Board of Directors

Executive Committee

President/Ex-Officio John Poupart Lac du Flambeau Band of Chippewa (WI) AIPC President 1463 Hewitt Avenue St. Paul, MN 55104	Treasurer Marie Failinger Professor, Hamline University School of Law 1536 Hewitt Avenue St. Paul, MN 55104
Chair Jessica Ryan Brothertown (WI) Attorney, Bluedog Law Office 4036 16th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55407	Secretary Sheryl Lightfoot L’Anse Lake Superior Band of Chippewa (MI) Independent Consultant 15162 Dakota Trail North Prior Lake, MN 55372
Vice Chair Peggy Roy National Indian Council on Aging, 1821 University Avenue Suite S-308, St. Paul, MN 55104

Board Members

Gene Artishon	Kim Strand Lac Courte Orielles (WI) MEDA Business Consultant 250 2nd Ave S Minneapolis , MN 55404
Dr. David Born Professor, University of Minnesota Division of Health Ecology 15-136 Moos Tower Minneapolis, MN 55455	Bill Carter Grand Portage Band of Chippewa (MN) City of Minneapolis Health & Family Support 250 South 4th Street - Room 110 Minneapolis, MN 55415-1372
Larry Leventhal Attorney, Leventhal & Associates 529 South 7th Street Suite 420 Sexton Building Minneapolis, MN 55415	Sandy Glass-Sirany White Earth Band of Chippewa (MN) Attorney / Legislative Analyst 5396 Lexington Avenue North Shoreview, MN 55126
Dr. David Wilkins Lumbee (NC) Professor, University of Minnesota 2 Scott Hall 72 Pleasant Street SE Minneapolis, MN 55455	Roy Taylor Pawnee / Choctaw (OK) RTS TAKA Consulting 5036 Luverne Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55419
Dr. Sally Hunter White Earth Band of Chippewa (MN) Professor, St. Thomas University 2174 Berkley Avenue St. Paul, MN 55105

Honorary Board Members

Gregg Bourland
Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe (SD)

Dr. Vine Deloria Jr.
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe (SD)

Dr Vine Deloria Walked on and we talk him for all he has done in the community and for the people.

Bobby Whitefeather
Red Lake Band of Ojibwe (Minn.)

John Poupart

Education: Masters of Public Policy (MPA), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1980. BA, Criminal Justice, University of Minnesota, 1977. Leadership Seminar, Hubert H. Humphrey Institute, 1983. Paradox of Leadership, 1985

Employment: President and founder of the American Indian Policy Center, a unique non-profit American Indian organization that does research (Reality-based) and advocacy for American Indians policy issues. The mission of the organization is to provide accurate historic and cultural information about American Indians.

Related Experience: Poupart is responsible directly and indirectly for helping start many American Indian social service programs in Minnesota. He is founder of Anishinabe Longhouse, a culturally specific Corrections halfway house for American Indian ex-offenders. He was appointed by Governor Rudy Perpich as Ombudsman for Corrections; served on the Minneapolis Civil Rights Commission; Minneapolis City Planning Commission, and; Minneapolis Charter Commission.

Poupart retired ten years ago from the Department of Corrections after 23 years of excellent service. He has brought members of the American Indian community together to start a new Indian leadership group in St. Paul (St. Paul Indians in Action). He sponsored a number of Policy and Issues Forums for the Indian community and for non-Indians that work with the Indian communities. He was responsible for creating a Health Disparities Committee in the Indian community of Minneapolis, and a committee to address the disparities of American Indian children placed out of home in Minnesota.