Tribal Energy Economies: Investing in a Sustainable Future

Tribal Energy Economies 1 Conference Faculty

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Tribal Energy Economies: Investing in a Sustainable Future CLE Conference

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Jose Aguto .................................................................................................................................................... 3

��Carl J. Artman ............................................................................................................................................... 3

��Steven C. Begay ........................................................................................................................................... 4

��Allison C. Binney ........................................................................................................................................... 4

�Eileen Briggs ................................................................................................................................................. 4

��Carol M. Browner (Invited) ............................................................................................................................ 5

John L. Clancy .............................................................................................................................................. 5

��Margaret R. Cook.......................................................................................................................................... 6

��Kevin Cornelius ............................................................................................................................................. 6

��Kimberly E. Craven ....................................................................................................................................... 7

��Jeffrey A. Crawford ....................................................................................................................................... 7

��Rep. Christopher Clark Deschene ................................................................................................................ 7

��Dr. Gary W. Dirks .......................................................................................................................................... 8

��Samir Dube ................................................................................................................................................... 9

Larry EchoHawk............................................................................................................................................ 9

Janet L. Erickson......................................................................................................................................... 10

Roger M. Freeman ...................................................................................................................................... 10

Robert (Bob) W Georgeoff .......................................................................................................................... 10

Jennifer K. Giff ............................................................................................................................................ 11

��Chief James Roan Gray.............................................................................................................................. 11


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Tex. G. Hall ................................................................................................................................................. 12

��Todd Hooks................................................................................................................................................. 13

James G. Kenna ......................................................................................................................................... 13

��Donald (Del) Laverdure............................................................................................................................... 14

��Tracey A. LeBeau ....................................................................................................................................... 15

Deanna Leon............................................................................................................................................... 15

Marcus D. Levings ...................................................................................................................................... 16

��Daniel (Dan) N. Lewis ................................................................................................................................. 16

James (Jim) A. Manion ............................................................................................................................... 17

��Patricia (Pat) S. Mariella ............................................................................................................................. 17

D. Michael McBride III ................................................................................................................................. 18

�David A. Mullon Jr. ...................................................................................................................................... 19

Katosha Nakai ............................................................................................................................................. 19

��Simon J. Ortiz.............................................................................................................................................. 19

��Lawrence S. Roberts................................................................................................................................... 20

��Fawn R. Sharp (Invited) .............................................................................................................................. 20

Alan Stephens............................................................................................................................................. 21

Bill Stevens.................................................................................................................................................. 21

��Jonny BearCub Stiffarm .............................................................................................................................. 22

��Dean B. Suagee.......................................................................................................................................... 22

��Victoria (Vickie) Sutton................................................................................................................................ 22

��Pilar Thomas ............................................................................................................................................... 23

��Rebecca Tsosie .......................................................................................................................................... 23

�Thomas L. Whitman .................................................................................................................................... 24

��Rollie E. Wilson ........................................................................................................................................... 24


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��Tribal Energy Economies: Investing in a Sustainable Future CLE Conference

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��CONFERENCE FACULTY

Jose Aguto

Policy Advisor, National Congress of American Indians

Jose Aguto is a Policy Advisor for NCAI, working on behalf of the tribes on the issues of climate change, environment, natural resources, clean energy, agriculture, and international indigenous affairs. Prior to coming NCAI in

September 2009, Mr. Aguto was as a policy advisor on tribal environmental issues for the American Indian Environmental Office in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Mr. Aguto has a B.A. in International Relations from Brown University and a J.D. from Villanova Law School (member of the Maryland Bar).

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��Carl J. Artman

Director, Economic Development in Indian Country Program and Professor of Practice at Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU

Carl J. Artman, an enrolled member of the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin, is a shareholder of Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. He served as the 10th

Assistant Secretary – Indian Affairs for the U.S. Department of the Interior. He also had served as the Department’s Associate Solicitor for Indian Affairs. Artman has legal, policy development, and business experience that include working for Congressman Michael Oxley, the Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin as Director of Federal Affairs and Chief Legal Counsel and, for Airadigm Communications, an Oneida Tribe-owned telecommunications venture, as Chief Operating Officer. He received a B.A. from Columbia College in Missouri, an M.B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a J.D. from the Washington University, and an LL.M. in Natural Resources and Environmental Law from the University of Denver. He is licensed to practice law in Wisconsin, Colorado and Pennsylvania. He heads the College of Law's new Economic Development initiative and teaches the course, Economic Development in Indian Country.


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General Manager, Diné Power Authority

Mr. Steven C. Begay is Navajo and grew up in the Coal Mine Mesa area near Tuba City, Arizona where he attended boarding school. He went to high school in California and in Massachusetts. In 1992, Mr. Begay received his Bachelor

of Science degree in Accountancy from the College of Business at Arizona State University. In 1999, he became the General Manager of the Diné Power Authority (DPA), an enterprise of the Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona. DPA is developing the Navajo Transmission Project (NTP), a 469-mile, 500kV AC line from northwestern New Mexico to southeastern Nevada. In 2002, DPA started the Desert Rock Energy Project (DREP), a modern 1500 MW coal-fired power plant proposed on Navajo land in northwestern New Mexico. These large-scale energy projects are planned for construction in the 2010 to 2016 timeframe. Other utility-scale renewable energy projects are also being planned. Mr. Begay has served as the Executive Director of the Office of Navajo Tax Commission from 1995 to 1999. He served as the Executive Director of the Division of Economic Development in 1990-91, and as the Accounting Manager for the Fort McDowell Gaming Center in 1992. Steve has work experience in the Navajo government in the areas of taxation, business and community development, land administration, governmental budgeting, contracts and grants, and auditing. His current goal is to develop viable and beneficial energy projects for his people through the use of tribal resources to bring jobs, investments, and revenues, as well as an improvement in the quality of life on the Navajo Nation.

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��Allison C. Binney

Staff Director and Chief Counsel for United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs

Allison Binney is the Staff Director and Chief Counsel to the Democrats on the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, serving under the

Committee Chairman Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota. Prior to joining the Committee, Ms. Binney specialized in American Indian law as an Associate at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, and Hobbs Straus Dean & Walker in Washington, D.C. She is a member of the Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians in Northern California, and is a graduate of Arizona State University’s College of Law.

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�Eileen Briggs

Board President - Ta Ta-tè Topa Energy, Inc., a wholly owned corporation of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe

Eileen Briggs is an enrolled member of Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. She serves her tribe as the Executive Director of Cheyenne River Tribal Ventures; a

ten-year initiative implementing a comprehensive poverty reduction plan for the reservation. She has also been appointed by Tribal leadership to serve on the board for Ta-tè Topa (Four Winds) Energy Corporation, Inc. whose work is to develop commercial wind energy on behalf of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe. Ta-tè Topa is moving forward with the development of a 125 megawatt wind farm on tribal land.


