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November 23, 2024
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Attend the National Indian Board Members Conference!

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
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JT Shining Oneside shared stories about her Ojibwe and Anishinaabe inheritance during the Native American Heritage Month Celebration on Nov. 15. She spoke about the coming-of-age and traditional birth ceremonies. (Photo credit/ Adrianna Adame)

Join Falmouth for the 2010 National Indian Board Members Conference at the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, NV. Three general sessions and six unique and exciting workshops will provide you with important legal updates, new skills and valuable networking opportunities.

Our conference presenters this year are Richard Phelps, Tal Moore, and Rick McGee, experts with years of experience in Indian Country. With these presenters, you’ll explore strategies for managing conflict, meetings best practices, shielding yourself from potential board liability, the latest technologies available to boards and councils to increase visibility and levels of interactivity, using performance measures, and how to read and understand an audit report.
Three general session presentations will cover timely issues facing boards/councils today, including finance, human resources, the Health Care Reform Act and more.
This dynamic conference is for both experienced and new board and council members. Don’t miss this important annual Indian Country event. Register today!
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Jodi Rave Spotted Bear
jodi@imfreedomalliance.org https://twitter.com/JodiRave

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear is the founder and director of the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance, a 501-C-3 nonprofit organization with offices in Bismarck, N.D. and the Fort Berthold Reservation. Jodi spent 15 years reporting for the mainstream press. She's been awarded prestigious Nieman and John S. Knight journalism fellowships at Harvard and Stanford, respectively. She also an MIT Knight Science Journalism Project fellow. Her writing is featured in "The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity," published by Columbia University Press. Jodi currently serves as a Society of Professional Journalists at-large board member, an SPJ Foundation board member, and she chairs the SPJ Freedom of Information Committee. Jodi has won top journalism awards from mainstream and Native press organizations. She earned her journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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