser experiments for tabletop particle acceleration National Science Foundation and New York State research and the generation of x-rays. He is involved with a variety grants. Dr. Dube is a AISES Sequoyah Fellow. He is Mohawk, of recruitment and retention efforts for underrepresented Turtle clan and he helped found the Iroquois White Corn students in STEM fields, with a particular focus on American Project at Ganondagan. He holds 25 issued patents and has Indians. He has numerous recognitions for his work both in published a textbook on computer security. science and outreach, including the John Dawson Thesis Ms. Tammy Eagle Bull Prize, the AISES Most Promising Scientist Award, and is a Sloan Research Fellow. He is an education lead for the Oglala Lakota National Science Foundation (NSF) Science and Technology President Center STROBE, and is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award. Encompass Architects In 2002 Tammy co-founded Encompass Architects, PC, a Ms. Margaret Dougherty national firm headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska. She is Operations Manager, School of Health Sciences a licensed architect with nearly 30 years of architectural Mayo Clinic design and project management experience and is the first Margaret Dougherty is an Operations Manager in the recognized female Native American architect. Tammy is an Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences and serves on the enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Nation. Encompass Mayo Clinic Midwest Education Committee. After working Architects is a Native American, Woman-owned business in the Mayo Clinic Public Affairs for 20 years, she joined offering full services architectural design to clients across the the Education team and co-created the Career Immersion nation. Tammy strives to understand and express the cultural Program to introduce health careers to diverse students from values of her clients in the buildings she designs. Minnesota high schools, including American Indian learners. Mrs. Deborah Easter Ms. Jeri Dube Pima/Pueblo heritage Communications Consultant Financial Advisor Since 1983, Jeri Dube has worked for or with businesses Wells Fargo Advisors - from some of the world’s most successful technology Deborah Easter is a Financial Advisor at Wells Fargo Advisors. companies to start-ups that never quite made it. And during She has been involved in the Tulsa community for many years that time, she’s seen her career as a spiral staircase. She and has previously served on the board of directors for the advanced upward as she tried various functions necessary Greater Tulsa Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, a City of Tulsa for running an organization including evaluating the Commission’s board and the Domestic Violence Intervention performance of I/O devices, selling point of sale systems to Services. Deborah is the founder and president of the Tulsa New York City based retailers and optimizing manufacturing Latina Business Women, which serves to help raise the high lines. She found her niche in communications ten years school and college graduation rates among Tulsa’s youth. into her career with IBM. Since then she has delved into Though not raised traditional, Deborah is equally proud of her marketing, and employee and executive communications. Pima and Pueblo heritage. Mrs. Easter received her Bachelor’s Most recently, she worked for the Oracle Corporation as the Degree from Our Lady of the Lake University of San Antonio communications lead for the 2,500-person North American and a Masters in Organizational Management from the inside sales team. She retired from Oracle in May 2018 and is University of Phoenix. A native of San Antonio, Texas, Deborah

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has lived in Oklahoma for the last 18 years with her husband faceted role providing guidance on Tribal Consultation and Calvin and their three children. outreach to Tribes. Ms. Crystal Echo Hawk Ms. Lynnetta Eyachabbe Pawnee Muscogee-Creek/Euchee President Information Technology Analyst Echo Hawk Consulting University of Oklahoma Crystal Echo Hawk (Pawnee) is President and CEO of Echo Lynnetta J. Eyachabbe is Muscogee-Creek and Euchee, Hawk Consulting. The mission of Echo Hawk Consulting originally from Coweta, Oklahoma and now resides in is to help to create new platforms, narratives, strategies Norman, Oklahoma. She has worked at the University of and investment that can help to catalyze transformational Oklahoma for over 10 years in the OU Information Technology change for and by Native Americans. It partners with Native department. She received her Bachelor of Business American, philanthropic and diverse multi-sector partners to Administration in Management Information Systems from move hearts and minds, and drive institutional, policy and the Michael F. Price College of Business at the University of culture change. Its founder Crystal Echo Hawk, was recently Oklahoma. Currently, she works for the OU IT Security team recognized by the National Center for American Indian working with compliance and oversees the Information Economic Development as its 2018 “Native American Woman Security Awareness and Education program on campus. Business Owner of the Year.” Lynnetta serves as the Staff Advisor for the OU Chapter of AISES and has served on the OU American Indian Alumni Dr. Allison Empey Society board as President and Member at Large. Lynnetta The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde also, has a passion for promoting higher education to the Assistant Professior next generation, and works with the Oklahoma Professional Oregon Health and Science University Chapter of AISES and the Oklahoma Women in Technology to Allison Empey is a member of the Confederated Tribes of help promote STEM programs and opportunities. Grand Ronde and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at OHSU. She is newly stepping in to her role as the Mr. Mark Fairbanks Deputy Director of the Northwest Native American Center Ojibway of Excellence and will be focusing her efforts on Native Senior Test Engineering Specialist American curriculum development in our School of Medicine 3M and the Tribal Health Scholars Program. Mark A Fairbanks High School: Centennial High School (1981) College: Anoka Ramsey Community College, General Ms. Karen English Education (1983) North Hennepin Vocational Technical Editor Institute (1984) University of Minnesota, B.S. Mechanical Winds of Change (AISES) Engineering (1996) Tribal Affiliation: White Earth, Ojibwe In tandem with a career in publishing, Karen has been Born in St. Paul, MN. As a child enjoyed sports and the teaching college courses since she finished graduate school. outdoors. After graduation from high school completed a She has counseled countless students and can speak to the two-year General Education Degree. Pursued a trade skill “good fit” factors that are the foundation of college success. and completed a one year Diesel Mechanic program. In 1990 Mr. Carl Etsitty went on to attend night school at University of Minnesota in Navajo pursuit of a Mechanical Engineering degree. 3M employment Assistant Director/Office of Nation- history: • 1994 & 1995, Internship • 1996 – 2000, Design al Tribal Liaison, USDA-APHIS Engineer (3M Engineering) • 2000 – 2004, Sr. Technical Service USDA/APHIS Engineer (Automotive Division) • 2004 – 2014, Lead Test Carl Etsitty, Tódich’ii’nii and Tó’áhani clans of the Diné (Navajo) Engineer (Automotive Division) • 2014 – 2018, US Application people. He is an honorably discharged U.S. Navy veteran. Engineering Group Leader, Sr. Global Application Engineering He has BS and MS degrees in Soil, Water and Environmental Specialist (Automotive and Aerospace Solutions Division) • Sciences from the University of Arizona. His graduate research 2018 – Present, Sr. Test Engineering Specialist (Electronics and involved developing rapid detection for human pathogens. Energy Business Group Lab) While with the EPA, product chemistry and health human Ms. Breanna Faris risk assessor for new biological pesticide registration. He Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma assisted the need for Tribal Science Council using Complexity Assistant Director, Student Life and GAIA Theories reinforcing tribal science. He worked with University of Oklahoma USDA/APHIS as a regional biotechnologist, Plant Protection Breanna Faris is a Cheyenne and Arapaho tribal member from and Quarantine Tribal Liaison, and he is now the Tribal Liaison Watonga, Oklahoma. She is a student affairs professional and for the Office of National Tribal Liaison, serving in a multi- doctoral student at the University of Oklahoma.

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Mrs. Donna Fernandez and social scientific research. She received her PhD in medical Southeastern Pomo anthropology from the University of Florida and has a MA in Teacher environmental anthropology from the University of Miami Navajo Preparatory School for her work on the anthropological aspects of ecosystem Donna Fernandez is Southeastern Pomo from Elem Indian management. Colony in Clearlake Oaks, California. She graduated from UC Mr. Loga Fixico Davis in 1994 with a BA in two majors – Mathematics and Seminole Nation of Oklahoma Native American Studies. She is a math teacher at the Navajo Graduate Student Preparatory School (Farmington, New Mexico) and also the State University of New York - College of Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement (MESA) Environmental Science and Forestry Advisor. She is the Regional Coordinator for the Four Corners Loga Fixico is a member of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma, Math Teacher’s Circle. She is a community advocate for but was raised Blackfeet and Salish on the Flathead Indian increasing math interest and student direction to a career in Reservation in Montana. He’s just finished his first year of STEM. a master’s program in biocultural restoration at the State Mrs. Susan Filkins University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Natural Resource Specialist Forestry. As a student of science, he’s come to realize that our DOI/Bureau of Land Management, Natural Resource only home is on the precipice of global ecological disaster. Specialist, Idaho BLM State Office Tribal Liaison When he first realized this, Loga felt anger and sadness, and Susan Filkins is a Natural Resource Specialist (Botany and then he felt joy and elation when he realized that this is Ecology) for the Bureau of Land Management for 15 years, not only a time of unprecedented challenges but a time for where she works in the Resources and Science Branch (Native unprecedented change as well. Humanity has an opportunity Plants Program). Currently, Susan assists the Shoshone – to shift the paradigm to one that embraces the ecosystems Paiute Tribes of the Duck Valley Indian Reservation and of the world as partners in economic and cultural well-being. the Shoshone – Bannock Tribes of the Ft. Hall Reservation Loga believes we can find the answers by working together, with native plant propagation and greenhouse business and by learning how to learn again. development. Susan also educates junior and high school Mr. Andrew Fletcher students on biology, botany, and greenhouse germination of Cherokee Nation native plants, vegetable gardens and is a committee member Lead Engineer of the Duck Valley Garden and Hoop House Initiative. She is GE Aviation a member of the Intertribal Nursery Council. Susan has been Andrew Fletcher was born and raised in southwest Oklahoma awarded the U.S. Department of the Interior Honor Award, close to many Native reservations. He earned his Bachelor Society of American Indian Government Employees (SAIGE) of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering (BSME) at Achievement Award, U.S. Boy Scouts, and Job Corps awards. the University of Oklahoma. While studying, he became Susan’s father was a member of the Cherokee Nation (Wolf involved with his college’s AISES chapter, eventually taking a Clan). leadership role as chapter co-lead. It was during his first AISES Dr. Symma Finn national conference in 2006 that he successfully interviewed Program Officer for a summer co-op at GE Aviation. Upon returning for his National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences second summer co-op, Andrew interviewed for and was Dr. Symma Finn has been a scientific research administrator accepted into GE’s Cornerstone program. Andrew has now since 1984 in academia, for a nonprofit organization, and been at GE Aviation for almost a decade, and has enjoyed at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She joined the seven distinct roles during that time. He is currently working National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in the exciting world of Additive Manufacturing, overcoming in 2011 after concluding an American Association for the the challenges of understanding a continuously developing Advancement of Science (AAAS) Policy Fellowship at the new technology to successfully create 3D printed jet engine NIH. Dr. Finn administers community-engaged and social components in both prototyping and production functions. scientific research and develops new areas of interest in Ms. Nedlaya Francisco communications and environmental health literacy. She Navajo oversees the Centers of Excellence for Environmental Health Firmware Engineer Disparities Research and outreach and dissemination in the Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Program. Dr. IBM Finn is the NIEHS point of contact for Tribal research and Nedlaya Francisco (Navajo) is a Firmware Engineering serves on several NIH and trans-federal committees related Professional in the IBM Systems Group. She earned a BS to Traditional Ecological Knowledge, environmental justice in Computer Engineering from the University of Arizona.

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Nedlaya is a member of the Arizona Native Diversity Network through other organizations. Her focus is to help more Native Group that does outreach to the surrounding Native American and Hispanic Students to get into STEM and more American community in Tucson, Arizona. specifically Chemistry. Mr. Dodson Frank Mr. Will Fuentes Seminole Nation of Oklahoma Entrepreneur Chair Maestro Group American Indian/Alaska Native Commissioned Will Fuentes is a co-founder of Maestro Group. He empowers Officers Advisory Committee sales teams to maximize their potential. Will focuses on Lieutenant Commander Dodson Frank is a proud member teaching both hard and soft sales skills and identifies of the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma. He is currently the opportunities to improve sales efficiencies. His unique 2018 Chair of the United States Public Health Service background and perspective guide his training principles, (USPHS) Commissioned Corps American Indian Alaska Native and he is motivated to help individuals and organizations sell Commissioned Corps Advisory Committee. He is assigned more, faster. Will has worked for some of the largest retailers, to the Indian Health Service (IHS) as the Southeast Region honing his skills as a salesperson, sales leader, and innovator. Commissioned Corps Liaison. He is a graduate from the In 2011 he founded Lemur Retail, a first-of-its-kind, in-store, University of Oklahoma and is currently enrolled in Oklahoma associate clienteling and assisted sales app. After Lemur, Will State University to obtain his Masters in Health Care worked with various companies, consulting on sales and Administration. Prior to joining the USPHS he served in the marketing. Will is a graduate of Virginia Tech and The George United States Marine Corps (USMC) as a Nuclear, Biological, Washington University Law School. Not finding the fulfillment Chemical Warfare Specialist. he was looking for in law, Will transitioned to retail, a career move he assumed would be temporary. In retail, he quickly Dr. Walter Franz found success, excitement, opportunity, and the fulfillment Family Medicine he was looking for. Mayo Clinic Dr. Walter Franz is a Family Medicine physician at the Mayo Cora Gaane Clinic and a retired colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve. During Senior Relationship Manager and National his military tenure, he was deployed three times to Iraq and Tribal Advocate, Enterprise Diversity once to Afghanistan, serving in trauma units and combat Inclusion & Strategic Philanthropy, hospitals in the field. Dr. Franz currently chairs the Veterans Wells Fargo Bank Mayo Employee Resource Group (MERG), which supports Cora Gaane has extensive experience in lending, financial the needs of current Mayo military members and their services & Philanthropy. •Leads the deployment of WFB’s families. It leverages the knowledge of Mayo veterans, past $50MM AI/AN Philanthropic 5-year commitment (2018-2022). and present, to shape policy and improve patient care, and •One of the pioneers in tribal gaming lending at WFB and in fosters an environment for providing leadership in research the banking industry. •She serves on tribal advisory boards and education to benefit military members everywhere. and volunteers for Tribal and Filipino community youth Activities of the Veterans MERG members include taking events promoting financial education, entrepreneurship part in hiring fairs that focus on veterans, hosting programs and leadership. •Cora’s community volunteer work includes with other MERGs to look at veterans’ issues, participating sharing her expertise and knowledge as a university/ in community events. Dr. Franz also coordinates training for college lecturer and as a speaker at various tribal events. a military trauma team, Mayo medical students, and many •41 Years Banking Experience (As a Gaming Lender and other programs for students. Tribal Advocate). •NFWF/WFB Resilient Communities Grant Selection Committee Member. •“Champion of Higher Ms. Victoria Fuentes Education” Recognition by AIGC in 2017 Project Manager American Chemical Society Executive Advisor – Enterprise Native Peoples Team Victoria Fuentes is currently a project manager at the Member Network. American Chemical Society (ACS). Her main responsibilities Ms. Deneen Garrett are managing ACS’ Sister Organization Relationships with Lead Consultant-Diversity AISES, SACNAS and UnidosUS, managing Diversity Programs’ AT&T various awards and she serves as Staff Liaison to the Deneen L. Garrett makes a difference in the lives of others American Chemical Society’s Women Chemists Committee. through diversity awareness, community involvement, and A native of Alexandria, Virginia she grew up in the DC area coaching and developing. Helping someone reach his or her and received her degree at George Mason University. She goals and dreams helps her understand her purpose. As a has worked for the American Chemical Society for 10 years lead consultant-diversity with AT&T, Deneen is responsible and enjoys the relationships she has made connecting