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Eileen has a background in community development, education, human services and communications. She holds both a bachelors and masters degree from the University of Minnesota and has earned certification as an Economic Development Finance Professional from the National Development Council. She has held leadership positions in several statewide and regional organizations in Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Dakota; recently Eileen was chosen by the Bush Foundation to participate in the Native Nations Rebuilders Program. Eileen lives with her extended family in the community of Eagle Butte on the Cheyenne River Reservation in South Dakota.

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��Carol M. Browner (Invited)

Assistant to the President on Energy and Climate Change

Carol Browner is an American lawyer, environmentalist, and businesswoman, who is Director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy in the Obama Administration. Browner previously served as

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton Administration.

Browner grew up in Florida and graduated from the University of Florida and the University of Florida College of Law. After working for the Florida House of Representatives, she was employed by Citizen Action in Washington, D.C. She became a legislative assistant for Senators Lawton Chiles and Al Gore. Browner then headed the Florida Department of Environmental Protection from 1991 to 1993.

She was the longest-serving administrator in the history of the EPA, staying through both terms of the Clinton presidency. Following that, she became a founding member of the Albright Group and Albright Capital Management during the 2000s. She also served on a number of boards of directors and committees dealing with environmental issues. She assumed her new post in the Obama administration in January 2009.

John L. Clancy

Shareholder, Godfrey & Kahn, S.C.

John Clancy is a shareholder and member of Godfrey & Kahn’s Environmental and Energy Strategies Team. John works with tribes and other clients on climate change, renewable energy, energy efficiency, and other

sustainable development matters. He served on several work groups for the Governor’s Global Warming Task Force in Wisconsin on behalf of the Forest County Potawatomi Community, and is now working to help implement the renewable energy, energy efficiency, and other policies that were recommended by the Task Force. In 2004, he received the Wisconsin Law Journal Leader in the Law award for his work related to the Potawatomi’s objection to and successful purchase of the proposed Crandon Mine.


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��Margaret R. Cook

Executive Director, Gila River Indian Community, Department of Environmental Quality.

Major in Business Administration, with directed focus on global management

Margaret Cook is the Executive Director of the Gila River Indian Community, Department of Environmental Quality. Prior to becoming Executive Director, she held the position of Senior Environmental Planner and Policy Analyst for the Gila River Indian Community for approximately 8 years and worked as an active member of all the media teams within the Department of Environmental Quality. Executive Director Cook is also a member of the Renewable Energy Team for the Gila River Indian Community.

As the Executive Director of the award winning Department of Environmental Quality, Ms. Cook has been involved in designing methods of reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the Department has been awarded grants to respond to renewable energy, energy efficiency and other initiatives aimed at creating innovative opportunities for the Gila River Indian Community’s response to climate changes. Because of her long-standing work on climate change issues, Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano appointed Margaret the state Climate Change Advisory Committee. Climate change has been an issue of great concern to Margaret since the early 1980's when she was involved in Planet Earth, a climate change initiative operated by the United Nations.

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��Kevin Cornelius

Chief Executive Officer, Oneida Seven Generations Corporation

Major in Business Administration, University of Wisconsin – Green Bay, WI Associates Degree in Accounting, Brigham Young University, UT

• Chief Executive Officer: Oneida Seven Generations Corporation from 2008 – present. • Former Director of Legislative Affairs: Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin from 2000

– 2008 where he worked with State Legislature to pass legislation important to the Tribe. Secured $3 million to use for the Oneida Tribal Small business program from the State budget process.

• Small business: Start-up & co-owner of Same Day Medical Delivery Service, Appleton from 1997-2000

• Director of Economic Development: Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin from 1989 – 1997

• Developed Oneida Seven Generations Corporation; the purpose of the charter was to hold the assets for a partnership with largest hospital in Green Bay to build medical facility and fitness center.

• Developed financial analysis and business plan for State Charter and federally insured bank.

• Part of task force that worked out agreements with Ashwaubenon and Austin Straubel Airport for development of Oneida Casino.


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��Kimberly E. Craven

Senior Project Manager, Tribal Energy Program, State, Local & Tribal Initiatives. National Renewable Energy Laboratory

Ms. Craven has extensive experience in policy; legal issues and funding that promote economic prosperity and social change within Tribal communities and

Native American lands throughout the United States.

She is the Senior Project Manager in the Tribal Energy Program of the State, Local & Tribal Initiatives at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. With over 20 years working in Indian Country at the Tribal, Congressional, state, local and nonprofit levels, she brings a wide array of knowledge, experience and networking to NREL. She was a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs for Senator Daniel J. Evans (R-WA) and a Staff Member for then Congressman Ben Nighthorse Campbell (then D-CO).

She holds a bachelor of Liberal Arts from The Evergreen State College, a Juris Doctor from the University of Colorado’s School of Law and an L.L.M. in Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy from the University of Arizona’s Roger’s College of Law. She is an enrolled member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate.

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��Jeffrey A. Crawford

Attorney General Forest County Potawatomi Community

As Attorney General for the Forest County Potawatomi Community, Jeffrey A. Crawford provides business, regulatory, and compact counsel. Since 1997, he has been responsible for governmental affairs, project development, contracts,

environmental issues, complex negotiations, litigation management, attorney supervision, budgets and compliance. Crawford served on the boards of Governor Doyle’s Global Warming Task Force and is a current member of the Greater Milwaukee Committee. He has been honored with the Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” Award, General Mills Law Department Innovation Award and Service to the Minnesota Minority Lawyers Award. Crawford, a member of the Forest County Potawatomi tribe, is married and has three children.

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��Rep. Christopher Clark Deschene

House of Representatives, Arizona State Legislature

Christopher Clark Deschene was born in Southern California where his parents were relocated during the 1960’s government relocation efforts. Before Chris was 1 year old, his parents relocated to raise their family on the Navajo Indian

Reservation near Page, AZ. Chris obtained an appointment to the U.S. Naval Academy in 1989 and graduated in 1993 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a commission as a 2nd LT. He volunteered to serve with the United State Marine Corps after Annapolis. Before attending the Marine Basic School, Chris worked at the National Laboratory in Livermore, California as a military research engineer.


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Chris commanded and led from the front with the infantry and reconnaissance units during the 1990s. In 1995 and 1997, Chris served with distinction overseas with missions in the Persian Gulf, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. In 1998, Chris now a Captain, served as the Executive Officer for a Reconnaissance Company with more than 160 Marines. After leaving active duty, Chris pursued a graduate education in law and engineering in 2001. In 2003, Chris was promoted to Major, USMCR, ended his career with the Marine Corps Reserves.

