Faculty Presenters – Tribal Leadership Academy

DR. ALLISON BARLOW

Dr. Barlow is Director of the Center for Indigenous Health at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Her research and program areas of expertise center on child, adolescent and family health and youth development for reservation-based Native American communities.

She played a leadership role in developing a public health certificate program at Johns Hopkins in American Indian Health for Native scholars and allied health professionals. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College, a Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins, and a Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam.

JAY CALHOUN (Cherokee)

Calhoun is Managing Partner of Apis Holdings, a strategic advisory and private investment firm in Oklahoma. Prior to founding Apil, Calhoun oversaw strategic investments and built a portfolio of successful private companies for the Cherokee Nation. Calhoun earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Oklahoma and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

AJA DECOTEAU (Yakama)

Aja DeCoteau is the Executive Director of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission in Portland, Oregon. She has over two decades experience working in the area of natural resource management and policy in the Columbia River basin.

She serves as a trustee (or director) of numerous environmental organizations, including the National Parks Service Advisory Board, the Yale Center for Environmental Justice Advisory Council, American Rivers, and Earthjustice. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and a Master of Environmental Management from Yale University’s School of the Environment.

HONORABLE CARRIE GARROW (Mohawk)

Judge Garrow serves as Chief Judge, Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Courts. She previously served as Visiting Assistant Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Indigenous Law, Governance & Citizenship at Syracuse University College of Law. She co-authored Tribal Criminal Law and Procedure (2nd edition) with Sarah Deer.

Carrie Garrow, J.D., M.P.A., received her undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College, her law degree from Stanford Law School, and a master’s in public policy from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She is admitted to the State Bar of California. Judge Garrow has worked as a Visiting Assistant Professor and as the Executive Director of the Center for Indigenous Law, Governance & Citizenship at Syracuse University College of Law. She is also a consultant with Tribal Law and Policy Institute and has had the opportunity to travel to numerous Indian nations to provide training to tribal courts. She has co-authored Tribal Criminal Law and Procedure (2nd edition) with Sarah Deer, in addition to writing several articles on tribal law and governance. Some of these articles include: Joseph Thomas Flies-Away & Carrie E. Garrow, Healing to Wellness Courts: Therapeutic Jurisprudence +, 403 Michigan State Law Review 403 (2013); The freedom to pass and repass: can the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples keep the border ten feet above our heads? Indigenous Rights in the Age of the UN Declaration (Elvira Pulitano, ed 2012); Treaties, Tribal Courts, and Jurisdiction: The Treaty of Canandaigua and the Six Nations’ Sovereign Right to Exercise Criminal Jurisdiction, 2 Journal of Court Innovation 249 (2009); Following Deskaheh’s Legacy: Reclaiming the Cayuga Indian Nation’s Land Rights in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, 35 Syracuse J. Int’l L. & Com. 341 (2008); Joseph Thomas Flies-Away, Carrie Garrow & Miriam Jorgensen,Native Nation Courts: Key Players in Nation Rebuilding, in Rebuilding Native Nations, Strategies for Governance and Development 115 (Miriam Jorgensen ed., 2007)

DAWSON HER MANY HORSES (Rosebud Sioux)

Her Many Horses is Managing Director of Native American Banking at Wells Fargo and Company, the leading provider of capital and financial services to the Native American and Alaska Native market.

Dawson’s career spans commercial and investment banking with a focus on Native American gaming and tribal economic development. He began his career in 2004 at Merrill Lynch, where he worked as an investment banking analyst and Director of Native American Business Development. In 2008, he left finance to go to business school, and he rejoined Bank of America Merrill Lynch after receiving his M.B.A. degree in 2010. Dawson joined Wells Fargo in 2018, and he was promoted to Head of Native American Banking in 2021. He is one of a handful of Native Americans to work in banking, and he’s used his position to elevate issues impacting tribal communities within the financial community and among policymakers..

DR. SUSAN KAROL (Tuscarora)

Dr. Karol is the Chief Medical Officer for the Division of Tribal Affairs (DTA) in the Center of Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CMCS) at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).