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for the company’s Global Corporate diversity strategy – Mrs. Carol Goodgame specifically the Hispanic/Latino; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, STEM Program Specialist Transgender, and Queer (LGBTQ); and Native American Kiss Institute for Practical Robotics segments. She also works closely with the External/Legislative Carol Goodgame is a STEM Coordinator at the KISS Institute and Public Affairs, Supplier Diversity, Talent Acquisition and for Practical Robotics. She graduated from New Mexico State Talent Development organizations as well as the related University where she received her Master’s in Education. Mrs. Employee Resource Groups or ERGs. Deneen also has over Goodgame has been heavily involved in education; holding 20 years of experience successfully leading customer service, many titles such as a K-12 teacher, Science Fair Director, Gear- sales and operational teams. Whether it’s building a talent up Leader, Best Robotics Coach, Science Olympiad Coach, pipeline, mechanizing the way work is done or reducing Business Professionals of America Coach, and Co-Founder of costs, Deneen attributes much of her success to the art of K-6 Science Games, just to name a few. After a successful and relationship (team) building, leadership skills and training/ rewarding 25 years of teaching, Mrs. Goodgame transitioned mentoring. Deneen loves to travel (recientemente viajó a to a STEM Specialist at the University of Oklahoma where Cartagena), turn work trips into adventures (who knew there she helped design and provide professional development was a beach at the end of that train route), and learning and for teachers throughout the state of Oklahoma. In addition trying new things (“Yes”!) to all this, Mrs. Goodgame also volunteered for seven years Mr. Daniel Glenn at the KISS Institute for Practical Robotics. While volunteering Crow Tribe of Montana she was inspired by the 6-12th grade Botball program and envisioned a program developed for younger students. Architect Her vision turned into collaboration with KIPR to develop 7 Directions Architects / Planners the Junior Botball Challenge curriculum. Currently, Mrs. Daniel J. Glenn (Apsáalooke Nation), AIA, AICAE, is the Goodgame provides professional development for the Principal Architect of 7 Directions Architects/Planners, a Muscogee (Creek) Nation Junior Botball Challenge, and other Native American-owned firm based in Seattle, Washington, teachers throughout the United States. She continues to specializing in culturally and environmentally responsive develop and expand the curriculum to be at the cutting edge architecture and planning. Mr. Glenn, a graduate of the MIT of STEM. School of Architecture and Planning and Montana State University School of Architecture, has more than 30 years Mr. Steve Goodgame of experience in architectural practice and he has taught Executive Director architectural design at the University of Washington, Arizona KISS Institute for Practical Robotics State University, Montana State University and the Boston Steve Goodgame is the executive director of the KISS Architectural Center. Mr. Glenn’s work reflects his Apsáalooke Institute for Practical Robotics, an independent nonprofit (Crow) tribal heritage. He has been featured in the 2005 film, organization based in Norman, Oklahoma. The organization Indigenous Architecture / Living Architecture, by Mushkeg utilizes autonomous robots to actively engage elementary, Media and the book, Design Re-Imagined: New Architecture middle and high school students in computer science, on Indigenous Lands published in 2013 by the University technology, engineering, science and math. The flagship of Minnesota Press. Daniel is part of a team of Indigenous program Botball® currently serves over 8,000 students and architects led by Douglas Cardinal representing Indigenous 400 teachers nationwide while being implemented in 16 architects at the 2018 Venice Biennale. countries. Mr. Goodgame is responsible for the development Mrs. LaTanya Goh of the Junior Botball Challenge that focuses on empowering K-12 teachers to use robots to teach their students math Navajo and science concepts. He is extremely passionate about Mechanical Engineer empowering teachers to use inquiry-based activities with Raytheon their students. LaTanya is a Mechanical Engineer at Raytheon Missile Systems for the Close-In Weapon Systems program in Tucson, Arizona. Mr. Alex Grandon She is responsible for incorporating mechanical design MAIANSE Student Engagement Lead changes to the Phalanx, Searam and Land-based Phalanx NASA Weapon Systems. Her experience with Raytheon has spanned NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project 15 years and includes drafting, test, hardware design, and for American Indian and Alaska Native STEM Engagement manufacturing. LaTanya is a member of the Navajo Nation (MAIANSE) seeks to serve American Indian and Alaska originally from Flagstaff, Arizona. As a first generation Native (AI/AN) communities in building their capacity in college graduate, LaTanya received a Bachelor of Science in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), Mechanical Engineering from Northern Arizona University in particularly by using NASA’s unique experiential learning 2003. opportunities to engage with students at Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) and other AI/AN-serving institutions. 2018 AISES National Conference Program 2018 AISES National Conference Program 63 PRESENTERS

Ms. Joni Graves Ainsworth Game Technologies Central Determined Gaming Administrative Coordinator Group. In her role with Ainsworth, Michelle leads a team Chevron Corporation of system engineers who are responsible for the installs, Joni Graves has worked for Chevron for 29 years. She is upgrades, conversions and troubleshooting for all of the an administrative coordinator responsible for diversity Central Determined System based gaming products which conference coordination in Chevron’s Diversity and Inclusion includes Class II, Historical Horse Racing and Washington organization. State Video Lottery Terminals. Her team is responsible for over 2000 units operating in the field across all three server based Ms. Talia Graves product lines. Before joining Ainsworth Gaming Technology Klamath in 2016, Michelle worked for Nova Gaming Systems based Customer Engineering and Payloads Design in Greenville South Carolina for over a decade. She began Center Executive Office Administrator her career at Nova starting as a executive Adminstrator and The Boeing Company working her way through the organization to become a field Talia is an enrolled member of the Klamath Tribe. In 2008, technician then into a systems engineering role with the I decided to pursue a college education. I was awarded organization. Michele’s industry experience and expertise the American Indian College Fund scholarship every year. played a critical role in the successful integration and initial I graduated with a certificate in Office Professions and success of the Class II product line when Ainsworth acquired in addition I created my own Individualized Associate of Nova in January of 2016. She was based in Tulsa during her Technical Arts Degree. In 2009, I enrolled in Digital Media tenure with Nova and recently relocated to the Ainsworth and Web Design classes. I have three Adobe Associate world headquarters in Las Vegas Nevada. Michelle is an Certifications in Dreamweaver, Flash, and Photoshop. I was enrolled member of the Hidatsa Tribe, part of the Three the first female to complete the Flash certificate. I was also Affiliated Tribes located in central North Dakota. certified to shoot rockets. As Treasurer of the rocket club I asked Dr. Crazy Bull, (President of AICF and former President Mr. Rob Harper of NWIC), to sponsor our new club to compete in the First Communications Director Nations Launch. We took a trophy back to school. I attended Tribal Energy Resource the Tribal College in Lummi and the satellite site in Tulalip. I Robert Harper is a stakeholder relations expert in energy, also took some classes online. As a contractor at Boeing, I was infrastructure, and natural resource development. His chosen to be a certified Subject Matter Expert for travel. I’m a 15-plus years of policy and public affairs experience former secretary of the Boeing Native American Society. I’ve specialized in indigenous and tribal stakeholder relations. also been a board member on diversity councils. When I was He also has advanced training and experience in conflict in the Structures Design Center we won the Diversity Council resolution, natural resource management, infrastructure Honors Award. planning, and public relations. He advised state and federal agencies, industry and institutional executives, and Mr. Solo Greene project managers for contentious infrastructure projects Nez Perce and programs. These entailed complex indigenous and Education Specialist municipal stakeholder relations, agency interface, policy Nez Perce Tribe issues, and political and public affairs planning. His recent Solo Greene is an enrolled member of the Nez Perce Nation, work in energy development advised tribal governments and is an Education Specialist for the Nez Perce Tribe. He has about environmental risk management and government- worked for the Nez Perce Tribe and has been in the education to-government relations. Harper’s experience includes field for over 20 years. significant engagement with large-scale development in the Ms. Sarah Gumina context of climate change, agency research programs, and indigenous population impacts. His background also entails Project Engineer extensive work with U.S. federal Indian law and policy, and 3M Canadian policy regarding First Nations, Crown consultation, Sarah Gumina is a Project Engineer for 3M in St. Paul social license, and aboriginal title claims. Minnesota. She studied Aeronautical and Mechanical engineering at Clarkson University in upstate NY. She grew Mr. Zach Harris up in the greater Rochester, New York area where she loves to Engagement Specialist bring her dog, Peter, to go visit family over the holidays. Google Ms. Michele Hannah As an Engagement Specialist, Zach oversees Google’s participation at conferences like AISES, Grace Hopper, NSBE CDG Senior Systems Engineer and more to ensure that Google is finding and developing Ainsworth Game Technology students interested in a career at Google. While at Google, Michelle Hannah is the Senior Systems Engineer for