Chris earned his law degree from Arizona State University in 2005 where he earned concurrently a Masters of Science Engineering in Mechanical Engineering with an emphasis in renewable and alternative energy development. While in law school, Chris served as a legal associate in the U.S. Senate, and for Washington DC and Phoenix law firms. He was elected as the President of the National Native American Law Student Association during his final year.

After graduate school, Chris co-founded the Law Office of Schaff & Clark Deschene, LLC to practice as a tribal energy attorney for tribes throughout the United States. With his law firm, Chris helps tribal communities develop much needed infrastructure and economies with their natural and energy resources. He now speaks nationally on tribal energy issues and helps shape nationally tribal policies that bring together tribal and non-tribal partners.

Chris became active with the Arizona Democratic Party as the Apache County Democratic Party Chair and the Chair of the Native American Democratic Caucus. Chris ran and was selected to be a pledged delegate for Senator Obama to the Democratic National Convention.

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��Dr. Gary W. Dirks

Director of LightWorks, ASU

Education: Ph.D., Chemistry, Arizona State University

Gary Dirks is the former president of BP Asia-Pacific and BP China. Dr. Dirks has spent his entire career with BP and its predecessor companies since completing a Doctorate in Chemistry from Arizona State University.

Gary began his career in Research and Development before moving into Oil and Chemicals Marketing and Strategic Planning. He is currently Group Vice President of the BP Group and also Head of BP for the Asia, Pacific Region.

Gary is on the Board of the China-US Centre for Sustainable Development as well as the Board of Directors of the China Business Council for Sustainable Development.

Gary was awarded China’s “Friendship Award” in the autumn of 2003 and received an honorary CMG from the UK in 2005. In December 2008 he was recognized by the People’s Daily as one of the 10 most influential Multinational Companies Leaders of the last 30 years of China’s Economic Development.

In 2009 Gary was selected as Director of LightWorks, a new initiative to position ASU as a leader in solar-based energy and other light-inspired research. In addition to directing LightWorks, Dirks has been appointed the Julie Wrigley Chair of Sustainable Practices and a


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professor of practice in the School of Sustainability. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees for Sustainability at ASU.

LightWorks will capitalize on ASU’s unique strengths in renewable energy fields including artificial photosynthesis, biofuels and next-generation photovoltaics. LightWorks will eventually broaden to include other light-based projects, such as lasers for biomedical applications and energy-efficient lighting.

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��Samir Dube

Managing Director, TectaSolar (Division of Tecta America Corp.)

Mr. Dube is the co-head of Tecta’s solar development and project finance business and is based in San Diego. He is responsible for project development and finance with a focus on the Western US for net-metered and utility-scale

grid-tied projects. He has successfully delivered turnkey Solar PV projects on Tribal Land in California. He recently joined Tecta from Epuron LLC, and has developed and sold over 7 MWp of Solar PV in the US including the 5th largest in the US. He is a former Public Finance Investment Banker who structured over $60 billion in municipal securities throughout the United States for a decade. Mr. Dube has a BS in Molecular Biology and minor in History from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Larry EchoHawk

Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, Department of Interior

Larry EchoHawk was sworn into office as the Interior Department’s 11th Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs on May 22, 2009. EchoHawk is an enrolled member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma whose nomination was

confirmed by the United States Senate on May 19, 2009. Secretary Salazar conducted the official swearing in ceremony.

EchoHawk comes to Interior from Brigham Young University in Utah, where he is a professor of law at BYU’s J. Reuben Clark Law School. His law career of over 35 years includes experience in the areas of legal aid services, federal Indian law, private practice, and public service as a tribal attorney, county prosecutor and, following his election in 1990, attorney general for the state of Idaho. In the 1980s, he served two consecutive terms in the Idaho House of Representatives.

EchoHawk also has served with organizations that focus on American Indian and youth issues. He is a past member of the American Indian Services National Advisory Board and Board of Trustees, the Indian Alcoholism Counseling and Recovery Housing Program and the American Indian Community Resource Center Board, and was appointed by President Clinton to the federal Coordinating Council on Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

EchoHawk received his Bachelor of Science degree in 1970 from BYU, where he was an outstanding football athlete, and his Juris Doctor degree in 1973 from the University of Utah.

A former U.S. Marine, EchoHawk is the first American Indian in U.S. history to be elected as a state attorney general.

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Janet L. Erickson

Counsel to Office of Indian Affairs, House Committee on Natural Resources

Roger M. Freeman

Managing Principal, Solventerra LLC

Roger is an energy entrepreneur and lawyer with more than 15 years experience starting, managing and advising alternative energy companies and investors. Prior to founding Solventerra, Roger was Managing

Director of Energy Ventures for Citizens Energy Corporation. At Citizens, Roger was co-founder and CEO of Citizens Wind, a wind power development division that developed and sold 225 MW of wind power and built an active development portfolio of more than 1500 MW throughout North America. He was also founder of Citizens Energy Services, a business division providing energy services to colleges and municipalities.

From 1999-2004 Roger practiced energy and corporate law in Boston where he had a national practice representing alternative energy companies and investors. He formed the New England Distributed Generation Coalition to advocate for distributed generation in Massachusetts and the Northeast. He was a member of the Massachusetts DG Collaborative and one of the primary drafters of the Massachusetts Interconnection Standards for distributed generation. From 1995-1999, Roger was the EVP and COO of Citizens Energy Corporation, where he managed business operations and legal affairs. He began his career in 1993 with the law firm O’Melveny & Myers, where he practiced corporate law.

Roger is a member of Em-Link, LLC, a service disabled veteran owned business offering renewable and alternative energy services to the Federal and state governments. He serves on the Board of Advisors for Urgent VC, a renewable energy development and finance company and Sustainability Roundtable, Inc. He remains Of Counsel to Ferriter Scobbo & Rodophele, an energy boutique law firm in Boston. He serves as Coordinator for the Energy and Environment Working Group of the Progressive Business Leaders Network and is on the Editorial Board of Advisors for Distributed Energy Magazine. Roger holds a J.D. from the University Of Virginia School Of Law and a BA in economics, with honors, from Oberlin College.

Robert (Bob) W Georgeoff

Managing Director, APS Energy Services

Bob brings with him over 20 years of energy and energy-related experience to his daily responsibilities as the Managing Director of APS Energy Services. With primary responsibilities for the Energy Solutions group, Bob oversees all

facets of APS Energy Services government relations, energy efficiency projects, renewable energy solutions, financial deal structuring, as well as, measurement and verification and risk management functions. Bob’s extensive knowledge of the energy and energy efficiency


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industry includes project development, supply side agreements, PPA deal structures, capital placements, renewable energy products and the operational management experiences for a Fortune 500 Company. Committing to a vision that APS Energy Services will become the premier energy services provider in the Southwest, Bob describes his group as a nimble, boutique firm that enjoys the backing of a stable 120 year old parent company.

