We’ve spent years working across Indian Country—on reservations, in community hubs, with tribal enterprises, Native nonprofits, urban Indian organizations, and state partners. We’ve run interviews, evaluations, and focus groups; led statewide studies and economic analyses; and sat in the rooms where partnerships were formed or broke down. That work taught us what tribal governments are asked to carry, where systems are strong, where gaps recur, and what actually helps people succeed for more than one funding cycle.
Builds institutions, partnerships, and programs from scratch.
- Creates organizations where none existed—charter school networks, nonprofit accelerators, cross-sector initiatives.
- Designs systems that bridge tribal governments, federal agencies, and private partners.
- Turns crowded rooms into aligned, working coalitions.
- Moves strategy from paper to practice with operational clarity.
Tribal Affiliation: Northern and Southern Paiute, Pawnee, and Comanche Nations.
Education: MBA, Darden School of Business · BA, University of Virginia
Builds tools, datasets, and evidence where the field had gaps.
- Creates analytical tools and platforms that didn’t exist—including data dashboards and applications for tribal communities.
- Built the first comprehensive federal dataset on Native enterprise and economic impact.
- Turns incomplete data into rigorous evidence that moves policy and investment.
- Makes the quantitative case for what Indian Country already knows.
Tribal Affiliation: Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation.
Education: PhD Candidate, Cornell University · BA, Dartmouth College
Together
Together, we take that perspective and build things that work in real life: institutions that outlast leadership turnover, tools and datasets that remove guesswork, strategies that come off the page, and partnerships that sustain momentum. Our best work starts at zero and ends at operational—building evidence, alignment, and capacity so tribal nations and Native-serving institutions can run programs, systems, and enterprises without relying on us.