Sealaska Heritage Institute

SHI's Board of Trustees

SHI
board.

Sealaska Heritage is governed by a thirteen-member Board of Trustees, who are members of the Tlingit, Haida, and Tsimshian Tribes and who provide policy direction and fiscal and programmatic oversight to ensure that we carry out our mission efficiently and responsibly. The Board of Trustees includes the following members: 

  • Chair: Vicki Soboleff
  • Vice Chair: Mike Miller
  • Treasurer: Barbara Cadiente-Nelson
  • Secretary: Marcella Asicksik
  • Lee Wallace
  • ‘Wáahlaal Gíidaak Barbara Blake
  • Liz Medicine Crow
  • Ka’illjuus Lisa Lang
  • Nathan McCowan
  • Joe Nelson (ex-officio)
  • Preston Singletary
  • Karen Taug
  • Maria Williams
  • Alicia Marvin
TRADITIONAL SCHOLARS
committee.
Sealaska Heritage is guided by a Council of Traditional Scholars, which includes the following members:
  • Kaax̱kaatuklag̱é Ken Grant, Chair
  • Ḵaanáḵ Ruth Demmert
  • Ḵinkawduneek Paul Marks
  • Yeilnaawú Joe Zuboff
  • Xúuts Kéenggulaa Robert Edwardson
  • Shiggoap Alfie Price
NATIVE ARTISTS
committee.

Sealaska Heritage is guided by a Native Artist Committee, which includes the following members:

  • Dr. Delores Churchill
  • Dr. X’unei Lance Twitchell, University of Alaska Southeast Representative
  • Crystal Rose Demientieff Worl, Institute of American Indian Art Representative
  • Da-ka-xeen Mehner
  • John C. Hudson III
  • Nicholas Galanin (not pictured)

 

Honorary Committee Members
Sealaska Heritage gratefully acknowledges the following artists who comprised our inaugural Native Artist Committee. Their work set the stage for SHI’s art programming, which has become recognized throughout the state and nation:

  • Steve Brown
  • Dr. Delores Churchill
  • Nicholas Galanin
  • Nathan Jackson
  • Da-ka-xeen Mehner
SOUTHEAST REGIONAL LANGUAGES
committee.

Sealaska Heritage is guided by a Native Artist Committee, which includes the following members:

Sealaska Heritage is guided by a Southeast Regional Language Committee, which includes the following members:

Sm’algya̱x:

  • Donna May Roberts (ShuGuyna)
  • David R. Boxley (Gyibaawm Laxha)

 

X̱aad Kíl:

  • Linda Schrack (Skil Jáadei)
  • Benjamin Young (K’uyáang)

 

Lingít:

  • Mary Folletti (Daaljíni)
  • Lance Twitchell (X̱’unei)
DEVELOPMENT
committee.
Sealaska Heritage Institute’s Development Committee works with our trustees to assure the fiscal well-being of SHI through philanthropy and fund development. The Development Committee includes the following members:
  • Nathan McCowan, Chair
  • Maria Williams
  • Barbara Cadiente-Nelson
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