Putting “people first”, Bob and his team cater to the public market segments including state agencies, cities, counties, school districts, universities and tribal government. While priorities may change amongst Clients, APS Energy Services’ solutions are centered on striking the balance between financial, environmental and social stewardship.

Bob obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from the University of Arizona, ongoing executive training from INSEAD and Wharton and is currently a member of the Arizona Chapter of the Energy Services Coalition.

Jennifer K. Giff

General Counsel, Gila River Indian Community

Jennifer Giff is a member of the Gila River Indian Community. She earned a B.S. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1989 and received her J.D. from Arizona State University in 1995. Ms. Giff has been

legal counsel for the Community since 1997. She has five years experience prosecuting criminal offenders in the Community’s courts. Since 2000, she has been certified as a Special Assistant United States Attorney to prosecute individuals committing crimes within the Community in the U.S. District Court of Arizona. She was appointed as General Counsel for the Community in 2006 and provides legal counsel and representation to the Community in all areas of Community government and litigation in tribal, state and federal courts.

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��Chief James Roan Gray

Principal Chief of the Osage Nation (2002- Present)

James Roan Gray is the Principal Chief of the Osage Nation, after his election to his second term; he led his Nation through some of the most dramatic changes throughout their sprawling 1.5 million acre Reservation and also in the history of the Osage. He is the youngest Chief elected in the history of the

Osage Nation. Today he is considered one of the leading voices in Native America.

He served as both Vice Chairman and Chairman of the Inter-Tribal Monitoring Association (ITMA) deliberating on the Federal Government’s mismanagement of Native American trust funds and currently serves as a board member. He serves as Chairman of the Executive Board of the Council of Energy Resource Tribe (CERT), serves as Co-Chair of the Tribal Budget Advisory Council, which sets the priorities for the Bureau of Indian Affair’s $2.3 billion budget. Chief Gray has accepted appointments to the Office of the Special Trustee Board of Advisors, Bureau of Indian Affairs, the Native American Rights Foundation, Intertribal Economic Alliance and recently appointed as Chairman, Tribal Energy Policy Advisory Committee.


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Recently became one of the founding Board members of The Indian Country Renewable Energy Consortium, an organization consisting of tribal governments and tribal corporations and Alaska Native Corporations dedicated to increasing the opportunities for meaningful tribal participation in the new green renewable energy economy. Chief Gray was also elected as the first-ever Chairman of the Board for this new organization.

Chief Gray’s work has been recognized over the years by many organizations such as the Honoring Nations Awards Program of Harvard University who presented Chief Gray, on behalf of the Osage Nation with the award of High Honors in 2008, the American Indian Tribal Leadership Award at REZ 2008 and he was recently awarded the National Indian Gaming Association’s Chairman’s Leadership Award 2009, to name just a few.

Chief Gray is also a distinguished journalist receiving his degree in Marketing at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, OK. Prior to his first term as Principal Chief, he was co-publisher of the largest independently owned Indian Newspaper in America, “the Native American Times. He and his wife Libbi, along with their children reside on the Osage Reservation.

Tex. G. Hall

Chairman, The Inter-Tribal Economic Alliance (ITEA)

Tex G. Hall, “Ihbudah Hishi” (“Red Tipped Arrow”), is a two-term President of theNational Congress of American Indians, and was twice-elected chairman of the Mandan,Hidatsa & Arikara Nation. Tex is the Chairman and C.E.O. of the Inter-Tribal Economic Alliance (ITEA), a national coalition of Indian tribes,

Alaska Native Corporations, and Native Hawaiian communities formed to create Indian jobs and businesses by promoting “Buy Indian”, Native 8a contracting, set-asides in federal spending bills, and Native-to- Native business and purchasing agreements. Tex also owns Maheshu Resources, an energy company promoting oil and gas leasing and development in the Bakken Oil Formation of western North Dakota which contains 4.3 billion barrels of recoverable oil. Tex started Maheshu with the goal of bringing prosperity back to his tribe. As NCAI President, Tex spearheaded campaigns to increase the Native vote, fight domestic violence, protect tribal sovereignty, settle the Cobell case, and began the practice of delivering annual State of the Indian Nations addresses. Tex is one of the founders of the Native American Bank and was Chairman of the Board of Directors from 1999 to 2006. Tex earned his B.A. from the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota and his Master’s Degree in Education from the University of South Dakota. He served as school Principal and Superintendent at the Mandaree School on his reservation for 11 years. In 1995, he was named North Dakota Indian Educator of the Year. In 2002, he received the University of Mary Leadership Award, his alma mater’s highest award, for his dedication to education. Tex has also been inducted into the North Dakota Amateur Basketball Hall of Fame, the National Indian Athletic Association Hall of Fame, and the Minot State University Bottineau Athletic Hall of Fame.


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��Todd Hooks

Economic Development Director, Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians

Born and raised in Monrovia California, Todd has worked for numerous Southern California cities and agencies in Economic Development and Redevelopment. Todd came to the Tribal Planning and Development Office from

the City of San Diego where he spent 5 years as the Redevelopment Deputy Director. He was responsible for the projects and activities of a redevelopment agency that encompassed over 8,000 acres with 10 project areas.

Prior to his time in San Diego, Todd worked for the cities of Burbank, San Bernardino and Pomona. His experience with implementing creative approaches to tough commercial, industrial, and housing projects in these cities has given him a firm background in working with the business sector, public agencies, and local community leaders. His job with the Tribe involves pursuing business and real estate development opportunities that benefit the Tribe and Tribal members. He also acts as an economic development liaison for the Tribe to the Cities of Palm Springs, Cathedral City, and Rancho Mirage as well as to the local Chambers of Commerce, Palm Springs EDC, and the Coachella Valley Association of Governments.

A resident of Cathedral City, Todd got his B.A. from Harvard University. He completed his education at UCLA with a Masters in Educational Administration.

James G. Kenna

State Director (AZ), Bureau of Land Management, DOI

B.A. (Economics), Prescott College, Prescott, Arizona Career Highlights:

• Associate State Director, Bureau of Land Management, Portland, Oregon • Deputy Assistant Director for Resources and Planning BLM, Washington, DC • Budget Analyst, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. • Field Manager, BLM, Palm Springs, California • Field Management positions, BLM, Burns, Prineville, & Lakeview, Oregon • Recreation Planner, BLM, Price, Utah • Wildland Firefighter, S.D.A., Forest Service, Prescott, Arizona • Providing leadership to establish Service First and Stewardship Contracting initiatives • Coordinating a national conservation strategy for sagebrush habitats with Western

Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies and Western Governors Association • Leadership in coordinated federal, state and local land use planning processes

balancing community needs, water rights and conservation of multiple species in southern California

• Work with communities and tribes leading to the establishment of the Santa Rosa and San Jacinto Mountains National Monument

• Work with the Border Area Fire Council in San Diego to address international border security, fire response, public safety and ecological issues

• Planning and integrating improvements in BLM’s budget effectiveness, workforce planning and business processes

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��Donald (Del) Laverdure

Principal Deputy Asst. Secretary of Indian Affairs, DOI

Donald “Del” Laverdure, an enrolled member of the Crow Tribe of Montana (Ties the Bundle Clan) with ancestry from the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana, was appointed by Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs Larry

Echo Hawk to the post of Deputy Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs effective July 29, 2009.

