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Staff “NAAF joins with all Native

food communities – through
Janie Simms Hipp Chickasaw Michael Kotutwa Johnson Hopi
CEO Research Associate working with farmers, ranchers

Vincent Logan Wahzhazhi - Osage Sandy Martini Cherokee or fishers – in seeking a future
CFO/CIO Senior Director where our food economies

Kathy Callahan Cherokee Karli Moore Lumbee are thriving, our people are
Chief Operating Officer Associate Program Officer
healthy, and our contributions
Cindy Farlee Itázipcho Lakhóta Tom Occhipinti to the food and agriculture
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Associate Program Officer Associate – Investment Program
community at large is
Graham Gaither Valerie Segrest Muckleshoot
Executive Administrative Assistant Regional Director celebrated.”

Maria Givens Coeur d’Alene Toni Stanger-McLaughlin Colville YOUTH ENGAGEMENT IN MONTANA – Janie Hipp (Chickasaw),
Communications and Regional Director “Center Pole, a Native led organization and NAAF
Public Relations Director CEO, NAAF
Maria Wakan Fort Peck Sioux Tribes grantee, promotes a healthy community through
Joe L. Graham Pueblo of Laguna Grants Program Assistant an elder and youth mentorship program.”
Regional Director
Christy Walker
Sarah Hiatt Staff Accountant
Executive Administrative Assistant –
Board of Trustees Liaison

LEARNING FROM QUAPAW PEPPERS AT THE SOUTHWEST INDIAN
“Chris Roper, Director of Agriculture for the POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
Quapaw Tribe, shows the NAAF Board their cattle “SIPI, a Fast Track grantee, has converted their
operation.” greenhouses into an Agriculture Training
Complex to share knowledge through this land
grant institution.”

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