Leadership
We Are Still Here is led by Tara Manthey (Osage Nation) and Stephanie Cote (Anishinaabe), advised by a committee of Alliance grantees with Native heritage, and supported by Alliance staff.
Together, this leadership group co-developed a process to address our gaps in knowledge and understanding, and to inform an approach to culturally-safe collaboration. The Advisory Committee helps shape the overall learning arc of We Are Still Here, including identifying potential topics and speakers for webinars, keeping the Alliance staff and contractors accountable to our intended purpose, and helping the Alliance and our network of advocates learn how to partner in genuine ways with Tribes and urban Native communities.
Project Leaders:
Tara Manthey
Osage Nation Principal, Returning Light Consulting
Stephanie Cote
Anishinaabe Principal, Eagle Woman Soars
Leadership Committee:
Chelsea Bellon
Yankton Sioux Program Manager, Tribal Public Health Programs, National Indian Health Board
Emma Bigheart
Osage Nation Community and Tribal Relations Specialist, Oklahoma Partnership for School Readiness
Chevelle Davis
Kanaka 'Ōiwi (Native Hawaiian)
Co-Founder, Hawai'i Perinatal, Research, Equity, and Systems Collaborative
Barb Fabre
White Earth Ojibwe Nation President & CEO, All Nations Rise (MN)
Cheryl Kary
Standing Rock Sioux Executive Director, Sacred Pipe Resource Center (ND)
Terrelene Massey
Diné Executive Director, Southwest Women’s Law Center (NM)
Callie Parr
First Generation Descendant of Little Shell Chippewa Tribe of Montana Early Childhood Tribal Coordinator, Zero to Five Montana
Jessica Saniġaq Ullrich
Nome Eskimo Community,Descendant of Native Village of Wales Board of Directors, Alaska Children’s Trust
Alliance Staff:
Mandy Ableidinger
Senior Policy Director
Jacy Montoya Price
Senior Director, Advocacy and Issue Campaigns