Board and Staff
Gabrielle Strong
Board Chair (2008)
Sisseton Wahpeton & Mdewakanton Dakota
Mary Erler Peters
Vice Chair (2002)
Retired
Co-Founder
Darin Minkel
Treasurer (2015)
Business Consultant
Lower Sioux Community
Winona Goodthunder
Secretary (2015)
Minnesota State University Moorehead Student & Check and Connect Monitor,
Fargo Public Schools
Lower Sioux Community
Evelyn Tsinnijinne
At-Large (2015)
Personal Training & Health Professional
Lower Sioux Descendant
Staff
Eileen O’Keefe
Program & Finance Director
Lower Sioux Community
eokeefe@dakotawicohan.com
Doris Stands
Program Assistant
Lower Sioux Community
dstands@dakotawicohan.com
Laverne Goodthunder
Youth Worker
Lower Sioux Community
Ryan Dixon
Youth Worker
Pine Ridge
Dylan Jubera
Office Assistant
Lower Sioux Community
djubera@dakotawicohan.com
Advisors
Walter LaBatte Jr
Artist, retired, proficient speaker
Upper Sioux Community
Iyekiyapiwiƞ Darlene St. Clair
Professor, St. Cloud State University
Lower Sioux Community
Community Language Leaders
Samantha Odegard
Upper Sioux Community
Vanessa Goodthunder
Lower Sioux Community
Ryan Dixon
Pine Ridge