GUIDANCE

CHAIRWOMAN

Heather Gurko has a BA in Management and Organizational Leadership at George Fox University. She is currently pursuing her MA in Indigenous Education at Arizona State University. Enrolled Citizen of the Central Council Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska.

CO-VICE CHAIR

Jackie Semallie, Navajo, works in Early Childhood Education and is a Cultural Keeper for Apple Gate HeadStart.

CO-SKIPPER and CO-VICE CHAIR

Justin Dauphinais a proud father of three daughters and one son and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Tribe in North Dakota. Justin grew up on several reservations when young in the Midwest, southwest, and northwest. Justin has a strong sense of his Anishinaabe/Ojibwe/Chippewa culture and traditions that have been passed on to him by his father and many other elders.

SECRERTARY

Adrienne Moat works with cultural youth organizations working in ITECK.

TREASURER

Nat Andreini serves as PANCF Board Treasurer and has been involved with the community since the 2022 Canoe Awakening. Nat specializes in supporting and advocating for nonprofits and community organizations as a licensed Oregon Real Estate Broker and consultant. In prior roles, he worked extensively in Slovenia, Japan, New York City. Nat is of Omàmiwinini descent with ancestral ties to the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe in Minnesota and the Odanak community in Quebec. Nat is also Italian, Azorean, French, Swedish, and Irish.

MEMBER

Clifton Bruno has worked with schools, youth and family programs for over 25 years. Sharing Indigenous culture, art, history, ethnobotany, games, first foods and lifeways. Bruno provides Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), for many educational projects in the Portland Metro Area; with professional consultation and on site education. He frequently works with the Native Gathering Garden at Thomas Cully Park and the Confluence Project. In 2003 the Bruno co founded the Native American Parent Support in Portland, Oregon and then the National Indian Parent Information Center. Both provided training and information to those parenting Native American special needs children. Bruno is a Trainer of Positive Indian Parenting (National Indian Child Welfare Association), Expanding the Circle: Youth Transitioning (University of Minnesota), and Indigenous Games. Clifton is a Wasco Tribal member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. A cultural keeper, Traditional Salmon Baker, and Men's Talking Circle Facilitator.

AT LARGE BOARD MEMBER

Jill Shepard Erickson is an enrolled member of the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska, and of the Chugach Native's Association of Alaska. She has earned BS and MSW degrees from Portland State University in Portland Oregon. She retired from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in 2006. The administration of the Circles of Care grants for tribes, urban Indian programs and tribal colleges and universities to engage community members in designing and evaluating a culturally respectful system of care for children, youth, and families was a primary responsibility at SAMHSA. She previously worked for Indian Health Service from 1983 to 1997 in administrative and direct service positions in Rosebud SD, Albuquerque NM, Pendleton OR, and Phoenix AZ. She currently serves as an At Large Board Member of the Portland All Nations Canoe Family.