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he’s been able to put on events across the world, has done Ms. Sandra Hope short term rotations at YouTube and for a team in Brazil, and Haliwa-Saponi Tribe of NC has lead the social strategy for one of Google’s social media Managing Consultant accounts. Prior to Google, Zach was a Teach For America IBM teacher in Oklahoma, where he taught 8th grade math. Sandra Hope is a PeopleSoft Human Capital Management Ms. Susan Haynes Consultant on the Veterans Affairs project at IBM in Herndon, Education Program Manager Virginia. Born and raised in North Carolina, Sandra’s first two NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research years of elementary school were at the Haliwa-Saponi Tribal Susan Haynes is the Education Program Manager at NOAA’s School where she first began to learn the culture of the Office of Ocean Exploration and Research. consolidated Saponi Tribe. She received a BA in Management and Business in Virginia and has founded two businesses Ms. Heather Heckler that focus on Native American visibility and promotion in Brothertown commerce, causes, community, and culture. Senior Industrial Engineer Mr. Timothy Horan General Motors Company Executive Director Heather Heckler (Brothertown) is the Subject Matter Expert Round Valley Indian Housing Authority in Industrial Engineering with over 23 years of experience. Timothy has served as the Executive Director of Round Valley She leads a global team to define the computer application Indian Housing Authority, the Mescalero Apache Housing needs for Industrial Engineering. She has a BSIE from the Authority, the Chukchansi Indian Housing Authority, the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and a MSE from Rensselaer Navajo Partnership for Housing and currently the Spokane Polytechnic Institute. Heather is on the Leadership Council Indian Housing Authority. Timothy has had the opportunity for the Native American Cultural Network (NACN), and is to build housing developments on three Reservations. On an AISES member. Through her experience in Industrial the Spokane Reservation, he arrived to complete the lengthy Engineering and with NACN, Heather has had the and document intensive close out process for the recently opportunity to present at many different activities within constructed Spokane II Low Income Housing Tax Credit GM and at various AISES events. She is always excited to Development. He has worked with two tribal LIHTC projects. encourage students’ interest in STEM and ultimately their Timothy has assiduously cultivated partnerships with the pursuit of a career in STEM. Office of Native American Programs, the Bureau of Indian Dr. Pamela Heinselman Affairs, the NM and WA State Housing Finance Commissions, Research Scientist and Interm Division Manager USDA Rural Development, US Department of Energy NOAA/National Severe Storms Lab Renewable Energy, Rural Community Assistance Corporation, Dr. Pamela Heinselman is a supervisory meteorologist and Minnesota Housing Partnership, GRID Alternatives, Enterprise senior research scientist with the NOAA/National Severe Community Development, Federal Home Loan Bank Dallas Storms Laboratory, and an affiliate associate professor of and Des Moines, NeighborWorks America, Sustainable Native the University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology. Her Communities Collaborative and the Spokane Low Income research interests are the development and use of forecast Housing Consortium. and warning tools like phased array weather radar and Mr. Reese Hundley high-resolution numerical weather models for predicting Naturalist and Education Specialist tornadoes, hail, high winds, and flash flooding. Symbiotic Aquaponic Dr. Joseph Hoover Reese Hudley is a third-generation educator and avid Research Assistant Professor outdoorsman. Growing-up, he instigated his own STEM University of New Mexico activities like building forts at home in Yukon, Oklahoma and Dr. Joseph Hoover is a Research Assistant Professor with the fly fishing with his family in Colorado. He graduated from Community Environmental Health Program at the University Oklahoma State University in 2014, majoring in Biosystems of New Mexico. His research focuses on using geospatial tools Engineering focusing on Water Systems. After college, Reese and technology to assess and visualize the spatial aspects worked briefly as a cement engineer before following his of exposure to environmental chemicals and their health passion for nature. For three years, he served as a Naturalist impacts. He received a BA in Environmental Sciences from for Camp Loughridge Outdoor Classroom overseeing Northwestern University in 2007, a MA in Geography from program design, STEM, the ropes course and summer camp the University of Arizona in 2009, and a PhD in Geography programs. Reese enjoys working with educators and students from the University of Denver in 2014. He is the Community to critically explore modern ecological and social issues and Engagement Co-Director for the Center for Native American potential solutions. He is a technical consultant and educator Environmental Health Equity Research at the University of for Symbiotic Aquaponic and helps organizations meet their New Mexico. visions using aquaponic technology. 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platform to address ecological, social, economic, educational, Mrs. Sheri Jackson and health challenges. Reese resides with his wife and two Navajo sons in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. Software Engineer Mrs. Marlo Hunte-Beaubrun IBM Standing Rock Sioux Tribe Sheri Jackson (Navajo) is a Software Engineering Professional PhD Candidate, Entrepreneur, Speaker in the IBM Systems Group. She earned a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Arizona. Sheri is a member of the University of North Dakota Arizona Native Diversity Network Group that does outreach Marlo Hunte-Beaubrun is an enrolled member of the to the surrounding Native American community in Tucson, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, entrepreneur, student, Arizona. motivational speaker, business owner, and professional trainer. She is a wife, and mother of two. She loves to read, Dr. Sue Jacobs write, and spend days on the river relaxing in her free time. Professor She is an active member in her community and on her Oklahoma State University reservation. She is an advocate for women and women’s Sue C. Jacobs, Ph.D., is the Ledbetter Lemon Endowed empowerment issues in the state of North Dakota. She made Counseling Psychology Diversity Professor and a Professor in history as the youngest and first Native American woman to the School of Community Health Sciences, Counseling and run for a state office in North Dakota. She is determined to Counseling Psychology at Oklahoma State University. Her make a difference in her community and leave a legacy she research and scholarship includes increasing diversity in land- can be proud of for her children. grant universities, increasing social justice, and preparing Mr. Gage Hutchens future faculty. She also actively mentors American Indian Cherokee and other under-represented, often first generation students and faculty. She has over 65 publications and over 215 Systems Consultant professional presentations. She regularly presents to state and Wells Fargo local professional audiences and to campus and community Gage Hutchens, MA, MBA, is an AISES Sequoyah Fellow. groups. From 1999 to 2015 he was a successful San Francisco tech entrepreneur. He has consulted for Fortune 500 companies in Ms. Lydia Jennings the financial, pharma and tech industries. In 2013, he led the Pascua Yaqui creation and launch of a VC backed micro-cloud appliance Graduate Researcher tech startup. Currently he serves as a systems consultant with The University of Arizona Wells Fargo & Company and sits on the board of advisers for Lydia Jennings (Pascua Yaqui Tribe) is a PhD student at the Identity+, a security tech start-up. University of Arizona, in the Department of Soil, Water, Ms. Devon Isaacs, B.A. and Environmental Science, with a minor in American Cherokee Nation Indian Policy. Her research is focused on enhancing mining reclamation of active mining sites, by characterizing plants Graduate Student and bacteria that grow well on reclaimed mining sites in Utah State University arid ecosystems. Additionally, Lydia is interested in land Devon Isaacs is a member of the Cherokee Nation and management policies of tribal nations, specifically lands graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from Northeastern that are now occupied by National Parks. Lydia has a B.S. State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. After graduation in Environmental Science, Technology and Policy, from she applied for and was awarded a Post-Baccalaureate California State University-Monterey Bay. Lydia worked for Fellowship at the Seven Generations Center of Excellence in three years following her bachelor’s degree for the University Native American Behavioral Health at the University of North of California, Davis, as an environmental toxicologist, where Dakota where she continued her research to benefit Native she sampled and analyzed pesticide and metal contaminants American peoples before entering a graduate program. in the major California waterways, as well as evaluating the Currently, Devon is a doctoral student at Utah State University toxicity of hyper-saline brine on marine organisms. in the Clinical/Counseling Combined PhD program with an emphasis in Rural/Multicultural Psychology. She is a recipient Ms. Cherise John of the Presidential Doctoral Research (PDRF) Fellowship Navajo and the American Indian Support Project Scholarship. Her Edison Engineer research focuses on the intersection of culture and mental General Electric health, with an emphasis on risk and protective factors for Cherise John obtained a Master’s of Science degree in Native American youth. Devon has a passion for mentoring Mechanical Engineering at Northern Arizona University ethnic minority undergraduate students in conducting (NAU) in December 2015. In late 2012, she completed research to help diversify the field of psychology.

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her baccalaureate studies in the field of Environmental from Warsaw, Virginia, an area whose first people were Engineering with a minor in ME at NAU. She currently the Rappahannock Indians. Mr. Johnson graduated from works for General Electric (GE) Aviation and is part of the Hampton University and has a background involving distinguished Edison Engineering Development program. education. Currently, he serves on two boards: the Northern She’s had several roles within the company with most Neck Soil and Water Conservation District and the Richmond projects focusing on thermal cooling and turbine design in County, Virginia Museum (Chair). Mr. Johnson provides military and commercial engine programs. Recently, she’s professional leadership development services to for-profits, helped kick off the development of a GE Affinity Native nonprofits, universities, and other organizations. American Network and has taken on the additional role Dr. Sarah Johnson of being the Recruit/Grow Chair for the Native American Network at GE Aviation. As a developing engineer, she’s Visiting Assistant Professor learned how to perform at a consistent, complex, and Oklahoma State University highly intensive level due to her dedication, skill set, Sarah Johnson, Ph.D., is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the and guidance of her academic advisors and professional School of Community Health Sciences, Counseling and mentors. Cherise has a high interest in combining the Counseling Psychology at Oklahoma State University. Her strengths of her Environmental and Mechanical Engineering research interests include vocational choice, parenting, men degrees, by enhancing advanced technology while being and masculinity, and body image concerns. environmentally conscious. Recently, she developed interests Mr. Torry Johnson in code programming thermal model systems, which will MAIANSE Program Lead aid in understanding performance of overall systems. This NASA engineering interest stems from her background of living NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project between two mines and two power plants adjacent to the for American Indian and Alaska Native STEM Engagement Navajo Nation combined with her passion of preserving (MAIANSE) seeks to serve American Indian and Alaska the natural beauty of the environment and health of her Native (AI/AN) communities in building their capacity in community. She’s also an advocate for encouraging Native science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), American Youth to pursue careers in the STEM field and is particularly by using NASA’s unique experiential learning working to find ways to help them find their voice. In 2008, opportunities to engage with students at Tribal Colleges and she completed a Language Study Abroad program in Rome, Universities (TCUs) and other AI/AN-serving institutions. Italy in a distinguished program created by Dartmouth College. This intense program required strong critical thinking Mr. Joseph Jones skills to master a second language, which is an experience Kaw / Otoe-Missouria she won’t forget. Professional Engineer, Certified Health- care Facility Manager Ms. Carrie Johnson Indian Health Service / U.S. Public Health Service Director of Strategy & Policy and Tribal Affairs Specialist Commander Joseph Jones is a Facility Engineer for the Indian AT&T Services, Inc. - FirstNet Program Health Service in Pawnee, Oklahoma. He makes his home Carrie Johnson is Director of Strategy and Policy and serves as in Pawnee with his wife and four boys. He is a graduate of the Tribal Affairs Specialist for FirstNet Built with AT&T. Before Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma and is a joining AT&T, Carrie served as U.S. Senator Tim Johnson’s (SD) licensed professional engineer and a Certified Healthcare telecom and technology policy adviser in his Washington, Facility Manager. Commander Jones was commissioned DC office, supporting his policy efforts to expand broadband in the United States Public Health Service in 2004, and has access in rural and tribal communities. In 2015, Carrie served the Indian Health Service in Oklahoma and Kansas in returned to her home state of South Dakota and worked as multiple locations and roles. the Manager of Government and External Affairs for SDN Communications, a rural statewide broadband provider Dr. Rahul Kashyap based in Sioux Falls, SD. She started working for FirstNet Research Scientist Built with AT&T in July 2017. Carrie has an M.B.A. from Johns Mayo Clinic Hopkins University, a B.A. from American University, and a Dr. Rahul Kashyap is a physician researcher in Critical Care Certificate in Cybersecurity and Privacy Law from Mitchell Medicine, and he holds academic rank of Assistant Professor Hamline School of Law. of Anesthesiology at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Kashyap has completed post-doctoral research fellowship Mr. Frank Johnson in Emergency Medicine and senior research fellowship in Chief Leadership Officer Critical Care Medicine at Mayo Clinic. He is also serving as an Hope for Family and Business Prosperity, LLC Associate Director, Critical Care Research Fellows, Mayo Clinic. Mr. Frank Johnson is a leadership development professional

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He is also serving as an Associate Editor of the International University’s Eastern Campus. His professional interests include Journal of Medical Students (IJMS) and International Journal socio-cultural aspects of education. In addition, he studies of Emergency Medicine (IJEM), he is also a Reviewer for the role of context in mathematics education. His work with numerous journals. He has extensively published over 150 the Navajo Nation Math Circles that has served as a basis for articles in prestigious peer-reviewed journals with over 1100 his work in México, Guatemala, Panamá, and Nepal. citations. He has also received numerous awards in research Ms. Andrea Klinkman and quality improvement. He regularly presents his work at the National Institutes of Health. He has won a number of SMART Program Liaison awards in Public speaking. He is a recipient of Toastmaster of Department of Defense SMART the Year Award (2016) for Area level. Scholarship-for-Service Program Andrea has been with the SMART Program for five years. As Ms. Kelsey Kawaguchi the SMART Program Liaison, she works closely with SMART Native Hawaiian Program Management to understand the STEM workforce Structural Engineer needs of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), and supports The Boeing Company recruitment of prospective SMART applicants. This includes Kelsey Kawaguchi is Native Hawaiian and grew up on the creating and building relationships, conducting outreach and island of Oahu in Hawaii. She currently works as a Structural promotional activities, participating in awardee facility site Analysis Engineer at The Boeing Company. Kelsey began her visits, and learning the workforce needs of the DoD in STEM career at Boeing as an intern supporting the 737 fleet and positions. Andrea is enthusiastic about sharing the exciting analyzing large composite structure on the 787-10. Prior to opportunities that the SMART Program has to offer. working at Boeing, Kelsey attended the University of Hawaii Dr. Corrie Kuniyoshi at Mānoa (UHM) where she received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. While at UHM, she enjoyed staying active in the Senior Program Manager Kapi`olani Community College STEM Program, the Native American Chemical Society Hawaiian Science and Engineering Mentorship Program, and Corrie Kuniyoshi is a Senior Program Manager in American AISES. Chemical Society Graduate and Postdoctoral Scholars Office. She is program lead for ChemIDP, an Individual Mr. Brendan Kinkade Development Plan career planning tool and workshop for Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma students and postdoctorals in the chemical sciences. She is Director, Strategic Partners, IBM Watson and Cloud editor of the Graduate & Postdoctoral Chemist, a quarterly IBM online magazine, and she has been active in developing Brendan is Director, Strategic Partners for IBM Watson and and delivering other resources and tools for students and Cloud, and leads the global IBM team focused on developing postdoctorals in chemistry and related fields. Corrie is an and establishing high value strategic partnerships with organic chemist who received her B.A. from California State Global technology partners, large, complex ISVs, and San Bernadino and her PhD. from the University of California, Ecosystem partners as a mutually relevant ‘route to market’ Los Angeles. While Corrie was born and raised in California, and growth enabler for IBM’s portfolio of Cloud and Cognitive she currently enjoys living near the New Jersey shore with her technologies and services. Prior to IBM, Brendan spent 18 husband and three kids. years in multiple executive management roles focused on Dr. La Fauve business development, strategic alliances, and sales and Senior Advisor marketing. He has helped lead the introduction of multiple new market segments and technologies, including disk- National Institutes of Health (NIH) based backup, energy efficient storage and Hybrid Cloud. He Charlene E. Le Fauve, Ph.D., is the Senior Advisor to the is a frequent presenter at conferences on the topic of cloud National Institutes of Health (NIH) Chief Officer for Scientific computing and has been recognized as a CRN “Channel Workforce Diversity (COSWD). She received her B.S. from Chief” in 2011 and 2012. Brendan is an AISES Sequoyah Howard University, her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from Fellow, and a proud member of the Choctaw Nation of the University of Georgia, and post-doctoral training in Oklahoma. perinatal addiction treatment at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). At VCU she became an Assistant Professor Dr. Robert Klein in the Department of Human Genetics. In 1998 she joined Professor, Interim Dean the National Institute on Drug Abuse followed by leadership Ohio University positions across NIH, at the U.S. Department of Health and Bob Klein was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Human Services (HHS), the Substance Abuse and Mental He received his PhD in 2003 at the Ohio State University. He Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), and the White teaches mathematics and mathematics education courses at House. In these roles, she focused on public health, research, Ohio University-Athens and is currently Interim Dean of Ohio and strategic partnerships across stakeholders to address