Mr. Laverdure came to Indian Affairs after having been instrumental in pushing for the Crow Tribe to endorse Senator Obama in the primaries for President of the United States, as well as serving on the American Indian Policy Advisory Council for the Obama for America campaign.

Since 2006, Mr. Laverdure had served as Chief Legal Counsel for the Executive Branch of the Crow Tribe, where he expanded and managed the Office of Legal Counsel and served as a senior advisor to the Chairman, the tribe’s top elected official. He also worked on a wide variety of issues for the tribe including federal water legislation, federal and local (state and tribal) tax issues and submission of tribal and state legislation. He also served as the tribe’s lead negotiator on several large energy projects, including Many Stars, a $7.5 billion coal-to-liquids project.

Mr. Laverdure also has held judgeships with his and other tribes including that of Chief Justice for the Crow Tribe Court of Appeals (2002-2006), where he also chaired the tribe’s Judicial Ethics Board, Pro-Tem Appellate Justice for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona Court of Appeals (2008-2009), Chief Appellate Judge for the Havasupai Tribe of Arizona (2006-2009) and Appellate Judge for the Keweenaw Bay Indian Community of Michigan (2003-2004).

From 2003 to 2006, Mr. Laverdure held the position of Assistant Professor of Law at the Michigan State University College of Law and was the founding director of its Indigenous Law Program. Prior to his positions with the Crow Tribe and Michigan State, Mr. Laverdure worked for the University of Wisconsin Law School (2001-2003), where he was a William H. Hastie Fellow, as an Adjunct Professor of Law and as Director of the Great Lakes Indian Law Center.

After law school, Mr. Laverdure engaged in private practice as an associate in two law firms as a tax attorney, Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. (1999-2000) and von Briesen & Roper, S.C. (2000-2001), where he was involved in structural tax planning and tax litigation for large and small 2 corporations, nonprofit organizations and more than 20 Indian nations, and as a partner in his own firm in Wisconsin, Michigan and Montana.

In fall of 2000, Mr. Laverdure was selected for and participated in President Clinton’s White House Initiative on Tribal Colleges and Universities.

In addition to having taught Federal Indian Law, Property, Constitutional Law, Indian Tax Law and Tribal Sovereignty seminars, Mr. Laverdure has written, testified (in the U.S. and Canadian Senates) and spoken extensively on a variety of Indian law topics, provided Pro Bono services, and co-created and taught courses for the first four Crow Tribe Bar Exams.

Mr. Laverdure earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering in 1995 from the University of Arizona and his Juris Doctor degree in 1999 from the University of Wisconsin Law School where he is also a LL.M Candidate (Indian tax). His law school honors include


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Advanced Opportunity Fellowship (1996-1999), LEO Program Indian Law Student of the Year (1998-1999), Law School Award, Highest Grade, Federal Indian Law (1997) and President of the Indian Law Students’ Association (1997-1998).

Mr. Laverdure’s professional memberships include the State Bar of Wisconsin (1999-Present), the State Bar of Michigan (2004-Present), the National American Indian Court Judges Association, the Native American Bar Association and the Federal Bar Association, Indian Law Section.

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��Tracey A. LeBeau

Sr. Managing Director, Public Law & Policy Strategies, Energy, Indian Law & Tribal Representation, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

University of Iowa College of Law, J.D., 1994 Stanford University, 1991

Tracey LeBeau brings a wealth of energy development experience to Sonnenschein. Ms. LeBeau’s unique energy investment and development experience provides her with the skills to advise clients on a wide range of issues related to energy, including wind and solar development, oil and gas exploration, midstream projects, conventional electric generation and electric transmission. She frequently manages project development activities for energy projects and is experienced at development agreement and site control negotiations, permitting advisory, due diligence, identification of equity or other investor partners, transmission interconnection advisory, and project structuring and regulatory work for institutional investment and government clients.

Before joining the firm, Ms. LeBeau co-founded Red Mountain Energy Partners, a successful energy technical consultancy firm which provides technical analysis for renewable projects, utilities, and energy, efficiency and conservation. Prior to founding Red Mountain, she was vice president of Innovation Investments, a private equity firm where she originated and managed development of large-scale wind projects. Ms. LeBeau continues to serve as a team member on those projects.

With respect to conventional energy development, Ms. LeBeau previously served as vice president for midstream gas and renewable development companies Earth Energy Environment, LLC (E3) and E3 Canada Corporation. Prior to that, she was a director at Kansas Pipeline Company and a director for American Energy Solutions, Inc., a national electricity and gas marketing firm.

Deanna Leon

President, Muht Hei, Inc., Campo Kumeyaay Nation

Ms. Leon serves as president of the Campo Kumeyaay Nation’s economic development corporation, Muht Hei, Inc. or “new land.” Ms. Leon has served in this capacity since April 2009. She joined the Muht Hei board of directors in 2006

and served in every board position before being selected as president. In her capacity as president, Ms. Leon oversees the day-to-day operations of the economic development


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corporation, conducts the board meetings and pursues economic development leads and opportunities for the tribe.

Prior to joining Muht Hei, Ms. Leon held positions as a supervisor for the Golden Acorn Casino and office manager for the Campo tribal government. Ms. Leon has completed several college-level courses in business administration. She grew up on the reservation and is the proud mother of two children.

Marcus D. Levings

Three Affiliated Tribes Chairman (2006-present)

Marcus D. Levings presently serves as the Tribal Business Council Chairman of the Three Affiliated Tribes: the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara of the Fort Berthold Reservation in western North Dakota. “Ee-Ba-Da-Gish” (Chairman

Levings’ traditional Hidatsa name which translates to “White Headed Eagle”) has devoutly served the people of the Three Affiliated Tribes for the past 11 years.

Levings previously served two consecutive, four-year terms as representative of the Four Bears Segment on the TAT Business Council from 1998-2006. During those eight years he served as the vice-chairman, secretary, and treasurer to the Tribal Business Council’s Executive Committee. Levings received his bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Finance from Dickinson State University in Dickinson, North Dakota, and obtained his master’s degree from the University of Mary, Master’s in Management program. He also serves as the Executive Secretary to the Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT) national Board of Directors for Tribes across the United States, and has been invited several times by United States Congress to present testimony on energy issues affecting Tribes. In addition, Chairman Levings serves as the area Vice President for the Great Plains Regional Caucus through the National Congress of American Indians.

