A Team With A Common Vision
Interim Head of School
Christopher G Bordeaux
Christopher Bordeaux is stepping in as Interim Head for the 2022-2022 academic school year. Chris Bordeaux joined the support of the Pine Ridge Girls’ School as a founding board member in 2016 and early thought leader shaping the mission back in 2013. He and his wife Deborah Witt have both been invaluable educators with decades of experience between the two of them in K-12 education. Chris is an enrolled member of the Sicangu Lakota, Rosebud Sioux Tribe. He earned his B.S in Elementary Education from Black Hills State College and his M.A. in Educational Administration from Oglala Lakota College. He’s been a teacher, a principal, served on several school boards, and successfully led the creation of Gifted and Talented Programs in two schools. Most recently, as the Executive Director of the Oceti Sakowin Education Consortium, he worked closely with Language staff to create an Oral Language Proficiency Assessment. Today, in addition to his work with the Pine Ridge Girls School, he continues consulting with several Tribal Schools and Tribes to strengthen their education programs for native youth.
Our Founders
Our Board
Our Board includes recognized educators from across the nation working together with notable civic leaders of the Lakota Nation towards a common vision.
OFFICERS:
Victoria Shorr, President
Carole Goldberg, Vice President
Caitlin Dempsey, Secretary
Jack Zeller, CPA, Treasurer
Dorothy Alther
(Oglala Lakota)
Executive Director, California Indian Legal Services
Jackie Blackbird
(Gros-Ventre/Assiniboine)
Nike Global Diversity & Inclusion Program Manager
Prairie Bighorn-Blount
(Fort Peck Sioux)
Executive Director, American Indian Business Leaders
Christopher Bordeaux
(Sicangu Lakota)
Executive Director, Oceti Sakowin Education Consortium
Megan Callaway
Co-founder, The Archer School for Girls
Paul Cummins
Founder, Crossroads School for Arts and Sciences, & New Roads School
Vikki Eagle Bear
(Sicangu Lakota)
Principal, He Dog School, Parmelee, South Dakota
Mark Eisenbraun
Founding Partner Walker and Eisenbraun Law Firm
Ethleen Iron Cloud-Two Dogs
(Oglala Lakota)
Educator/Visionary
Laurel Iron Cloud
(Oglala Lakota)
Division Chief, Tribal Government Services, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Indian Services, Washington, D.C.
Sarah Deer
(Muscogee Creek Nation)
Professor, University of Kansas, Dept. of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies & School of Public Affairs and Administration
Shirley Murphy
(Oglala Lakota)
Navy Veteran, Cultural Psychologist
Sid Perkins
Managing Partner & Founder, Ion Energy Group
Susan Saltz
Community Activist, and documentary filmmaker
Jennifer Spotted Bear
(Oglala Lakota)
Secretary/Supervisor, Oglala Sioux Tribal Council
Jim Welch
Founder/CEO, Bella Energy, Inc.
Our Council
Jodi Gillette
(Hunkpapa and Oglala Lakota)
Policy Advisor,
Government Relations Sonosky, Chambers. Former Special Assistant to the President for Native American Affairs in the White House Domestic Policy Council.
Gail Bruce
Founding Board Member of The American Indian College Fund & Founder of the Cultural Learning Centers Initiative for the American Indian Higher Education Consortium.
Cheryl Crazy Bull
(Oglala Lakota)
President, American Indian College Fund
Cecelia Firethunder
(Oglala Lakota)
Co-founder of the Oglala Lakota Women's Society
Lynn Dee Rapp
(Oglala Lakota)
Board member, The American Indian College Fund
Chris Griffiths
Community Activist
Jennifer Kim Zeller
Lawyer, specializing in real estate law