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health and biomedical research challenges among those He is a partner at DSGW Architects and is president of the with the greatest need nationally and globally. Dr. Le Fauve Indigenous-owned firm, First American Design Studio. Mike teaches indoor cycle and group fitness and enjoys spending is a member of the American Indian Council of Architects and time with her family. Engineers and is also a board member and Sequoyah Fellow of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society. Stanford Lake Working with Indigenous nations throughout the U.S., Mike Professional Engineer has designed a wide variety of projects including schools, Terraform Development, LLC community centers, clinics, casinos, multi-family housing, TERRAFORM is a Native Owned, operated and skilled team museums and more. Mike loves to promote architecture as a that is bringing in-depth community involvement and truly vital STEM career for tribal youth and to have Indigenous thorough study to construct projects that will enhance architecture create real change in our Tribal communities. community environment. TERRAFORM development wants to create a sense of community and energy to bring people, Mr. James Leatham environment, and structure in a harmonious atmosphere. Cherokee Nation Engineering Fellow Mr. Curtis Largo Raytheon Navajo Jim has been working in STEM fields for over 30 years as Information Technology Specialist an engineer, and currently works as an Engineering Fellow The Boeing Company developing electro-optical sensors and instruments. He has Curtis Largo is new to the Boeing Information Technology been fortunate to be working in cutting edge research and Career Foundation Program. He was hired by The Boeing development throughout his career, and is currently working Company in May 2015. He is Navajo and is Water’s Edge in the area of remote sensing of the earth from satellites and clan and born for the Towering House clan. He grew up in in developing photonic integrated circuit (PIC) systems. Jim the small community of Prewitt, New Mexico, but his roots graduated from USC with an MSEE and from MIT with an SB also extend into a small community called Cross Canyon in Mechanical Engineering. He is a member of the Cherokee in Arizona. He graduated with a Bachelor’s in Information Tribe. Technology from Navajo Technical University. He has had the opportunity to travel to many places through his involvement Mr. Regal Leftwich with the American Indian Science and Engineering Society Chickasaw (AISES). Curtis is a AISES Sequoyah Fellow. Architect Ms. Meredith LaSalle-Tarantin SmithGroup Regal Leftwich is a collaborative, forward-thinking architect Graduate Program Administrator, De- and laboratory planner with the motivation, proven project partment of Chemistry management skills and technical knowledge to deliver Princeton University exceptional laboratory design services. His 17 years of Meredith LaSalle-Tarantin in the Graduate Program Manager experience for Science and Technology projects includes in the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University. working on over 50 laboratory buildings encompassing more She advises students on the administrative aspects of the than 4.5 million square feet, including wet and dry research graduate program from application through graduation. laboratories, teaching laboratories, animal facilities and all Meredith has a practical and theoretical interest in inclusion necessary spaces, scientific equipment and furniture to practices quantitative measures of diversity-student support these facilities. satisfaction at private universities in the United States. Meredith holds a B.A. in History from the American University Ms. Barbara Lewis of Paris and an M.A. in Political Science from Villanova International Space Station Program Science Office University. She was a 2014-2015 Fulbright U.S. Student Award NASA recipient. Barbara Lewis comes to us from NASA’s International Space Station (ISS) Program where she manages Communications, Mr. Michael Laverdure Outreach and Education activities for the Program Science Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Office. Mrs. Lewis has 20-plus years of experience focused President and Architect on space exploration communications. She began her career First American Design Studio preparing training materials for Mission Control Center Flight Mike Laverdure, Migisi Migwan (Eagle Feather) comes from controllers and Shuttle Simulation trainers. Later, moving to the Makwa Doodem (Bear Clan) and is an Anishinabe (People the Space Station Program reviewing technical reports for From Whence Lowered), an enrolled member of the Turtle the construction of the ISS. In 2000, she took an opportunity Mountain Band of Chippewa located in North Dakota. Mike is to work in broadcast news and returned to the space the first member of his Tribe to become a registered architect. program in January 2004. Since then she has supported

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Communications and Outreach activities for the Shuttle and classes. In July of 2018 she was elected by the Osage Nation now the Space Station Program. Taking an opportunity to Youth Council to serve on the advisory board. In June 2018 dive into Science and Technology in July of 2015, Mrs. Lewis Alaina was selected to serve as an ambassador for the Osage moved from working Business Development and Corporate people as the 2018-2019 Osage Nation Princess. Communications for Barrios Technology to working with the Mr. Anthony Marquez Mission and Program Integration Contract (MAPI) and the ISS Program Science Office. Navajo Senior Security Engineer Ms. Elizabeth Lyons Electronic Arts Director of Minority Student Recruit- High performing engineer able to leverage a strong technical ment/Admissions Counselor skill set, an impressive work ethic, and an excellent set of Michigan State University communication skills to consistently produce outstanding Elizabeth (Liz) Lyons, M.A., is the Director of Minority results. Always looking opportunities that will continuously Recruitment for the College of Human Medicine at Michigan improve my technical skills, which include software design, State University. She holds a Master of Arts degree in hardware integration, and system engineering, while Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education Administration from leveraging my communication and people skills. Michigan State University and is currently working on her Ms. Lina Martin doctorate degree in Educational Leadership. Liz’s experiences include collaboration with many multicultural recruitment Ho-Chunk and Stockbridge Munsee teams, pre-college programming for Native American and Student Service Coordinator multicultural students, and research in the acculturation Native American Center for Health Professions- of Arab American youth. Her work centers on assisting University of Wisconsin- Madison students who, for diverse reasons, have not had sufficient Lina Martin is the student support coordinator for the opportunities to prepare for the challenges of higher Native American Center for Health Professions. She grew education. She spends her free time with her husband and up in Madison,Wisconsin. She is an enrolled member of two kids going to powwows and traveling the Great Lakes. the Ho-Chunk Nation and is also Stockbridge-Munsee. She graduated from the University of Wisconsin Madison with Ms. Thura Mack a degree in women’s studies, history and a certificate in Coordinator, Community Learning Ser- American Indian studies. vices & Diversity Programs University of Tennessee Dr. Gale Mason-Chagil Thura R. Mack is Professor and Coordinator for Community President Learning Services and Diversity Programs at the University of Cultural Inquiry Consultants, LLC Tennessee Knoxville Libraries. Professor Mack has authored Gale Mason-Chagil, PhD., is the President of Cultural Inquiry many articles, including biographical essays, reviews, and Consulting, LLC. She has conducted culturally-competent scholarly articles. She chairs the University of Tennessee educational and career development research with Native Libraries Diversity Committee where her leadership has American individuals and communities for almost 20 years. enabled the creation of civic engagement and social justice She specializes in social change and social justice research, programs that provide opportunities for global leadership. In and in consulting on and evaluating projects administered by addition to her community and diversity efforts, she leads a schools, community-based organizations, and foundations. committee that has organized a STEM conference for middle Recent work includes high school completion, college and high school students for the last eight years. transitions, and pathways to STEM and engineering for Native American students. Ms. Alaina Maker Osage Mr. Duane Matt Osage Nation Princess and Language Teacher Confederated Salish Kootenai and Pend D ‘Oreille Osage Nation Geologist Alaina Maker’s Osage name is Honpe Doka (Wet Mocassins). Division of Energy and Mineral Development Alaina comes from the Deer Clan and the Zonzoli District of Duane Matt is a member of the Confederated Salish Kootenai the Osage Nation. She also comes from the Kitkehaki Band of and Pend D ‘Oreille tribes located on the Flathead Indian the Pawnee Nation. The daughter of Anita Maker and the late reservation located in western Montana. Mr. Matt currently Leonard Maker, she was raised in Hominy, OK, and graduated works as a Geologist with the Division of Energy and Mineral from Pawhuska High School in 2012. Alaina currently serves Development (DEMD) in Lakewood, CO. DEMD is part of the the Osage community as an Osage Language teacher. She Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development (IEED.) teaches Osage to the Kindergarten-2nd grade at the Osage He previously worked as both a Reclamation Specialist and Nation Immersion school, as well as beginner community Technology Coordinator with the Office of Surface Mining

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Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) in Denver, CO. Mr. Jack Meyer Before working for DEMD, Duane worked for the Bureau of SMART Army Liaison Land Management (Initial Attack Fire Dispatcher), Scientific Department of Defense SMART Applications International Corporation (Field Geologist), Scholarship-for-Service Program Bureau of Reclamation (Geological Intern), Confederated Jack Meyer has been with the SMART Program for two years. Salish and Kootenai Tribes (Minerals department) and As the Army Service Liaison, he works closely with Army National Park Service (Helitack/Firefighter). Duane also facilities to understand their STEM workforce needs and worked as a schoolteacher on the Laguna-Acoma reservation supports recruitment and recruitment of prospective SMART in New Mexico. He holds a Master’s Degree in Geology and applicants. This includes creating and building relationships, a Bachelor’s Degree in both Geology and English/Secondary conducting outreach and promotional activities, participating Education. in awardee facility site visits, and learning the workforce Mrs. Michelle McCartney needs of each facility. There is a SMART Service Liaison for Edison Program Manager each Service who serves as the subject matter expert for GE Aviation all questions pertaining to the SMART Program and their Michelle McCartney leads the Edison Engineering respective Department of Defense SMART facilities. Jack is Development Program at GE Aviation. She has been with enthusiastic about sharing the exciting opportunities that the GE Aviation since 2004 and received both her bachelor and SMART Program has to offer. masters degrees from Xavier University. Michelle is passionate Dr. Sharon Migram about mentoring and coaching young engineers and won Director Office of Intramural Training & Education the 2017 Engineering Excellence Award for Leadership and National Institutes of Health (NIH) Cultural Transformation for balancing the equation in the Dr. Sharon Milgram received a BS degree in Physical Therapy Edison Program at GE Aviation. She lives in Cincinnati, Ohio from Temple University and a Ph.D. in Cell Biology from with her family and dogs. Emory University. She completed postdoctoral training at Mrs. Cheryl McClellan The Johns Hopkins University before joining the faculty at Sac and Fox The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. There, she Supply Chain Specialist rose to the rank of Full Professor in the Department of Cell & Developmental Biology. Dr. Milgram served as the Associate The Boeing Company Director of the Medical Scientist Training Program, Director “NeTha-Ki-Wa. Nateshitho Wa-ko-se. Nemahkwitho. I am of the Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences Graduate Sauk. My name is ‘Suddenly Appearing.’ I am Bear clan.” To Program, and the Director of the Summer Undergraduate meet Cheryl McClellan is to come face to face with a woman Research Experience. In 2007 she joined the NIH Office of the of profound personal and cultural integrity. Today, as a Boeing Director as the Director of the Office of Intramural Training engineer and supplier quality specialist, Cheryl recalls her and Education (OITE) where she directs a trans-NIH Office early college days, “I was required to take a foreign language. dedicated to the career advancement of over 5000 trainees. Being a Sac and Fox tribal member, I refused to learn a Dr. Milgram lectures widely on science careers, mentorship, ‘foreign’ language if I could not learn my own Sauk language. leadership, and management. She lives in Maryland with her It was suggested that I enroll in a course of study that did not wife and son. require a foreign language—so I walked across the campus and enrolled in Engineering.” Cheryl was the first in her family Mrs. Patti Mitchell to graduate with a bachelor’s degree. Aware of how fortunate Cherokee Nation she was, she mentors K-12 and college students in science, Leadership Coach, Consultant technology, engineering, art, and math. She emphasizes the Navigation-Point ‘Art’ in STEAM because, as she says, “Native culture requires Patti Mitchell has a combined 35 years of successful creativity, interpretation, and technical skill” in performing Entrepreneurship while also achieving a professional career dance, learning undocumented language, and creating in Program Management, Public Relations, Marketing, painting, sculpture and photography. Training & Technical Assistance, and Business Relations from Mr. David McKinnie places like the Cherokee Nation, the Native Learning Center, Engagement Lead Appalachian State University, The University of Oklahoma NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research Health Sciences Center, North Carolina Department of David McKinnie is the Engagement Lead and serves on the Vocational Rehabilitation, and Executive Leadership in Ocean Exploration Advisory Board for NOAA’s Office of Ocean Tourism and Commerce. Patti has spent the majority of that Exploration and Research. time working in Indian Country from coast to coast inspiring others to follow their dreams.

