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  • Diana Onco-Ingyadet, Co-chair
    Navajo Nation, Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, Comanche Nation
    Associate Director of Academic Affairs, Yale Young Global Scholars
  • Jennifer Rawlings, Co-chair
    Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe, Pokanoket Nation
    Senior Contracts Manager
  • Cayetana Navarro
    Chichimeca, Guamare
    DEI Program Manager, YSM Department of Medicine

  • Charmayne Allen
    Navajo Nation
     Assistant Director of Student Affairs, Yale College
     
  • Tarren Andrews
    Bitterroot Salish, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
    Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies
     
  • Dannika Avent
    Descendant of the Wampanoag and Narragansett tribes
    Director of Sustainable Equity & Inclusion/ Deputy Title IX Coordinator
     
  • Ned Blackhawk
     
  • Ryan Buckley
    Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
    Instructor, Yale School of Medicine, Department of Emergency Medicine and Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, & Sleep Medicine 
  • Kristin Butler
    Nipmuc Nation, Asst. Director of Operations, Saybrook College
     
  • Maria Crouch
     
  • Christopher Cutter
     
  • Patrick Del Percio
     
  • Elizabeth Duenkel
     
  • Kealoha Freidenburg
    Kānaka maoli (Native Hawaiian)
    Lecturer, Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies, Environmental Studies B.S. program
     
  • Laura Fuller-Weston
    Seminole
    Lead Pathology IHC Clinical Technologist 
     
  • Stefanie Gillson
    Dakota-Mdewakanton 
    Child Psychiatrist, Child Study Center, National Clinical Scholars Program
     
  • Patrick Gonzales-Rogers
     
  • Leigh-Anna Hidalgo
     
  • Hi’ilei Hobart
  • Amanda Jones
    Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Institutional Compliance Program Manager, Office of the General Counsel 
     
  • Kristy Leonard
     
  • Ian MacMillan
    Potawatomi
    Lecturer in Music, Lecturer in Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies
     
  • Angie Makomenaw
    Saginaw Chippewa, Mescalero Apache
    Community Wellness Specialist, Yale College Community Care (YC3)
     
  • Matthew Makomenaw
     
  • Denise Morales
     
  • Cayetana Navarro
    Chichimeca, Guamare
    DEI Program Manager, YSM Department of Medicine
     
  • Jennifer Newman
     Member of Wassamasaw Tribe of Varnertown Indians, Summerville, SC; Associate Artistic Director, Schwarzman Center
  • Diana Onco-Ingyadet
    Navajo Nation, Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, Comanche Nation
    Associate Director of Academic Affairs, Yale Young Global Scholars
     
  • Malia Piper
    Kanaka Maoli 
    Assistant Director of Teaching Development and Initiatives, Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning
     
  • Jennifer Rawlings
    Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe, Pokanoket Nation
    Senior Contracts Manager
     
  • Angela Richard-Eaglin
     
  • Gerald Torres
     
  • Mary Valencia
     
  • Katherine Viera
     
  • Will Walker
    Cherokee Nation, Choctaw Nation, Blackfoot Nation
    Computer/Media Technician, Yale School of the Environment
     
  • Royce Young Wolf