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��Daniel (Dan) N. Lewis

Vice Chairman, Tribal Financial Advisors, Inc.

Dan Lewis is Vice Chairman of Tribal Financial Advisors, Inc. (TFA). Tribal Financial Advisors was founded in 2009 as an independent financial advisory firm that works exclusively for Indian Tribes to help them solve their financial

related needs and issues.

Prior to TFA, Dan served as Senior Vice President and National Market Executive for Bank of America. Since 1994, Dan made Bank of America the dominant financial institution serving Indian Country by coordinating a team that was responsible for lending and syndicating loans totaling more than $13 billion dollars.

Dan also elevated Bank of America's role as a leading investment manager of tribal assets, provider of retail banking services to tribal enterprises and tribal members, and a corporate leader in providing charitable contributions to various national Indian organizations.

Prior to joining Bank of America, Dan worked in Washington, D.C. for Senator John McCain as the Minority Staff Director of the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. In that


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capacity, Dan worked closely with Senator McCain and Senator Daniel K. Inouye on landmark legislation, including the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, Indian Tax and Employment Incentives, the National Museum of the American Indian and establishing the Tribal Self-Governance Act as a permanent program.

Dan has also served as the Director of the Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and as an Executive Staff Assistant to Peterson Zah, former Chairman of the Navajo Nation.

Dan is active in various local and national organizations, including the Fiesta Bowl, the University Medical Center Corporation, Phoenix Seminary, and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Dan is the past National Chairman of the Native American Advisory Committee to Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Under his leadership the number of Boys & Girls Clubs on Indian lands grew from 12 in 1994 to 200 in 2004.

Dan graduated from Biola University with a B.S. in Business Administration. He is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation. Dan, his wife, Jo Lynn, and daughter, Landry, reside in Phoenix, Arizona.

James (Jim) A. Manion

General Manager, Warm Springs Power & Water Enterprises (CTWS)

Jim is currently the General Manager for the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs energy enterprise, Warm Spring Power & Water which oversees the

operation of the tribe’s interest in the Pelton Round Butte Hydroelectric Project. Jim is also responsible for oversight on energy development activity on the 650,000 acre tribal land base. Additionally Jim has assisted the tribes in negotiating ROW’s including a two high voltage transmission corridors and one proposed natural gas crossing.

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��Patricia (Pat) S. Mariella

Ph.D., Economic Anthropology, Arizona State University M.A., Social Anthropology, Arizona State University B.A., Anthropology, University of Wisconsin

Patricia Mariella is the first Director of the American Indian Policy Institute at Arizona State University, which opened its doors in June of 2006. The American Indian Policy Institute is committed to tribally-driven participatory research and is able to bring together faculty teams with a wide range of expertise for research and policy-related projects.

From 1995 to 2006, Mariella was the Executive Director of the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) for the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona. The DEQ has over 25 staff members who work in Air Quality, Chemical Emergency Planning, Hazardous and Solid Waste, Outreach, Pesticides and Water Quality programs. In 1999 she received a US EPA Region 9 Environmental Leadership Award for her work with the environmental programs at Gila River. In 2000, the GRIC DEQ was the first tribal government to receive a Brownfield Showcase Community designation from EPA. The EPA also awarded the DEQ an Environmental Accomplishments award in 2002 for outstanding work in developing a chemical emergency response plan.


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Prior to joining Gila River in 1995, Dr. Mariella worked at the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality as the director of the Arizona Comparative Environmental Risk Project (ACERP), a multi-agency effort to prioritize environmental risks in Arizona. She was also the manager of the Ombudsman and Outreach Office; her responsibilities included management of environmental leadership, the department ombudsman, NEPA review and environmental education programs.

She was the research director for the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona where she worked from 1981 to 1991. Her work concentrated on regional and national policy issues as well as the provision of technical assistance to tribal governments on environmental regulation and management. Before joining ITCA, Mariella conducted her doctoral work with the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, preparing technical reports for Fort McDowell’s water settlement. She also participated in the Technical Agency Group overseeing the review of the proposed Orme Dam that would have flooded the Fort McDowell community.

She has published numerous articles on environmental management, tribal government and federal policy.��

D. Michael McBride III

Director & Chair, Indian Law & Gaming Practice Group Crowe & Dunlevy

Mr. McBride is chairman of the Firm’s Indian Law and Gaming Practice Group. McBride has dedicated his fifteen year legal career to Indian law, and has practiced primarily in the areas of federal Indian law and gaming, as well as

complex federal, civil and criminal litigation. He is one of two Oklahoma General Members of the International Masters of Gaming Law. In his new position with Crowe & Dunlevy, McBride will continue to represent tribes and tribal entities, as well as individuals and corporations conducting business with them.

McBride has served as the Attorney General for the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma and the Sac and Fox Nation and is currently a Justice for the Supreme Court of the Pawnee Nation. He is Tenth Circuit Vice President, as well as Chair of the Federal Bar Association's Indian Law Section, the largest Indian law organization in the country. McBride is also past chair of the Oklahoma Bar Association's Indian Law Section. McBride will serve as General Counsel to the Federal Bar Association in 2008-09 and will sit as an ex-officio member of the national Board of Directors.

He has also served as an adjunct professor at the University of Tulsa College of Law and is the author of more than thirty published articles and papers on federal Indian law and litigation. He currently serves as the associate editor of The Gaming Law Review.

McBride is a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association, the Tulsa County Bar Association and the American Indian Chamber of Commerce. He has been recognized by "Oklahoma Super Lawyers" for Indian Gaming, Political Law, and Business, and by Best Lawyers in America for "Native American Law."

The American Inns of Court, the Federal Bar Association, the American Indian Chamber of Commerce and the Tulsa County Bar Association have honored McBride with awards for his leadership, ethics and advocacy.


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�David A. Mullon Jr.

Minority Staff Director and Chief Counsel, Senate Committee on Indian

David A. Mullon Jr. currently serves as Republican Staff Director and Chief Counsel for the United States Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, under Vice Chairman John Barrasso—a position he held in the 110th Congress as well,

under Vice Chairman Lisa Murkowski. In the 109th Congress, he served on the Committee staff as Republican General Counsel under Chairman John McCain, and in the 108th Congress as Deputy Chief Counsel under Chairman Ben Nighthorse Campbell. Before joining the Committee staff in early 2003, Mr. Mullon practiced law in Oklahoma. In 1993 he became director of Cherokee Nation�s legal division under Principal Chief Wilma P. Mankiller. In 1996 he was appointed by the Principal Chief of Muscogee (Creek) Nation, R. Perry Beaver, to the position of Attorney General, and he served in that capacity until he returned to Cherokee Nation in November 1999. Mr. Mullon is a graduate of the University of Tulsa School of Law, the Thunderbird School of International Management, and the University of Arizona.

