The IREES Tribal and Indigenous Advisory Board was established to provide insights and recommendations on environmental and energy issues affecting Tribal Nations, their citizens, and indigenous people more broadly. As we work to build the capacity to anticipate, manage, and drive change for a more sustainable, inclusive and prosperous future, we believe guidance from and planning with those with Tribal identity as well as scholarship and practice in the history, challenges, culture and policies of those communities, is essential.
Associate Vice President, Tribal Relations; Director, Native Nations Center; Member of the Crow Tribe of Montana, and a Sioux, Ponca, and Chickasaw descendent
Email: tana.fitzpatrick@ou.edu
Director, Planning and Economic Development for the Citizen Potawatomi Nation; Co-founder and Chair of the Tribal-Municipal Dialogue; Professor, Christopher C. Gibbs College of Architecture
Email: James.C.Collard-1@ou.edu
Managing Director, Latin America Sustainability Initiative (LASI); Affiliate Faculty, Department of History; Quechua Native from Peru
Email: vmaqque@ou.edu
Professor of Law; Citizen of the Chickasaw Nation; nationally recognized scholar in the field of Federal Indian Law. Academic scholarship focused on the fields of Federal Indian Law, water rights, Constitutional Law, and statutory interpretation.
Email: alex.pearl@ou.edu
