Kristen A. Carpenter: Professor Kristen Carpenter is Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Research at the University of Colorado Law School. At Colorado Law, Professor Carpenter teaches courses in Property, Cultural Property, American Indian Law, and Indigenous Peoples in International Law. Professor Carpenter has been awarded the Provost’s Award for Faculty Achievement and the Outstanding New Faculty Award. She served as a director of the American Indian Law Program from 2012-2014 and as Associate Dean for Faculty Development from 2011-2013. Professor Carpenter previously served on the board of the Federal Bar Association’s Indian Law Section and Colorado Indian Bar Association. Professor Carpenter is also active in pro bono work on American Indian cultural and religious freedoms.
Ned Blackhawk: Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) is a Professor of History and American Studies at Yale and was on the faculty from 1999 to 2009 at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. A graduate of McGill University, he holds graduate degrees in History from UCLA and the University of Washington and is the author of Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the early American West (Harvard, 2006), a study of the American Great Basin that garnered half a dozen professional prizes, including the Frederick Jackson Turner Prize from the Organization of American Historians. In addition to serving in professional associations and on the editorial boards of American Quarterly and Ethnohistory, Professor Blackhawk has led the establishment of two fellowships, one for American Indian Students to attend the Western History Association’s annual conference, the other for doctoral students working on American Indian Studies dissertations at Yale named after Henry Roe Cloud (Winnebago, Class of 1910).
John Dosset: John Dossett serves as General Counsel of the National Congress of American Indians. He holds a J.D. from Lewis and Clark University and a B.A. from Trinity University.
Matthew Fletcher: Professor Matthew Fletcher is Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law and Director of the Indigenous Law and Policy Center. He is the Reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement, Third, The Law of American Indians. Professor Fletcher sits as the Chief Justice of the Poarch Band of Creek Indians Supreme Court and also sits as an appellate judge for the Grand Traverse Band, the Hoopa Valley Tribe, the Lower Elwha Tribe, the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of Potawatomi Indians, the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, and the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska. With David Getches, Charles Wilkinson, and Robert Williams, Professor Fletcher co-authored the sixth edition of Cases and Materials on Federal Indian Law (Thomson West 2011). Professor Fletcher is the primary editor and author of a leading law blog on American Indian law and policy, Turtle Talk.
Richard A. Guest: Richard Guest is a staff Attorney for the Native American Rights Fund. Prior to joining the Native American Rights Fund, Guest was a Senior Associate with Troutman Sanders LLP in their Indian law practice, focusing on environmental issues, energy projects, economic development, financial institutions and telecommunications services in Indian country. Prior to going to Washington, D.C., he served as the on-reservation tribal attorney for the Skokomish Indian Tribe and worked as an associate attorney at Morisset, Schlosser, Jozwiak and McGaw in Seattle, Washington.
Justin B. Richland: Professor Justin Richland is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College at the University of Chicago. From 2005-2009, he served as Justice Pro Tempore of the Hopi Appellate Court, the highest court of the Hopi Nation. Professor Richland is founding Chairman of the Board of The Nakwatsvewat Institute, Inc. a non-profit organization offering social justice services to Native nations in the US. He currently serves as Co-Editor of PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, the journal of the Association of Political and Legal Anthropologists.
Angela Riley: Professor Angela Riley is Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law and Director of the UCLA American Indian Studies Center. She is also the Director of UCLA’s J.D./M.A. joint degree program in Law and American Indian Studies. Professor Riley is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma and serves as Co-Chair for the United Nations – Indigenous Peoples’ Partnership Policy Board.
Wenona T. Singel: Professor Wenona Singel is an Associate Professor of Law at Michigan State University College of Law and the Associate Director of the Indigenous Law & Policy Center. Professor Singel serves as the Chief Appellate Justice for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians and formerly served as the Chief Appellate Judge for the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. From 2006-2009, she served as President and Board Member of the Michigan Indian Judicial Association. On March 29, 2012, the United States Senate passed by unanimous consent President Barack Obama’s nomination of Singel to serve as a member of the Advisory Board of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation. Professor Singel is also an elected member of the American Law Institute, where she is the Co-Reporter.