Katosha Nakai

Policy Advisor on Tribal Affairs, Office of Governor (AZ) Janice K. Brewer

Katosha Nakai currently serves as a Policy Advisor on Tribal Affairs to Arizona Governor Jan Brewer. Prior to state service, she practiced law at Lewis and Roca, LLP in Phoenix, where her practice focused on government regulation,

infrastructure and resource development. She regularly represented corporate, small business, tribal and non-profit interests, focusing primarily on matters relating to water, environmental, natural resources, mining, utility and gaming issues.

Ms. Nakai also held a prestigious judicial clerkship with Chief Judge Mary M. Schroeder at the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and has experience with the Arizona Supreme Court Staff Attorneys’ Office, Judge James Tielborg of the United States District Court, District of Arizona, and as a law clerk to the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation Legal Department. Before entering the legal profession, Ms. Nakai worked in television news as a reporter, anchor and producer in both Oklahoma City and Minneapolis/St. Paul. She also served as media coordinator of the National Marrow Donor Program, communications director for the American Indian College Fund, and communications director of the Minnesota Department of Children, Families & Learning. She has a long list of professional accomplishments and has been featured in various publications. Ms. Nakai is a member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and earned both her Juris Doctorate and her Indian Law Certificate from Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.

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��Simon J. Ortiz

Professor, Department of English, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dr. of Letters, University of New Mexico (Honorary

Simon J. Ortiz is an Indigenous poet and writer of Acoma Pueblo heritage who specializes in Indigenous Literature. Courses of study focus on decolonization

of Indigenous people's land, culture, and community. With literary perspective as a guide,

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research interests include cultural, social, political dynamics of Indigenous peoples of North, Central, and South America. Ortiz's publications in poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, essay, and children's literature reflect his literary perspective across a range of his varied, active engagement and involvement in contemporary Indigenous life and literature. His publications, research, varied experience and intellectual participation is the basis of his engaging approach to the study of-involvement-engagement with Indigenous literature and its place in the canon of world literatures. Ortiz is also the founder and coordinator of the Indigenous Speakers Series sponsored by ASU Department of English and American Indian Studies.

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��Lawrence S. Roberts

Of Counsel, Patton Boggs LLP

Larry Roberts is Of Counsel at Patton Boggs where he focuses on federal Indian law and environment and natural resources matters. Larry and his colleagues at

Patton Boggs assist clients on a wide variety of matters, including fee-to-trust acquisitions, compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act, and the development of conventional and renewable energy resources.

Before joining Patton Boggs, Larry served as a trial attorney in the Indian Resources Section of the United States Department of Justice. At the Justice Department, Larry served as lead trial attorney in matters ranging from treaty reserved fishing rights to tribal land claims and the defense of Interior’s approval of fee-to-trust applications. Larry also defended a number of cases challenging EPA’s approval of tribal water quality standards.

Larry also served as an attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, where he was involved in the implementation of federal environmental programs within Indian country, including implementation of the Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, and RCRA. Larry advised the Agency on issues related to the treatment of Tribes in the same manner as States for purposes of administering federal environmental programs within Indian country. He also assisted in matters involving numerous challenges to EPA’s approval of tribal applications to establish water quality standards within Indian reservations.

Larry is an enrolled member of the Oneida Tribe of Wisconsin.

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��Fawn R. Sharp (Invited)

President, Quinault Indian Nation

Fawn Sharp is the current President of the Quinault Indian Nation in Taholah, Washington. Her past positions included managing attorney and lead counsel; and staff attorney for the Quinault Indian Nation, administrative law judge for the

Washington state Department of Revenue – Tax Appeals Division, Quinault Tribal Court Associate Judge, and Counsel for Phillips, Krause & Brown.

Ms. Sharp has held numerous leadership positions, including an appointment by Governor Gary Locke to serve as Trustee for Grays Harbor College, Governor of the Washington State Bar Association, Trustee of Washington State Bar Association – Indian Law Section, Vice President and Founding Member for the National Intertribal Tax Alliance, and


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Director/Secretary of the Quinault Nation Enterprises Board. Fawn has conducted lectures and publications all over the United States.

Ms. Sharp graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Gonzaga University in Spokane Washington at the age of 19. She received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Washington in 1995 and has subsequently received certificates from the National Judicial College at the University of Nevada, and from the International Human Rights Law at Oxford University.

Alan Stephens

State Director (AZ), Department of Agriculture for Rural Development

Alan Stephens was appointed State Director of USDA Rural Development/Arizona in October 2009, by the Obama Administration. He served 7 years previously as State Director which included a stint as Acting

Associate Administrator for Housing, in Washington DC, during the Clinton Administration.

Alan has held a number of positions during his public service career. Most recently, he served as advisor to Corporation Commissioner Paul Newman where he worked on numerous issues relating to renewable energy policy and energy efficiency.

Alan served as Governor Napolitano’s Co-Chief of Staff for Operations for more than four years. He supervised the Deputy Chiefs of Staff for budget and urban affairs, and the Policy Advisors responsible for natural resources, transportation, health and human services, tribal affairs and regulatory agencies.

Alan served eight years as an Arizona State Senator, representing an urban/rural district. He served two terms as Minority Leader and one term as Majority Leader.

Alan has held several leadership roles in non-profit organizations including the County Supervisors Association, Western Progress, and two behavioral health organizations. Alan resides in Phoenix with his spouse Leslie Hatfield, an attorney. They have two sons, Alec and

Ross.

Bill Stevens

Senior Wind Energy Develop, Citizens Energy

Bill Stevens is a Sr. Wind Energy Developer with Citizens Energy who is focusing on development activities in the Midwest and Western US, and international projects. Mr. Stevens has spent over eleven years working in the renewable

energy industry, including the start-up and greenfield development of three utility scale wind farms in Southwestern Pennsylvania. After six years in Tokyo and Singapore in the project finance department of a major Japanese bank, Bill’s career in renewable energy began in 1998 with Enron Wind (now a division of GE Energy) where he helped close the debt and equity project financings of the first four utility scale wind projects in the US. After a few years with Black & Veatch he formed his own wind development company and successfully developed to “shovel ready” status three greenfield wind farms totaling 135MW, two of which are currently operational. He then spent two years with GE Energy Financial Services primarily as the asset manager of a 517MW gas-fired peaker plant near Tampa, FL. Mr.


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Stevens received an undergraduate degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and an associate’s degree from New Mexico Military Institute along with a commission in the US Army.