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Ms. Caroline Montgomery student professional development program as well as MAIANSE Communications Lead develops and implements other workforce development NASA and leadership programs. Sandra has also worked in the NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project LANL Diversity Office as a Program Specialist and Senior for American Indian and Alaska Native STEM Engagement Institutional Diversity Staffing Recruiter and managed the (MAIANSE) seeks to serve American Indian/Alaska Native LANL Institutional Recruiting and Advertising programs for (AI/AN) communities in building their capacity in science, seven years. Prior to LANL, she worked for IBM. technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), Ms. Susanna Packauskas-Lewalski particularly by using NASA’s unique experiential learning Systems Engineer opportunities to engage with students at Tribal Colleges and Raytheon Universities (TCUs) and other AI/AN-serving institutions. Susanna Packauskas-Lewalski is a graduate of the Georgia Mrs. Bonnie Murray Institute of Technology where she received her Bachelor Partnership Lead of Industrial Engineering. Susanna began her engineering NASA career making automobile bumpers. She moved on to work NASA’s MAIANSE program seeks to serve American Indian with caskets, signs, and truck bed liners before settling with and Alaska Native (AI/AN) communities in building her current employer of more than 20 years, Raytheon. She their capacity in science, technology, engineering, and is currently a Senior Systems Engineer and participates in mathematics (STEM), particularly by using NASA’s unique recruiting for Raytheon at the University of South Florida as experiential learning opportunities to engage with students well as various Diversity Conferences. Susanna is the Global at Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) and other AI/AN- Vice President of the Raytheon America Indian Network serving institutions. (RAIN). Although non-native herself, Susanna is interested in Native America culture and issues as her husband and Dr. Patricia Nez Henderson children are members of the Wyandotte Nation of Oklahoma. Dine In her spare time, Susanna is passionate about STEM outreach Vice President and serves as an Outreach Coordinator for various Raytheon Black Hills Center for American Indian Health and community organizations. She is also active with FIRST Dr. Patricia Nez Henderson (Dine’) is Vice President for FTC robotics serving as the State volunteer coordinator. the Black Hills Center for American Indian Health. Dr. Nez Henderson is one of the leading authorities on tobacco Ms. Karen Parker control in American Indian communities. For 18 years Director, Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office she has collaborated with Tribes and tribal communities National Institutes of Health (NIH) in implementing comprehensive tobacco control and Karen L. Parker, Ph.D., M.S.W. currently serves as Director of prevention programs. Dr. Nez Henderson’s work has led the Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office (SGMRO) at the to the Navajo Nation passing commercial tobacco-free National Institutes of Health (NIH). The office coordinates NIH policies for government workplaces and ceremonial settings, research related to the health of sexual and gender minorities and increasing excise taxes on tobacco products. Dr. Nez across the NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices. She also serves Henderson has developed, implemented and evaluated as co-chair of the trans-NIH Sexual and Gender Minority numerous American Indian culturally relevant tobacco- Research Coordinating Committee (RCC); and served on the related research projects, and is a panel member of the committee since 2011. Dr. Parker comes to the SGMRO after 2008 update of the Public Health Service Clinical Practice 14 years at the National Cancer Institute where she served as Guideline “Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence,” Federal Acting Branch Chief in the NCI Office of Science Planning and Drug Administration Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Assessment. Previously, she was the Special Assistant to the Committee, and the Human and Health Services Interagency President’s Cancer Panel. Dr. Parker received her BA in English Committee on Smoking and Health. She and her husband, Dr. from Indiana University and her MSW from the University Jeffrey Henderson, have two beautiful children, Zahlanii and of Michigan, where she studied community organization, Mato. social policy, and evaluation. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Maryland, School of Social Work. Ms. Sandra One Feather Oglala Lakota Dr. Lynn Paxson Program Specialist Professor Los Alamos National Laboratory Iowa State University, College of Design, Sandra is an HR Talent Management Program Specialist at Department of Architecture Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). She manages the Lynn Paxson holds degrees in both design and social science Lab’s iLEAD (i-Leadership, Education and Development) and is interested in students understanding architecture as a technical and cultural phenomenon. She is a member of the

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American Indian Council of Architects and Engineers (AICAE), Mr. Brandon Polingyumptewa and has been recognized for her work in diversifying the Hopi architecture curriculum through the incorporation of native Procurement Agent-Supplier Management cultures and issues. Dr. Paxson also has a visiting appointment The Boeing Company with the School of Architecture + Planning at the University Brandon entered the aerospace field at a time when very of New Mexico where she is developing a national exhibition few natives were represented in STEM-based careers and he of Contemporary Indigenous Architecture. served to lead his younger family members as an example of Mr. Christopher Payne following dreams and attaining them. Brandon’s 20-plus year Cherokee Nation career in aerospace began at 18 when he started working Director, Airplane Systems on the Tomahawk missile program for a wholly-owned and operated American Indian company. Since then he has The Boeing Company been employed at the Boeing Company where he has held From spending time on his Cherokee grandfather’s farm multiple responsibilities and had exquisite opportunities as a child to becoming a senior executive at The Boeing and experiences working on tactical Air Fighter programs, Company, Christopher Payne personifies what it means to Vertical Lift programs, and Missile and Space Systems. work towards a goal. While he is responsible for long-term Throughout his career, Brandon has been sought after for his business goals, he has also achieved remarkable success in positive influence, technical expertise, and abstract thinking his own long-range goals. He started out at Boeing in 1991 to develop and implement manageable solutions to solve as a non-degreed technical designer, and became a lead complex problems. Brandon is a firm believer in community technical designer before obtaining his engineering degree. connectedness and volunteers most of his free time to both While pursuing his engineering degree, Christopher mapped learning from and passing his knowledge of technology and out a 12-year plan, working full-time at Boeing and going life experiences to the next generation of all nations and to school part-time at Seattle University. He finished in nine ethnicities. “Knowledge only becomes wisdom when that years while working full-time throughout most of that period. knowledge is shared, otherwise, that knowledge remains He received a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical an idle thought.” Brandon has strong ties in the Native engineering from Seattle University, and has continued Community. He hosts career fairs for the Salt River Pima his education since, with courses at Seattle University and Maricopa Indian Community, Mesa Public Schools Native Columbia University. Christopher attributes his drive to his American Education Program, Morning Star Leaders Youth Native American heritage and the lessons he learned in Council, and Junior ACE Program of Scottsdale Community boyhood while living on his grandfather’s farm. He also cites College. He is the President of the Boeing American Indian a book about the great Apache warrior, Geronimo: Leadership Society, a Sequoyah Fellow, and is a past speaker at a number Strategies of an American Warrior, for its resonance with of AISES National Conferences and Leadership Summits. him regarding the determination of the Native American community throughout its formative history. Dr. Clifton Poodry Ms. Renee Peterson Seneca Informaton Security Manager Senior Science Education Fellow 3M Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Renee Peterson is a 3M Information Security Manager. At 3M, Prior to joining HHMI, Dr. Poodry was the Director of the she manages Security Awareness and IT Continuity globally Training, Workforce Development and Diversity Division at and ISO 27001 Certification for North America. Renee grew the National Institute for General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), up in St. Paul, MN, and holds a master’s degree in Software NIH. He also previously served as a Professor of Biology at Systems and undergraduate degree in Business Management. the University of California, Santa Cruz. Additionally, he was a Program Director for Developmental Biology at the National Dr. Ken Poff Science Foundation where he developed the minority Professor Emeritus supplement initiative that was copied widely at NSF and later Michigan State University at NIH. At NIH he developed the Institutional Research and Ken Poff, PhD. is Professor Emeritus of Michigan State Academic Career Development Award in which postdocs, University Department of Horticulture, where he has also as part of mentored training, teach at minority serving run a plant research program for undergraduate minority institutions. Dr. Poodry is a native of Tonawanda Seneca students and wrote a book on how to navigate and succeed Indian Reservation in Western New York. He earned both a in graduate school. He has been a Sequoyah Fellow for BA and an MA in Biology at the State University of New York 20 years and is a regular attendee at the AISES National at Buffalo, and received a PhD in Biology from Case Western Conference. In retirement, Ken continues to be active in Reserve University. managing and working his farm and raising honeybees.

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Mr. Marcellus Proctor Computer Science. Sam recently completely a successful Piscataway-Conoy Internship with an Independent Test Lab based in Las Vegas Assistant Division Chief Nevada, that provide certification of casino electronic gaming NASA Goodard Space Flight Center devices, platforms and ancillary components deployed to Mr. Marcellus Proctor is the Assistant Division Chief of the Regulated Casino Gaming markets around the globe. Electrical Engineering Division at NASA Goddard Space Flight Mr. Layne Rainey Center (NASA/GSFC). Mr. Proctor is an enrolled member of District Partnerships Manager the Piscataway-Conoy Nation, which is located in Southern Sphero EDU Maryland (20 miles South of Washington, DC). As the Layne Rainey has worked in STEM Education for the last 11 Assistant Division Chief, Mr. Proctor assists in the leadership years for Companies like PITSCO Education, LEGO Education, of an organization of engineers, technicians, managers, and and now Sphero EDU. Layne helps schools and school support staff engaged in the design, analysis, development, districts implement STEM platforms that allow students to integration, and launch of electrical and electronics engage all modes of learning in the classroom, working with systems. Marcellus was the Chair of the NASA/GSFC Native both District level administrators and classroom teachers American Advisory Committee (NAAC) from 2007 to 2011, to customize programs that will work best for the unique and is current Co-Chair of the American Indian Science situations they face in the classroom. and Engineering Society’s(AISES) Government Relations Council (GRC). He is a Lifetime member of the Society of Dr. Jerry Roberson American Indian Government Employees (SAIGE), AISES, and Cherokee Nation the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE). Mr. Proctor Professor Food Animal Medicine and Surgery received his B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Lincoln-Memorial University University of Maryland College Park and his M.S. in Electrical Jerry Roberson is a graduate of Oklahoma State University Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. with a degree in Animal Science (1982). He is a 1986 graduate Dr. Roger Pulwarty of Veterinary Medicine, also from Oklahoma State. He received a PhD. in Veterinary Science from Washington State Senior Scientist, NOAA Physical Sciences Division University in 1993. Became Associate Professor at Virginia NOAA/Oceanic & Atmospheric Research Tech College of Veterinary Medicine in 2000. Became a full Roger Pulwarty is a NOAA Senior Scientist. His publications Professor in Food Animal Medicine and Surgery at Lincoln- focus on climate and risk management in the U.S., Latin Memorial University College of Veterinary Medicine in 2015. America and the Caribbean. Roger is a lead author on November 2011, was award AISES Professional of the Year. the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, the Also in 2011, received the Pfizer Veterinary Teacher Award. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Co-advisor of the Native American Student Association at Reports on Water Resources and on Extremes, and a Kansas State University (2001-2004) Co-advisor and founder convening lead author on the IPCC Working Group II Impacts, of the Native Ameirican Student Association at the University Adaptation and Vulnerability. He is a recipient of NOAA and of Tennessee where, in 2011, the club was received the DOC Gold and Silver Medal awards. Charles R. Burchett Extraordinary Campus Leadership and Dr. Robert Rabin Service award. Research Meteorologist Ms. Laurie Roberson NOAA/National Severe Storms Lab Director of Clinical Rotations and Outreach Dr. Rabin is a research meteorologist with NOAA. His research Lincoln Memorial University-College interests include satellite observations in weather forecasting of Veterinary Medicine and effects of land use on climate. He has served as science Laurie Roberson is the Director of Clinical Rotations and judge at AIHEC and AISES conferences, an instructor at Outreach at Lincoln Memorial University-College of Veterinary Iḷisaġvik College, the BIA Water Resources Training Program, Medicine. Ms. Roberson’s experience in higher education and the Native Youth Community Adaptation Leadership is with undergraduate, graduate and professional students Congress. Bob has been engaged in learning the Iñupiaq majoring in agriculture, engineering, architecture, and language and is enrolled in the Iñupiaq Studies Program at veterinary medicine. Her work in student and academic Iḷisaġvik College, Barrow AK. affairs includes academic advising and student leadership Mr. Samuel Ragle programs. Ms. Roberson has taught First Years Studies to Student attending the University of Oklahoma incoming college freshmen on three college campuses, AISES Member/BMM Testlabs Internship 2018 served as administrator of an architecture summer design Ragle is a member if the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and camp for high school students, and has been a co-advisor for is currently in his Senior at Oklahoma University studying the Native American Student Association at two universities.