DTA serves as the point of contact on American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) health policy and serves the CMS Tribal Technical Advisory Group (TTAG) regarding AI/AN issues for the agency.

Dr. Karol is an enrolled member of the Tuscarora Indian Nation, the first American Indian woman general surgeon and former National Chief Medical Officer for the Indian Health Service (2008-2017). Karol is a Captain in the United States Public Health Service deploying throughout the country to meet national healthcare needs such as hurricane recovery, border patrol health needs, migrant care, and COVID-19 missions. She graduated from Dartmouth College and the Medical College of Wisconsin prior to her general surgical training at the University of Massachusetts. She is a Diplomat of the American Board of Surgery
(DABS), Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) and a member of the Association of American Indian Physicians.
Dr. Karol is the Chairperson of the CMS American Indian and Alaska Native Employee Resource Group and is a member of the CMS Diversity, Inclusion and Equality Council. She is the Federal Co-Chairperson for the CMS TTAG Health Equity, Data and Behavioral Health Subcommittees. CAPT Karol prioritizes improving the health care and wellness of American Indians and Alaska Natives.

CASEY LOZAR (Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes)

Lozar is a Vice President at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and Director of the Center for Indian Country Development (CICD), “a research and policy institute that works to advance the economic self-determination and prosperity of Native nations and Indigenous communities.”

Lozar received a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College, a master’s degree in education from Harvard, and an MBA from the University of Colorado-Denver.

DANIELLE J. MAYBERRY (Western Shoshone)

Mayberry is the Principal Law Clerk at the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribal Court located in Akwesasne, New York.

She has published articles discussing the Indian Child Welfare Act, Western Shoshone sacred sites and the application of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and an article discussing access to justice tools within tribal judiciaries. She was selected to be part of the Native Nations Institute 2021 Tribal Professionals Cohort. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science and History from Jamestown College in 2013 and her law degree from the University of Idaho College of Law with an emphasis in Native American law in 2016. She was appointed to serve as a trial level judge for the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone in 2021. She also serves on the National American Indian Court Judges Association Board of Directors and has spoken at national conferences and trainings. Danielle is an enrolled member of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone.

HILARY TOMPKINS (Diné)

Tompkins (Diné) is a partner in the Global Regulatory group at Hogan Lovells and former Solicitor for the US Department of the Interior. She is well-versed in Indian gaming, treaty rights, tribal trust land, water rights, and tribal sovereign immunity and has experience advancing economic development projects in Indian Country.

As Solicitor for the U.S. Department of the Interior, she led the Cobell tribal trust litigation settlement, developed legal reforms following Deepwater Horizon, successfully defended the first renewables on public lands, and resolved complex disputes under various statutes including the Endangered Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and the National Historic Preservation Act.

Tompkins began her legal career as an honors program trial attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. She has also served as chief legal counsel to former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson and a special assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of New York.

Tompkins is an Alumni Trustee for Dartmouth College, a member of Environmental Law Institute’s board of directors, The National Judicial College’s Tribal Advisory Board, National Tribal Air Association’s Policy Advisory Committee, and a Fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers. In addition to her Stanford degree, Tompkins has a bachelor’s degree and honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Dartmouth College.

ALVIN WARREN (Pueblo of Santa Clara)

Warren is the Vice President of Career Pathways and Advocacy for the LANL Foundation in New Mexico. He has served ten terms as an elected and appointed leader for his Pueblo, including two terms as Lt. Governor.

He is the second person to serve as cabinet secretary of Indian Affairs for the State of New Mexico. He has also served as executive vice president and principal of Blue Stone Strategy Group, a program officer for the global W.K. Kellogg Foundation and director of the Trust for Public Lands’ national Tribal Lands Program. During his career Alvin has helped: tribes across the United States regain and protect traditional lands; ensure over $200 million in state dollars flowed to tribes to build essential infrastructure; enact state legislation establishing a framework for collaborative state-tribal governmental relations; support tribal immersion and dual language schools and positively transform public narratives about Indigenous peoples. Warren holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and master’s degree in Public Administration from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.