GUIDANCE

Making space to honor our Elders who have guided us through our lives and the PANCF organization.

Meet the Team

Renea Perry

Renea Perry

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Renea Perry, Tlingit/Inupiat/North European is of the Raven moiety and Frog clan of Kiks.ádi house (Shattered Glass Herring House) of Sitka, Alaska. She is also principal owner of Blue Lotus Creative Communications, LLC as research, writing, and education consultant for Indigenous Equity. She has 30+ years of project management experience across disciplines which include fashion merchandising, publishing, architecture & design, and hospitality & wellness. Renea is an alumna of the Indigenous Nations Studies program at Portland State University (Bachelor of Science 2019). She is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Art in Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies (WGSS) at Oregon State University with expected graduation in December 2023. Her connections to the Portland Native community are as an advocate and committee member of the Native American Community Advisory Committee, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women/Relatives PDX, Community Gathering for Community Initiative, and as Counsel for the local Alaska Native Brotherhood/Sisterhood, a 109 year old Indigenous Civil Rights organization.

Stephanie R. S. Ironheart

CULTURE PROGRAMING COORDINATOR

Stephanie is a enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. She is a wife and mother of three children. She has spent most of her career working with Tribal people by supporting programming and acquiring grants to support community growth in a positive and traditional way. She has worked with indigenous communities and non-profit organizations for the past 10 years, in the State of Washington. She graduated with her Associates of Science from Northwest Indian College in 2020.

Our Board Members

  • Heather Gurko

    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.

  • Jackie Semallie

    CO-VICE CHAIR

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

  • Justin Dauphinais

    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. Mr. Dauphinais has been involved with and participated in various Native American clubs, organization, and non-profit groups throughout his life. Justin Dauphinais is a Senior Consultant at ERM and offers over 20 years of experience as an environmental geologist and safety professional.

  • Adrienne Moat

    SECRERTARY

    Adrienne Moat works with cultural youth organizations working in ITECK.

  • Nathanael Andreini

    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, and Portland in nonprofits and schools through a variety of ways; from fundraising and finances to art education and teaching. 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.

  • Clifton Bruno

    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 environmental and 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.

  • Jill Shepard Erickson

    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, having worked for SAMHSA from 1997 to 2006 as a project officer for tribal and western state grants to transform community-based systems of care for children's mental health. 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.

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