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Mr. Octavio Rodriguez Mr. Anthony Sanders Project Engineer Associate Division Chief 3M NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Octavio Rodriguez is a Project Engineer in the Health Care Anthony Sanders is the Associate Chief of the Instrument Business Group for 3M in St. Paul, MN. Octavio grew up in Systems and Technology Division within the Applied Fort Gibson, Oklahoma and graduated from the University of Engineering and Technology Directorate at NASA Goddard Oklahoma with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. Space Flight Center. He is responsible for administering Division-wide programs and serves as an expert consultant Ms. Jacquelyn Ross on the most challenging technical problems in fields of Southern Pomo/Coast Miwok optics, cryogenics and fluids, detector systems, lasers and Assistant Director, Undergraduate Admissions electro-optics, microwave instrument technology and University of California, Davis instrument systems. Previously, he served as the Associate Jacquelyn Ross works in university outreach and admissions. Chief of the Quality and Reliability Division where he She helps to prepare students for college and also develops provided senior management leadership of reliability and risk teaching modules for introductory STEM activities. In her assessment, mission software and ground system assurance, community, she is a cultural practitioner, primarily in the area and quality engineering branches. Mr. Sanders has a BS of food gathering and fishing. She is also a writer, artist, and degree in Electrical and Nuclear Engineering from University jewelry maker. of Maryland. He is a member of IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Mr. Lans Rothfusz Sciences Society (NPSS), American Institute of Aeronautics Deputy Director and Astronautics (AIAA), the University of Maryland Alumni NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory Association, and Lifetime Member of the National Society of Lans P. Rothfusz is Deputy Director of NOAA’s National Black Engineers (NSBE). Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma. His work, Ms. Georgia Sandoval in that capacity, is focused on developing and delivering Navajo next-generation hazardous weather information concepts Software Engineer for National Weather Service operations. He earned his Intel Corporation Bachelor of Science degree in meteorology from the Georgia Sandoval works for Intel Corporation in Santa Clara, University of Wisconsin-Madison and his Master of Science California under the CORAL contract with Argonne National degree in meteorology from the University of Oklahoma. Labs and the Department of Energy, with a specific focus on With the National Weather Service (NWS), Mr. Rothfusz high performance computing (HPC) systems performance served in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Fort Worth, Texas; and and optimization. Her daily work environment entails fabric as the Meteorologist in Charge of the NWS offices in Tulsa, topology modeling, application performance analysis Oklahoma and Peachtree City, Georgia for a combined 16 (scientific, big data, machine learning), and path-finding years. The offices Mr. Rothfusz has supervised have been Intel’s future in HPC. This is her third role at Intel in two years, recognized often for their operational achievements and he thanks to her organization’s encouragement to roam and has received personal honors for co-developing “StormReady,” move between teams in order to satisfy her career goals. She a severe weather preparedness program for communities, previously interned at the Boeing Company and Raytheon and for his leadership of a multinational team providing where she conducted software testing. Georgia stays actively weather support to the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, involved with her Diné culture, as it helps to ground herself in Georgia. her identity. In addition, Georgia enjoys spending time with Mr. Michael Running Wolf her family, binge-watching Game of Thrones, drinking quiet Northern Cheyenne / Lakota cups of tea in the morning, and yoga. Software Development Engineer Dr. Alan Savitzky Amazon Alexa Professor of Biology Michael Running Wolf grew up in a small village on the Utah State University Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation in Montana. He grew Dr. Savitzky has been active in organizations serving Native up with intermittent water, unreliable electricity, and his American and Latinx students in the sciences, including AISES village received telephone service when he was a teenager. and the Society for the Advancement of Hispanics/Chicanos As a result of his upbringing, hunting deer and fishing, he and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). In collaboration pursued and received a Master of Science in Computer with faculty at the Utah State University Eastern – Blanding Science and is now an engineer at Amazon. campus, Dr. Savitzky initiated the Native American Summer Mentorship Program (NASMP) and has overseen the program on the Logan Campus since its inception five years ago. Dr. Savitzky received the Utah State University Diversity 2018 AISES National Conference Program 2018 AISES National Conference Program 75 PRESENTERS

Award in 2017 For his work with the NASMP, SACNAS, and Dr. Kristn Searle support of gender equity. Previously, Dr. Savitzky served as a Assistant Professor of Instructional Tech- Program Director in the Division of Biological Infrastructure nology and Learning Sciences at the National Science Foundation. Most of his effort Utah State University was directed toward programs that supported mentored Kristin A. Searle studies how students’ gendered and cultural undergraduate research, such as the Research Experiences for identities impact their engagement with computing. Her Undergraduates (REU) program. work focuses on how participating in making activities (like Ms. Daniella Scalice electronic textiles) can broaden students’ sense of what Education and Communications Lead computing is and who can do it, with a particular focus NASA Astrobiology Program on the development of culturally responsive computing Daniella Scalice is the Education and Communications Lead pedagogies. Her work has appeared in a number of journals for the NASA Astrobiology Program. Ms. Scalice holds a including Harvard Educational Review, the International Bachelor of Science in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Journal of Gaming and Computer-Mediated Simulations Biology from UC Santa Cruz, and worked for several years in Games and Culture,and the International Journal of Learning the Department of Cell Biology at Harvard Medical School and Media. She was recently honored with the John Henry doing basic research on nervous system development. Award from the International Computing Education Research After pursuing an MA in film production at Humboldt State Association for her innovations in computing pedagogy with University, she began working for the NASA Astrobiology American Indian youth. Institute (NAI) as a video and multimedia web producer. She Ms. Amanda Sharp went on to serve as NAI’s E/PO Lead for the past 15 years, Mohave and now serves as the E&C Lead for all aspects of the NASA HPC Performance Validation Engineer Astrobiology Program. Intel Corporation Dr. Holly Schaeffer Amanda Sharp has over 15 years of experience helping Adjunct Professor talented scientists and programmers optimize scientific codes LCC to run as fast as possible on supercomputers. She currently Dr. Schaeffer is a certified secondary teacher with experience works as a performance engineer on validation for Exascale teaching middle school, high school and college biology to class systems. Amanda is Mohave who grew up on a small diverse students for over 20 years. Her PhD. is in molecular Indian reservation in the middle of the Arizona desert. genetics from Michigan State University and she earned her Dr. Tatiana Shubin B.S. in biochemistry at the University of Maine. She lives on a Professor working farm raising specialty crops and honeybees. San Jose State University Dr. Joerg Schlatterer Tatiana Shubin joined the faculty of San Jose State University Manager in 1985 after earning her PhD. in Mathematics from UC American Chemical Society Santa Barbara. She is a leader of the National Math Circles Joerg Schlatterer leads the American Chemical Society movement. In 2006, she won an Award for Distinguished Graduate and Postdoctoral Scholars Office. Dr. Schlatterer College or University Teaching of Mathematics and in studied chemistry in Berlin and received his PhD. in 2017 she received the Mary P. Dolciani Award which Heidelberg (Germany) in 2004. He worked as a postdoctoral recognizes a pure or applied mathematician who is making fellow at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in a distinguished contribution to the mathematical education Florida before moving on to become a research associate and of K-16 students in the United States or Canada. Dr. Shubin is subsequently a faculty member in biochemistry at the Albert a co-founder of the Navajo Nation Math Circles project and Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Dr. Schlatterer a co-founder and co-director of the Alliance of Indigenous has published more than 16 peer-reviewed articles and filed Math Circles. 4 patents and patent applications. At Einstein Dr. Schlatterer Mr. Kaben Smallwood also co-created and directed the Career and Professional Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Development Program for Graduate Students & Postdoctoral President and CEO Researchers. Dr. Schlatterer worked as Assistant Dean of Symbiotic Aquaponic, LLC Faculty Professional Development at Columbia University Kaben’s passion for aquaponics is connected to growing-up Medical Center before joining the NSF in summer 2014 as around his grandparents’ farm in Southeast Oklahoma. He has a National Science Foundation Program Director for the helped prepare the land, plant seeds, maintain the crops, and Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Joerg joined ACS to harvest the family farm for over two decades. Working with lead the Graduate and Postdoctoral Scholars Office in March his family, Kaben continues to help with farm operations. 2017.

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As a trained economist, he appreciates that aquaponic assistant professor at Utah State University in the Department agriculture has higher yields, less waste, and requires less of Psychology and Director of the American Indian Support labor. It also an important to him that aquaponics is natural Project. Dr. Tehee’s clinical and research interests are in and conserves water. Kaben has a degree in Economics from addressing trauma across the lifespan. Her research has the University of Oklahoma and a Juris Doctorate and Masters focused on bias/prejudice/racism, health disparities, and of Business Administration from Oklahoma City University. domestic violence and other trauma experienced by ethnic He is a member of the Oklahoma Bar and adjunct at Eastern and racial minorities, especially American Indians. She Oklahoma State College. Kaben resides in Talihina, Oklahoma. earned dual degrees in Clinical Psychology, Policy, and Law In addition to his passion for aquaponics, he enjoys being (PhD./J.D.) with a certificate in Indigenous Peoples Law and outdoors, playing and watching sports, and spending time Policy at the University of Arizona. Dr. Tehee has a Master of with friends and family. Science in Psychology from Western Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University Dr. Jim Smay of Nebraska. Her interdisciplinary training allows her to Cherokee consider the convergence of these topics with law and policy. Professor Her other interests include multicultural competence and Oklahoma State University mentoring ethnic minority students in higher education. Jim Smay, PhD. is a native Oklahoman, and member of the Cherokee Nation with his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Ms. Jennifer Terry a PhD. in Materials Science. Jim is a professor of Materials Associate Vice President-Staffing Science and Engineering at Ok;ahoma State University -Tulsa. AT&T Dr. Smay is an AISES Sequoyah Fellow and was an AISES Jennifer Terry leads talent attraction, employment branding, advisor at Oklahoma State University through 2014. Dr. Smay and recruitment marketing and technology strategies for pursues research in 3D printing of ceramic and elastomeric AT&T’s Global Talent Acquisition organization. She has over 19 materials as well as researching sanitation solutions for the years of experience across the Talent Acquisition continuum, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in South Africa and Kenya. and prior to her current role, led several full-cycle recruiting teams. Jennifer has been a featured speaker for Human Ms. Tiffany Smith Capital Institute, Bersin & Associates, Women in Technology Cherokee Nation International, TalentBoard, as well as others. She was most Director recently a featured panelist at The Female Quotient’s Girl’s University of Oklahoma Lounge leadership panel in Miami. Under her leadership, Tiffany Smith is Cherokee. She is an experienced student AT&T has garnered positive recruitment related coverage affairs professional with a demonstrated history of working in from several national outlets including Good Morning the higher education industry and with diversity programs. America, Fox & Friends, and The White House. Jennifer lives Currently she is working on a Doctor of Philosophy focused in Norman, Oklahoma with her family, enjoys all things arts in Student Affairs/Higher Education Administration from the and crafts, competes in esoteric board game marathons, and University of Oklahoma. watches bad reality TV in her spare time. Ms. Annie Sorrell Mr. Bill Thomas Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes Native Hawaiian Graduate Student NOAA Senior Lead: Islands, Indigenous State University of New York - College of Issues, Office for Coastal Management Environmental Science and Forestry NOAA/National Ocean Service Annie Sorrell was born and raised on the Flathead Nation in Bill Thomas - NOAA Senior Lead: Islands, Indigenous, and Northwestern Montana, listening to stories and knowledge International Issues, Office for Coastal Management, 25 years from the large family that surrounds her. She is Bitterroot in NOAA; 12 years at University of Hawai‘I; One of NOAA’s Salish on both her parents side of the family. Currently, she’s few Native Hawaiians in a leadership position; Focus on working on her Master of Science in Conservation Biology at community resilience, climate & national security, integration the State University of New York - College of Environmental of indigenous knowledge into planning and decision making; Science and Forestry. She believes that education is Undergraduate degree in Biology (Physics & Astronomy important, but that it’s also important to learn from the minor); graduate degree in Zoology (coral reef ecosystems people who came before you. and populations genetics) Melissa Tehee, J.D., Ph.D. Cherokee Nation Mr. Doug Thompson Assistant Professor Technical Strategist Utah State University Microsoft Dr. Melissa Tehee is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation. She is an Doug Thompson is a Digital Disrupter and Transformation

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Strategist at the Microsoft Corporation. In his 17 years Division/Advanced Radar Techniques team and is also the he has presented his technology vision in over a dozen CIMMS assistant director. He uses his engineering skills to countries and has a U.S. Patent pending. He is a two-time develop techniques that improve radar data quality for Ironman Triathlon finisher who is training for his first stand- National Weather Service (NWS) forecasters. He also helps to alone marathon. He is an epic storyteller and loves helping design and evaluate the weather radars of the future. students share their story effectively so that they are easily Dr. Jane Tucker remembered and stand out from the crowd, especially in an interview setting. President J Tucker Associates Ms. MRutheyi Thompson Jane Tucker has over 25 years of experience in higher Mescalero Apache education in both the administrative and teaching areas. CESCO, REA, REP She was an administrator at Duke University and taught U.S. Bureau of Reclamation negotiation skills classes in the Fuqua School of Business MRutheyi Thompson, CESCO, REA, REP currently works as at Duke. For the past 20 years, she has been a consultant a Safety Specialist for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Her educator for the Committee on the Advancement of Women previous position was as an environmental engineer for Chemists (COACh), located at the University of Oregon. fourteen years with the Bureau of Reclamation. She is an For over 30 years she taught with the Center for Creative alumna of Brigham Young University. She has designed and Leadership, an internationally recognized leadership research built several universal accessible design recreation features, and development organization where she worked with taught numerous workshops, and was on the team that leaders from both corporations and academic institutions. designed a Gold LEED Certified building. She has several Dr. Tucker received her PhD. in Organizational Development awards for technical presentations and public speaking. She from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is an enjoys nature walks, travel, armored medieval mixed martial alumna of Wellesley College. She has published papers on arts and being the reigning Queen of the Grand Junction learning strategies and organizational change. Her current Renaissance Faire, Colorado. She has two daughters and two research interest is focused on approaches used to negotiate cats, though only the cats still live at home. difficult issues in academia. Mr. William Tiger Dr. Sherri Turner Miccosukee Associate Professor, Director of Clinical Training Plant Manager University of Minnesota - Twin Cities General Motors Sherri L. Turner, PhD., is an Associate Professor in the William (Miccosukee) obtained a BME from General Motors Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling and Institute and MSE from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Student Personnel Psychology, at the University of Minnesota. During his career, he has held various assignments in She has over 20 years of experience conducting research engineering and manufacturing, including working at on those social-cognitive processes, and contextual General Motors Technical Center on machining engine supports and barriers that predict the career development components for the Small Car project which became the and STEM career development of Native American and first Saturn car. Later, Bill worked developing processes and other underrepresented young people. She also examines tooling for flexible machining of high volume powertrain the effectiveness of theories such as Social-Cognitive parts. Before joining the Lockport Operations team as Plant Career Theory, and the Integrative Contextual Model of Manager, his various assignments have included: Livonia Career Development to describe those processes. She Engine as project engineer and assembly superintendent, has disseminated this research via 125 publications and Flint Engine South as Manufacturing Engineering Manager, professional presentations, and has connected her work St Catharine’s Engine as Assistant Plant Manager, and most to the work of other experts in the career, counseling, and recently GM Baltimore Operations as Plant Manager. William counseling psychology fields. was a founder of GM’s Native American Cultural Network, is Dr. Suzanne Van Cooten an AISES Sequoyah Fellow, and has served on many boards Chickasaw Nation and most currently a member of the Board of Directors of the Hydrologist In Charge United Way of Greater Niagara. NOAA/National Weather Service Dr. Sebastian Torres Dr. Suzanne Van Cooten is the Hydrologist In Charge (HIC) Senior Research Scientist of the National Weather Service (NWS) Lower Mississippi Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological River Forecast Center (LMRFC) located in Slidell, Louisiana. Studies, University of Oklahoma; NOAA She earned her B.S. in Meteorology from the University of Dr. Sebastian Torres is a senior research scientist with CIMMS. Oklahoma, an M.S. in Civil and Environmental Engineering He leads the NOAA/NSSL’s Radar Research and Development from the University of New Orleans (UNO)-LSU, and her PhD.

