I was employed as the Tribal Administrator for Mooretown Rancheria for six years. I successfully secured a million dollars in grant funds for a variety of projects from language preservation to Tribal Youth Program during this time. Over the past two years I have worked extensively on a local language revitalization project.
Credit Manager for seventeen years for the Hoopa Valley Tribe. During my time with this tribe, I built the loan portfolio to more than 3 million dollars, formed a partnership with a non-native investment corporation to leverage more than $1.2 million in new home loans, and converted the Tribal Credit Program to a CDFI (Community Development Financial Institution) ...