ADVISORY BOARD
John Bryant: Founder, Chairman, CEO of Operation Hope and Vice Chairman
U.S. President’s Advisory Council on Financial Literacy, Washington DC.
LaDonna Harris: (Comanche Nation) Albuquerque, New Mexico – Founder, of
Americans for Indian Opportunity.
George Burdeau: (Blackfeet Nation) Santa Fe New Mexico – First American
Indian Director to be admitted to the DGA.
Elizabeth Kucinich: (Washington DC) – wife of Dennis Kucinich.
Dan Aykroyd: (Los Angeles CA) – Blues Brother, Actor.
Sage Galesi –Born Jicarilla and Mescalero Apache, Spanish-Sephardic and Italian lineal descendant, she holds familial ties to the Ohkay Owingeh, Lakota, Pawnee, Pojoaque, Diné, Paiute, Southern Ute, Haudenosaunee, Mescalero Apache, and Lakota Nations. Sage’s grandfather was born on the Jicarilla Reservation and her great-great-grandma from her mother’s father side was born on the Mescalero reservation. Sage a former board member of Red Nation Celebration Institute, held for 14 yrs. Sage is a Graduate of Yale University 2008. A mother of three. Sage, daughter of Joanelle Romero.
She is known as an actress and singer/writer.
The Saints: Take Me to the South (Video short – director Kristen Stewart)
Hey There Stranger (TV Movie) Into the West (TV Mini-Series) Black Cloud (Movie)
Frozen Lake (as Elizabeth ‘Sage’ Galesi) DreamKeeper (TV Movie – Mae Little Wounded / Blue Bird Woman) Michael Jackson: Black or White (Video short).
Lisa Tiger: (Muscogee/Creek/Seminole/
Mexico. HIV/AIDS educator and motivational speaker. Lisa has been doing
AIDS education since learning she was infected with the virus in 1992.
Infected by a boyfriend in 1988, in her hometown of Muskogee, Oklahoma,
she went from HIV to AIDS in 1999. Lisa has won numerous awards for her
work as an AIDS educator. For over a decade Lisa has dedicated her life to
raising abandoned and abused children.
Becky Akins MA: – (Mohawk Nation) – Tucson AZ. – Nicotrigo, LLC.
Grantwriting for Native Americans.
Dr. Anthony Stately: Ph. D. former AIDS Project LA.
Dr. Joel Silbar: (Woodland HiIls CA) Silbar Chiropractic.
Easi Morales: (Los Angeles CA) – “NYPD Blues” PBS “American Family, Actor.
Larry Sellers: Lakota/Osage Nations – (Tulsa, OK) – traditional ceremonial
leader and actor who played the leading Indian role Cloud Dancing in the
popular series “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.”