Board and Staff
Gabrielle Strong
Board Chair (2008)
Sisseton Wahpeton & Mdewakanton Dakota
Teresa Peterson
Vice Chair (2018)
Upper Sioux Community
Evelyn Luna
Treasurer (2015)
Lower Sioux Community
Raine Cloud
Board Member (2022)
Sisseton Wahpeton
Mary Erler Peters
Board Secretary (2002)
Lower Sioux Community
Staff
Eileen O’Keefe
Executive Director
Lower Sioux Community
eokeefe@dakotawicohan.com
Doris Stands
Operations Manager
Lower Sioux Community
dstands@dakotawicohan.com
Priscilla Gruendemann
Program Coordinator
Lower Sioux Community
priscilladee@dakotawicohan.com
Sandra Jackson
Culture & Language Specialist
Yankton Sioux Community
sjackson@dakotawicohan.com
Mariah Heffner
Outreach & Support Specialist
Bad River Band of Lake Superior
mariah.heffner@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