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in Engineering and Applied Sciences also from UNO-LSU. In Ms. Alexandra Wakely recognition of her career achievements and citizenship in the STEM Education Outreach Specialist Chickasaw Nation, she accepted a three year term in 2016 eCYBERMISSION/Army Educational Outreach Program to serve on the American Meteorological Society’s Board on Alexandra Wakely currently serves as the Curriculum Women and Minorities. Dr. Van Cooten is a Life Member of Outreach Specialist for eCYBERMISSION. Her previous the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native positions include Program Coordinator and Program Manager Americans in Science (SACNAS) and an American Indian of the Professional Development Programs at the National Science and Engineering Society (AISES) Sequoyah Fellow. Science Teachers Association (NSTA). Prior to joining NSTA in Dr. Susan VanderKam 2015, she held the positions of 4th Grade Teacher in Prince Associate Director of Undergraduate Stud- William County Schools, and K-5 Science Lab Teacher at Prince William County Schools. Alexandra resides in Arlington, ies, Manager of Diversity Initiatives Virginia. She has served on the staff advisory committee at Princeton University NSTA, the PTSO board, and is active in several other Susan VanderKam has been a lecturer in the Chemistry Department at Princeton University since 2008, where she community and professional organizations. She holds B.A. has taught a variety of courses ranging from a Freshman from Mary Baldwin University, and a M.A. from George Mason Seminar on the History of Chemistry to graduate-level University. inorganic chemistry courses. She is also the Associate Director Mr. Rob Walbrun of Undergraduate Studies and the Manager of Diversity Program Manager Initiatives for the Chemistry Department. Dr. VanderKam The Boeing Company graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Rob Walbrun is currently the Enterprise Engineering Best in 1994 with a B.S. in Applied Science (Polymer Chemistry) Team and Talent Pillar integration leader who is responsible and with a PhD. in Chemistry in 1999 from Princeton for Engineering employee development, Technical Fellowship University. During her career, she has served as a chemical Program Management, and External Technical Affiliations. information specialist as well as a volunteer STEM workshop Rob was previously the Ed Wells Partnership Co-Director and host at local schools and scouting events. Dr. VanderKam the senior leader for multiple BCA Engineering employee has also served as the faculty sponsor for the campus development programs. Rob joined Boeing in 1992 as a SACNAS chapter and undergraduate advisor for the Mathey Drafter working in the Flight Systems Lab working on the 777 Residential College at Princeton University. Systems Integration Lab (SIL). Dr. Wes Venters Dr. Kathryn Weglarz Campus Liaison Postdoctoral Fellow Air Force Civilian Service Utah State University Dr. Wes Venters is the Air Force Civilian Service (AFCS) Dr. Weglarz holds an MS in entomology from the University Talent Acquisition, Campus Liaison helping smart, talented, of Delaware and a PhD. in Biology from Utah State University innovative, and ambitious students and recent graduates (USU). While she was completing her dissertation she discover the exciting job and paid internship opportunities simultaneously helped establish the Native American the AFCS has to offer. These opportunities provide great Summer Mentorship Program at USU. She continues to benefits to both employees and the United States Air Force pursue avenues to increase participation of underrepresented and are catalysts for freedom and a viable national defense. groups in STEM as a postdoctoral fellow at USU. Mrs. Yasmin Virani Ms. Amy Weinstein Event Planner Chief Operating Officer SMART Scholarship-for-Service Program AISES Yasmin Virani is the Event Planner for the SMART (Science, Amy Weinstein is AISES’ Chief Operating Officer and in this Mathematics & Research for Transformation) Program. role, she oversees scholarships and internships. Prior to The SMART Scholarship-for-Service Program is part of a coming to AISES, Ms. Weinstein was the Executive Director concentrated effort to improve the flow of new, highly of the National Scholarship Providers Association where she skilled technical labor into Department of Defense facilities worked with over 450 colleges, universities, nonprofits, and and agencies and to enhance the technical skills of the foundations that give scholarships for higher education. From workforce already in place. SMART offers scholarships to this work, she learned what scholarship providers looked for undergraduate, master’s and doctoral students who have in student’s applications. Amy is passionate about supporting demonstrated ability and special aptitude for excelling in students to achieve their academic goals. Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) fields. Students are also provided opportunities to continue their research in civil service roles following graduation.

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Mr. Chris Welch Mr. Darrell Wilkerson Cherokee Nation Manager, Information Technology Leadership Coach/Consultant Infrastructure and Operations Navigation-Point Chickasaw Nation Industries Chris Welch... spanning over a decade, Chris has dedicated With over 25 years of experience at hiring, leading and his career to Community Development Projects, Training & mentoring in multiple areas of technology, I am here to help Technical Assistance for his own Cherokee Nation where individuals to obtain a career in technology. I am dedicated he coached and qualified over 140 low-income rural Native to help those who are looking to get into technology or American nonprofit organizations, oversaw 60 Native new to an IT leadership role, but don’t know exactly where American community building projects, assisted over 50 to start or what is expected. I have worked for organizations new Native American community-based nonprofits start- like Chickasaw Nation Industries, FedEx, Xerox, Hertz, and the ups, performed over 300 training sessions, and generated United States Air Force. My heart bleeds for those who want grant initiatives and optional funding resources. ​His love for to create a significant life for themselves, but simply need the helping others and inspiring them, to find the drive to be encouragement and coaching to take the necessary steps. what they have always dreamed, is what inspires him to do Mr. Beau Williams what he does each and every day. He is recognized nationally as a sought after Speaker, Trainer, and Coach for Associations, Cherokee Nation Nonprofit, and Organizational conferences and seminars. Manager, SOURCING COE Now he looks to share his exceptional knowledge and talent The Boeing Company to inspire professional success across all Tribal communities. Beau is a Boeing Company Manager in the Information Technology department. He is a very good leader that likes Mr. Stephen West to give back to future generations. Beau thinks STEM is a vital Cherokee Nation part of equipping our youth for the future. Engineering Technical Specialist 4 Dr. Craig Wilson The Boeing Company Stephen West is a Technical Designer with 29 years in Design Director USDA Future Scientists Program Engineering with a BS in Drafting and Design. His professional USDA/ARS and Texas A&M University strengths include 3D design related investigations, Dr. Wilson was born in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland but engineering resolution, and interpretation, problem solving, grew up in England and attended Oxford University. He met change management, and a high level of proficiency in his Texan wife in Iceland and they had their three children in GD&T, Boeing design standards. Director of Communication Botswana, Africa where he was Head of Science in the tribal for BRG “BAIS-SC” promoting diversity and inclusion for all village of Serowe as part of The University of Botswana. He Boeing teammates, and supporting STEM events and the climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), the highest mountain DreamLearners program to the local tribe through BAIS-SC. in Africa with their older daughter, having climbed The Matterhorn (Switzerland), one of the highest mountains in Dr. Dan Wildcat The Alps when in college. He is Director of the USDA Future Yuchi Scientists Program, a nationally recognized STEM outreach Acting Vice-President for Academics program. He has taught at the Cherokee Nations summer Haskell Indian Nations University camp; at the Kickapoo Nation School in Kansas; and at Dan Wildcat, Yuchi, is currently the Acting Vice-President for Sherman Indian High School in Riverside, California. The Academics at Haskell Indian Nations University as well as program has gone international this year as it is being run at the Director of the Haskell Environmental Research Studies the National Agricultural High School in Panama. (HERS) Center and Indigenous and American Indian Studies Dr. David Wilson faculty member. He is an accomplished scholar who writes Director on indigenous knowledge, technology, environment, and education. He is the author and editor of Power and Place: National Institutes of Health Tribal Health Research Office Indian Education In America, with Vine Deloria, Jr.; Destroying Dr. David R. Wilson is the Director of the National Institutes Dogma: Vine Deloria’s Legacy on Intellectual America, with of Health (NIH) Tribal Health Research Office. Established Steve Pavlik and Red Alert: Saving the Planet with Indigenous in 2015, the Tribal Health Research Office is located in the Knowledge, which suggests global climate change issues will Division of Program Coordination, Planning, and Strategic require the exercise of indigenous ingenuity - indigenuity Initiatives in the Office of the Director. The office coordinates - and wisdom if humankind is to reduce the ecological NIH research related to the health of American Indians and damage well underway. Alaska Natives (AI/AN) across the NIH Institutes, Centers, and Offices. The office was created in recognition of the importance of ensuring meaningful input from and

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collaboration with Tribal Nations on NIH programs and Manual for Connecting Chemistry to the Tribal Community - a policies. Dr. Wilson received his PhD. from Arizona State two-semester sequence of laboratory experiments. University in Tempe, Arizona and completed a post-doctoral Ms. Danielle Yancey at the National Institutes on Aging before becoming a senior research scientist at the NIH. Menominee Director Mr. Rick Wilson Native American Center for Health Professions- Director-Diversity & Inclusion University of Wisconsin- Madison AT&T Danielle Yancey serves as NACHP’s director. She was raised Rick is responsible for AT&T’s global corporate diversity on the Menominee Indian reservation in north-central segment strategy – supporting a range of diverse Wisconsin and is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin communities including women, people with disabilities, - Madison. Her studies include bachelor of arts degrees in Native Americans, and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender social welfare and women’s studies, master of science in and queer (LGBTQ) community. His team drives initiatives urban and regional planning, and a graduate certificate in that elevate AT&T’s impact on its diverse communities, sustainability leadership. Yancey has many years’ experience workforce, suppliers and consumers. Rick hails from and serving tribal communities in pre-college programming, started his professional career in Cleveland. Since then, he intergovernmental affairs, and community and economic has continued to elevate into more expansive roles, ranging development. She joins the Native American Center for from both strategic and large scale operational leadership Health Professions(NACHP) from UW Health, where she positions - sales management, ethics/EEO compliance, served as a Career Pathways coordinator supporting health mergers and acquisition integration, recruiting/talent care career exploration for youth and workforce development acquisition, corporate strategy and global HR policy. Rick pathways into health care professions. She looks forward to holds a bachelor’s degree in communications from John bringing her experience and background to the NACHP. Carroll University and a master’s degree in labor relations and human resources from Cleveland State University. Mr. Natanii Yazzie Navajo Dr. Sweeney Windchief Student Assiniboine Miyamura High School Assistant Professor Natanii Yazzie (Navajo) is a Miyamura High School, Gallup, Montana State University New Mexico student. He is a high school senior. Natanii has Sweeney Windchief is a member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine been involved with NNMC and AIMC since 2014, attending Tribe in northeastern Montana and serves as assistant all summer math camps as a student. He is featured in the professor at Montana State University. He earned an Ed.D. PBS documentary, “Navajo Math Circles.” In Summer 2019, he in Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of will work at the AIMC Math Camp at Navajo Prep as a Junior Utah in 2011. His research interests fall under the umbrella Mentor. of indigenous intellectualism to include indigenous methodologies in research, tribal college leadership, and Mr. Sheldwin Yazzie indigenous student persistence in higher education. He Postdoctorate Fellow and his wife Sara have two sons who help keep things in Albuquerque Area Southwest Tribal Epidemiology perspective. Center and University of New Mexico Mr. Sheldwin Yazzie is working as an Epidemiologist with the Ms. Janyce Woodard Albuquerque Area Southwest Tribal Epidemiology Center in Dean of STEM Initiatives Albuquerque, New Mexico. Sheldwin also recently started Little Priest Tribal College his post-doctoral training with the University of New Mexico Ms. Woodard has taught at Little Priest Tribal College for (UNM) IRACDA - Academic Science Education and Research seven years as well as serving as Project Director for several Training Fellowship Program. Sheldwin earned a doctorate STEM-focused grants, and is the Dean of STEM Initiatives. degree in Exposure Science and a MS degree in Epidemiology She has taught chemistry, microbiology, and a variety at the University of Washington School of Public Health; he of Indigenous science courses. She also co-sponsors the has also received a MPH at UNM School of Medicine. His goal Exploring Cultural and Natural Heritage course offered with in public health is to improve the health of all communities the social science instructor, which includes visits to Native with a focus on disparate environmental exposures and American sites of cultural and historical significance. Woodard disease rates among disadvantaged populations, specifically serves as Little Priest’s Framing the Chemistry Curriculum on American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) populations. coordinator, is a co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation Grant, and contributed to the Lab