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��Jonny BearCub Stiffarm

Business Development Director for NativeEnergy

Jonny BearCub Stiffarm, an enrolled member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine & Sioux Nation, is the Business Development Director for NativeEnergy. She has a wealth of experience in negotiation, small business development, contracts,

and leadership. She served in Mayor Wellington Webb’s administration as the Deputy Director of the Mayor’s Office of Contract Compliance for both the City and Denver International Airport and his Native American Indian Liaison to the local, regional and national Indian Nation entities. She received her undergraduate from Brigham Young University and a juris doctorate from the University of Minnesota School Of Law. She is licensed in the state of Colorado.

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��Dean B. Suagee

Mr. Suagee is Of Counsel to the law firm of Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP, Washington, D.C., a firm that specializes in serving as legal counsel for American Indian and Alaska Native tribal governments and tribal organizations. His practice emphasizes environmental law and cultural resources law, and he has worked with a number of tribes in developing tribal legislation and

regulations.

Mr. Suagee is the author of a number of law journal articles on environmental and cultural resources law in Indian country, and is a contributing author of the 2005 edition of Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law. As a member of the American Bar Association, Section of Environment, Energy & Resources, he serves as a vice-chair of the Native American Resources Committee and an Assistant Editor for Natural Resources & Environment, a quarterly journal. In the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources Section of the D.C. Bar, he is chair of the Indian Law Committee.

He received his B.A. from the University of Arizona in 1972, J.D. from the University of North Carolina in 1976, and LL.M. in international legal studies from the American University in 1989. He is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation.

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��Victoria (Vickie) Sutton

Professor, Texas Tech University School of Law

Prof. Sutton is the Robert H. Bean Professor of Law and Director of the Energy Law Certificate Program, among other responsibilities. She teaches courses in environmental law and energy law, including a course entitled Wind Energy Law.

Before coming to Texas Tech University, Prof. Sutton served in two senior federal government appointments, in two different Presidential administrations, one as a professional scientist, the other as a practicing attorney. She was Assistant Director in the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy (also known as the White House Science Office) in the Pres. George H.W.


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Bush Administration; and later served as Chief Counsel for the Research and Innovative Technology Administration in the U.S. Department of Transportation in the Pres. George W. Bush Administration. Prof. Sutton has also served on Committees of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

At Texas Tech University, Prof.. Sutton was awarded the Distinguished Faculty Leadership Award, and award not made every year; and the university-wide President's Book Award for her groundbreaking casebook Law and Science: Cases and Materials. In 2005, she received the Distinguished Alumni Award from Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, where she received her MPA, and was nominated for the Alumni Achievement Award at the University of Texas at Dallas, where she received her PhD.

J.D., magna cum laude from American University, Washington College of Law Ph.D., Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas at Dallas M.P.A., Old Dominion University B.S. in Zoology and B.S. in Animal Science cum laude from North Carolina State University

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��Pilar Thomas

Deputy Solicitor for Indian Affairs, DOI

Pilar Thomas was named Deputy Solicitor for Indian Affairs, in the U.S. Department of Interior, Office of the Solicitor in the fall of 2009

As Deputy Solicitor for Indian Affairs, Thomas will provide legal advice and counsel to Department officials regarding all legal matters related to Indian law issues for the Department of Interior, including the Department’s trust responsibilities, litigation, Indian affairs, energy and minerals, land, water and environmental matters. Her primary responsibilities also include providing guidance and legal advice regarding strategy, policy, program formulation, and agency action. She will also be responsible for representing the Department before various constituencies, including the White House, Indian tribes, congressional committees, and state and local governments.

While at Lewis and Roca, Thomas’ practice focused on Indian gaming and tribal economic development. She assisted clients with tribal gaming regulations, gaming-related transactions, litigation, and business development and energy development efforts. She also assisted other practice groups, such as energy development and public finance, in matters related to tribes and tribal enterprises.

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��Rebecca Tsosie

Professor of Law, Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar, Executive Director Indian Legal Program, Affiliated Professor, American Indian Studies Program, and Faculty Fellow, Center for Law and Global Affairs

Professor Rebecca Tsosie, J.D., has served as Executive Director of the top-ranked Indian Legal Program in the Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University since 1996. Professor Tsosie has written and published widely on doctrinal and theoretical issues related to tribal sovereignty, environmental policy, and cultural rights. Professor Tsosie is the author of many prominent articles dealing with cultural


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resources and cultural pluralism. She has used this work as a foundation for her newest research, which deals with Native rights to genetic resources. Professor Tsosie, who is of Yaqui descent, has also worked extensively with tribal governments and organizations. She serves as a Supreme Court Justice for the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation and as a Court of Appeals Judge for the San Carlos Tribal Court of Appeals. Professor Tsosie speaks at several national conferences each year on topics related to tribal sovereignty, self-determination, and tribal rights to environmental and cultural resources. She was appointed as a Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar in 2005. Prior to this, she held the title of Lincoln Professor of Native American Law and Ethics. Professor Tsosie is an Affiliated Professor in the American Indian Studies Program. She joined the faculty of the College of Law in 1993 and teaches in the areas of Indian law, Property, Bioethics, and Critical Race Theory. She is the co-author with Robert Clinton and Carole Goldberg of a federal Indian law casebook entitled American Indian Law: Native Nations and the Federal System. Professor Tsosie was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship and received the American Bar Association's "2002 Spirit of Excellence Award." She is the 2006 recipient of the "Judge Learned Hand Award" for Public Service.

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�Thomas L. Whitman

Founder and Sole Member, The Whitman Group LLC President, Native American New Markets Investment Fund, LLC

Tom founded The Whitman Group in January, 2007 where he concentrates on providing tax exempt bond advisory services nationally through a contract with a top 10 Commercial Bank. Additionally, Tom works with several Native

American enterprises on New Market Tax Credit driven projects and is presently working on several non-Tribal alternative energy start up projects. Prior to forming The Whitman Group, Tom held various investment banking positions with Huntington Capital Corporation, Banc One Capital Markets, Morgan Keegan & Company and JP Morgan Securities. During his time with Banc One/ JP Morgan, Tom was a Managing Director and Cluster Chairman of the Mid-Tier Group and the Native American Finance Group within public finance.

Native American New Markets is a Community Development Entity solely established to work with Native American Tribes on New Market Tax Credit and economic/community development opportunities.

Tom attended Muskingum University in New Concord, Ohio where he graduated with honors in Economics, Political Science and History. Tom received an MBA from the University of Dayton.

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��Rollie E. Wilson

Senior Counsel, Senate Committee on Indian Affairs

Rollie Wilson is Senior Counsel for the Committee on Indian Affairs where he works on energy, water, agriculture, trust management, and natural resource issues for the Committee Chairman, Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota. Prior to joining the Committee, Mr. Wilson worked on Indian law and policy

issues at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, the Department of Energy, the Department of the Interior, and the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.�

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