#NACA 2017
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Speaker Biographies
Santiago Almaraz Almaraz is an enrolled member of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, is the acting director for the Office of Management Services for the Indian Health Service. The IHS, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services, is the principal federal health care advocate and provider
Hallie Bissett Hallie Bissett has been the ANVCA Executive Director for 4 years. She brings over 20 years of business experience to ANVCA. Bissett holds a Bachelor’s degree in Global Logistics Management and an MBA from the University of Alaska. She has held many executive roles throughout her
for American Indians and Alaska Natives. As acting director of OMS, Almaraz provides senior leadership and advisory services to the IHS principal deputy director and senior management staff in the areas of grants, acquisitions, management policy, and regulatory affairs. He ensures that Agency policies for OMS functions are consistent with applicable regulations, directives, and guidance from HHS and other federal oversight agencies. He provides leadership for continuous improvement of management accountability and administrative systems for effective and efficient program support services IHS-wide. Allison Binney
career, including: Vice President of Business Development and Old Harbor Native Corporation, Team Leader of Procurement and Supply Chain Management and Supplier Diversity at BP Exploration, and Logistics and International Trade Director at the Anchorage Economic Development Corporation. In addition, Bissett was the youngest person yet to be elected to the Cook Inlet Region Inc. (CIRI) one of Alaska’s 12 Regional Corporations created under ANCSA, a position she has held for over 10 years. Bissett has been honored as one of Alaska’s Top 40 Under Forty, University of Alaska College of Business Alumni of the Year, and NCAIED National Top forty under 40.
Sheri Buretta Sheri was born in Anchorage, Alaska, her family is from the village of Tatitlek, Alaska located in Prince William Sound. Sheri graduated from the University of Alaska with an Accounting degree and Gulf Coast Community College in Floridawith a Business degree. Sheri and her husband Gary have two beautiful children, Anastasia, and Bo. Sharice Davids Davids is a Representative from Kansas; born in Frankfurt, Germany, on May 22, 1980; an enrolled member of the Ho-Chunk Nation; graduated from Leavenworth High School, Leavenworth, Kans., 1998; attended Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, Kans.; attended University of Kansas, Lawrence,
Allison Binney is a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP, where she advises clients regarding American Indian law and policy. She returned to Akin Gump in 2011 after serving as staff director and chief counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee
on Indian Affairs from late 2007 to early 2011. She served as general counsel to the committee from 2005 to late 2007. Before originally joining Akin Gump, Ms. Binney served as an associate at a boutique law firm specializing in American Indian law, as the program coordinator for the Indian Legal Program at Arizona State University College of Law and as a law clerk for the Native American Rights Fund in Washington, DC, where she assisted with trial 1.0 in the Cobell class-action lawsuit. Ms. Binney is a member of the Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians in California. She received her J.D. and Indian Law certificate in 2000 from the Arizona State University College of Law and her B.A. in political science with a minor in Native American studies from the California State University, Chico. She is a past president of the Native American Bar Association of Washington, DC.
Kans.; A.A., Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kans., 2003; B.A., University of Missouri, Kansas City, Mo., 2007; J.D., Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 2010; lawyer; business owner; non-profit executive; professional athlete; White House Fellow, 2016-2017; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Sixteenth and to the succeeding Congress (January 3, 2019-present).
NACA 2017
PG 12
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