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82 2018 AISES National Conference Program Honor the Past. Be the Future.Native STEM ENTERPRISES 25 TO WATCH This list is current at the time of printing. s Top 25 l Top 50 Companies 25Native STEM n ENTERPRISES Top 200 Colleges/Universities TO WATCH 6

3M 518 l Columbia University in the City of New York 1321 n A.T. Still University 1217 Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons 1110 AARP 302 Comcast 827 AAVMC 321 Cornell Engineering 918 n AISES 707 Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine 1119 n Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium 1327 Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) 517 Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Sponsor Only Dematic Corp. 402 Amazon 731 Division of Energy and Mineral Development 327 American Chemical Society 508 l DoD SMART 420 American Indian College Fund 421 Emma Bowen Foundation 701 American Indian Council of Architects and Engineers 230 ExxonMobil Exploration Company 831 l American Indian Graduate Center 413 Facebook, Inc. 712 American Indian Program - New Mexico State University 1031 n Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 708 America’s Navy 718 l Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas 410 Anerin Risk 710 l Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 429 Arizona Indians into Medicine 1317 n Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Group 400 Arizona State University 1117 n Flintco, LLC 724 Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP) 531 Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 603 AT&T 809 l GE Aviation 500 l Be An Actuary 417 General Motors 913 l Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope 1112 Geoscience Convergence Zone 830 Binghamton University SUNY 1120 Gila River Indian Community Sponsor Only BNSF Railway 824 l Google 703 Bonneville Power Administration 430 l Harvard Business School 1130 Booz Allen Hamilton 412 Harvard Native American Program 1028 Boston Scientific 612 l Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 1030 Bureau of Indian Affairs 702 l Haskell Environmental Research Studies 1118 Bureau of Land Management 325 Haskell Indian Nations University 900 n Cahilla Band of Indians Sponsor Only Howard Hughes Medical Institute 803 Carollo Engineers, Inc. 627 IBM 810 l Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 602 Idaho National Laboratory 427 Central Intelligence Agency 909 l Illinois Department of Transportation 626 Cherokee Nation Businesses 311 s Indian Health Service - DSFC 901 l Cherokee Nation Human Resources 419 s Indiana University 1231 Chevron Corporation 512 l Intel Corporation 818 l CIRES (Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Intertribal Timber Council 320 Sponsor Only Sciences) Jack Kent Cooke Foundation 502 Citizen Potawatomi Nation 629 Jerome J. Lohr College of Engineering, South Dakota State 1103 n Cleveland Clinic 1226 l University College of Muscogee Nation 1010 Jet Propulsion Laboratory 726 l Colorado Department of Transportation 411 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health 1016 Colorado School of Mines - Graduate School 1101 n Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean 1325

2018 AISES National Conference Program 2018 AISES National Conference Program 83 Honor the Past. Be the Future. Keck Graduate Institute 1211 Procter & Gamble 416 l Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 424 Project Launch 401 LEIDOS 521 Purdue University NAECC 1319 Los Alamos National Laboratory 425 l Raytheon 608 l Massachusetts Institute of Technology 912 n Redlands Community College 313 Mayo Clinic 800 Rochester Institute of Technology 1126 n McGill University 1018 San Diego Gas & Electric 601 Merck 802 l Sandia National Labs 631 l Michigan State University 906 n Sanford Research 431 Michigan Tech - School of Forest Resources and Environmental Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community Sponsor Only 1027 Science SKC TREES 1225 n l Microsoft Corporation 610 Sloan Indigenous Graduate Partnership 920 n MITRE Corporation 519 SNHU College of Engineering, Technology, & Aeronautics 1313 Morehouse College-Summer Internships-Project Imhotep & 1121 Society of American Indian Government Employees (SAIGE) 226 PHLFP Society of Women Engineers 224 NASA 709 l Southeastern Oklahoma State University Native Institute 902 n NASA Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium 1125 Southern California Tribal Chairmen’s Association Sponsor Only National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine 330 Stanford School of Engineering 1011 n National Renewable Energy Laboratory 428 Stevens Institute of Technology 1220 National Science Foundation 501 l Summer Health Professions Education Program 317 National Security Agency 727 l Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation Sponsor Only s Navajo Nation Division of Natural Resources 713 Symbiotic Aquaponic, LLC 301 s Navajo Transitional Energy Company 628 Teach For America Native Alliance 316 l Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) 624 l Texas Department of Transportation 403 Navarro Research and Engineering 329 The Association of American Medical Colleges 319 NC State, Women & Minority Engineering Programs 1106 n The Boeing Company 618 l New Mexico Tech 1104 The Ohio State University’s College of Engineering 1109 n NextEra Energy 925 l The University of Iowa 1212 NIH/Office of Intramural Training & Education 700 The University of Oklahoma 730 n NIST 507 Tribal Alliance of Sovereign Indian Nations Sponsor Only NOAA 927 l Tufts University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and n 1017 NORTHEASTERN STATE UNIVERSITY - TAHLEQUAH, OK 1131 School of Engineering n Northeastern State University - Tahlequah, OK 1129 Tule River Indian Tribe of California Sponsor Only NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY 910 U.S Secret Service 513 Northwestern University 1311 n U.S. Coast Guard Academy 1000 NYU Tandon School of Engineering 1020 l Oak Ridge National Laboratory 426 U.S. Department of Energy 527 l Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement 300 U.S. Department of State 525 Oklahoma State University 524 n U.S. Geological Survey 328 Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences 1216 n UC San Diego 1227 n Oracle Corporation 611 l UCLA 903 n Oregon Health and Science University 1218 UCLA Health 318 OU Dept. of Geography & Environmental Sustainability 926 n United National Indian Tribal Youth, Inc. 228 Pala Band of Mission Indians Sponsor Only United States Air Force 826 l Pauma Band of Luiseño Indians Sponsor Only University at Buffalo, School of Engineering and Applied 908 n Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians Sponsor Only Sciences n Penn State College of Medicine - Graduate Programs in the University of Arizona 1111 1230 Biomedical Sciences University of Arizona 1024 n Princeton University Graduate School 1331 University of Arkansas College of Engineering 1013 n 84 2018 AISES National Conference Program Honor the Past. Be the Future.

University of California, Davis: Graduate and Undergraduate University of Wisconsin Law School 1219 n 916 n Programs University of Wisconsin-Madison Native American Center for 1116 n University of California Berkeley 310 n Health Professions University of California, Merced 1026 US Army Corps of Engineers 528 University of Cincinnati 312 US Army Corps of Engineers 528 University of Colorado Denver | Anschutz Medical Campus 1113 US Army Test & Evaluation Command 529 University of Denver 1228 US Forest Service 326 l University of Idaho 1021 n US INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY 509 University of Illinois at Chicago 1224 USC Viterbi School of Engineering 924 University of Kansas 930 n USDA - NRCS 811 l University of Maryland - Clark School of Engineering 1221 USDA Agricultural Research Service 812 l University of MD Eastern Shore 1128 Vanderbilt University 1127 University of Minnesota 1213 n VGT 600 University of Nebraska Medical Center 1329 Virginia Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine 1124 University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Chemistry Department 1001 Virginia Tech, College of Engineering 1025 University of New Mexico Engineering 1002 n Washington State University 1019 n University of North Dakota School of Medicine INMED 1008 n Wells Fargo Sponsor Only University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center 1003 n Winds of Change/AISES Publishing Inc. 706 University of Oklahoma/CIMMS 928 n Woodrow Wilson Academy of Teaching and Learning 1229 University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering 630 Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies 1029 n University of South Dakota 1210 n Yale University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences 1012 n

AISES Board of Directors Dr. Twyla Baker Amber Finley Dr. John B. Herrington (Three Affiliated Tribes) (Three Affiliated Tribes) (Chickasaw) Chair Secretary Alicia Jacobs Richard Stephens Bill Black (Cherokee) (Pala Band of Mission Indians) Dr. Grace Bulltail Dr. Adrienne Laverdure Vice-Chair (Crow, Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara) (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa) Michael Laverdure Barney “B.J.” Enos Shaun Tsabetsaye (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa) (Zuni Pueblo) Treasurer (Gila River Indian Community) Kristina Halona (Navajo) AISES Student Representatives U.S. Sr. National Representative Region 1: Cody Kapotak Region 5: Sydney Schad Hannah Balderas (Portage Creek Village) (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe) (Santee Sioux, Three Affiliated Tribes) University of Alaska-Anchorage University of South Dakota University of North Dakota Region 2: Desiree Brazeau Region 6: Adrian Riives U.S. Jr. National Representative (Seneca Nation of New York) (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Steven Just School: Loma Linda University Chippewa Indians) (Sisseton-Wahpeton) Region 3: Cydney Walters Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute University of Minnesota-Duluth (Navajo) Region 7: James Murr Canadian National Rep University of Arizona (Lumbee Tribe) Brielle Thorsen Region 4: Katelynn Morgan University of North (Saddle Lake Cree Nation) (Cherokee Nation) Carolina-Pembroke Queen’s University University of Arkansas

2018 AISES National Conference Program 2018 AISES National Conference Program 85 Honor the Past. Be the Future. AISES Circle Partners The following outstanding organizations are recognized for their commitment to supporting the educational and professional development of American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and other Indigenous peoples of North America in the STEM fields. AISES’ Circle Partners diversify their involvement over at least two national events or programs. For more information on how to become a Circle Partner, please contact Kellie Jewett-Fernandez at [email protected]. Full Circle of Support

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United States SAN MANUEL Department of Agriculture AISES Circle Partners RESOURCES Natural Resources Conservation Service Excellence Partners

AISES Council of Cecelia Lucero Council of Elders in Advisory Council Elders (Acoma Pueblo) Memoriam Chairs/Co-Chairs Dr. Bret R. Benally Dr. Henrietta Mann Horace Axtell Academic Advisory Council (AAC) Thompson (Southern Cheyenne) (Nez Perce) Dr. Mary Jo Ondrechen (White Earth Ojibwe) Dr. James May Eddie Box, Sr. (Mohawk) Antoinelle Benally (United Keetowah Band) (Southern Ute) Northeastern University Thompson Faith Spotted Eagle Franklin Kahn Canadian Indigenous (Navajo) (Ihanktonwan Band of the (Navajo) Advisory Council (CIAC) Steve Darden Dakota/Nakota/Lakota Bow Lane Jamie Ricci (Navajo/Cheyenne/Swedish) Nation of South Dakota) (Chickasaw) Matt Dunn Rose Darden Council of Elders Phil Lane, Sr. (Dene, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation) (Ute) Emeriti (Yankton Sioux) Andrea Axtell University of Saskatchewan Norbert Hill, Jr. (Nez Perce) Lee Piper, Ph.D. Corporate Advisory (Oneida) Mary Kahn (Cherokee) Council (CAC) Phil Lane Jr. (Navajo) Laurence Brown (Yankton Dakota/Chickasaw) (Navajo) Sandia National Stan Lucero Laboratories (Laguna Pueblo)

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Chuck Ross Amanda James Tribal Nations Advisory Alicia Ortega (Choctaw) (Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe) Council (TNAC) (Pojoaque Pueblo) Raytheon Bureau of Land Maria Dadgar All Pueblo Council of Government Relations Management (Piscataway Tribe of Accokeek) Governors Council (GRC) Marcellus Proctor Inter Tribal Council of Gary Santos Arizona James Daugomah (Piscataway-Conoy) (Tule River) (Kiowa) National Aeronautics and Mark Harding Tule River Indian Tribe of National Oceanic Space Administration (Mashpee Wampanoag) California and Atmospheric Professional Chapter Next7 Administration Council (PCC) John Lewis Noller Herbert Joe Connolly (Gila River Indian Community) (Navajo) (Haudenosaunee of the Gila River Indian USDA Natural Resources Onondaga Nation) Community Utility Conservation Service National Aeronautics and Authority Space Administration

AISES Staff Sarah EchoHawk Monique Fredericks- Bill McIntyre API/Winds of Change Chief Finance Officer (Pawnee) Douville Karen English Chief Executive Officer (Mandan, Hidatsa and Lisa Paz Lead Editor Arikara Nation) (Pawnee/Comanche) Amy Weinstein Kristen Goodfriend Chief Operating Officer Senior Curriculum Director of Membership Development and and Individual Giving Art Director Ruth Blackhawk Implementation Officer Angelika Silva Amy Norcross Cameron Vicki Gish Accounting and Human Managing Editor (Ho-Chunk and Lakota) AP Accounting/Office Resources Officer Program Officer Consultants Manager Monique Tulley-Bahe Chelsea Chee Thomas Cristiano Shayna Gutierrez (Navajo) Consultant (Navajo) (Oglala Lakota) Administrative Program Officer Tribal and Business Coordinator David Cournoyer Development Manager (Rosebud Sioux) Emerald Craig Cody Vermillion Plain Depth Consulting (Navajo) Brianna Hall (Pawnee) Marketing and Program Manager Information Technology Brian Vermillion Assistant Communications Ruben Hernandez ver5design Officer (Rosebud Sioux) Montoya Whiteman Katherine Cristiano Chief Technology (Cheyenne and Arapaho) Director of Special Officer Director of Marketing Events and Communications Kellie Jewett-Fernandez Kathy DeerInWater (Cheyenne River Sioux) (Cherokee) Director of Business and Director of Special Program Development Projects and Research Candace McDonough Debbie Derryberry National Sales Director Executive Assistant

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