Council of Leadership
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Olivia ChilcoteDr. Chilcote (Luiseño/Payómkawichum, San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians) is currently an Associate Professor of American Indian Studies at San Diego State University. Her research and teaching focus on the areas of interdisciplinary American Indian Studies, California Indian Studies, federal Indian policy, American Indian identity, and Indigenous feminisms. In 2021, Diverse: Issues in Higher Education nationally recognized Professor Chilcote as an "Emerging Scholar" for her community-based research and promise to make impactful changes to the professoriate. Professor Chilcote is the author of Unrecognized in California: Federal Acknowledgment and the San Luis Rey Band of Mission Indians (University of Washington Press, 2024).
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Stephanie LumsdenDr. Lumsden (Hupa) is a feminist scholar and teacher. She received her B.A. in Women's Studies from Portland State University in 2011 and her M.A. in Native American Studies from the University of California, Davis in 2014. She earned her second M.A. in Gender Studies from UCLA in 2018. In 2020 she was awarded the Ford Dissertation Fellowship. Stephanie earned her PhD in Gender Studies from UCLA in 2023. She is currently a University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellow in the History department at UC Santa Cruz. Stephanie will be joining the Native American studies department at UC Davis as an Assistant Professor in fall 2025.
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Bayley J. MarquezDr. Marquez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of American Studies, an affiliate faculty with the Harriet Tubman Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and the Consortium for Race Gender and Ethnicity, and an Indigenous scholar from the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians. Her research interests include settler colonial theory, Indigenous education, Black education, the history of education, abolitionist university studies, and critical ethnic studies. Her academic work is positioned at the intersection of settlement, antiblackness, imperialism and other instantiations of racialized and colonial power. She is the author of, Plantation Pedagogy: The Violence of Schooling Across Black and Indigenous Space (UC Press).
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Brittani OronaDr. Orona is currently a UC President's and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at UC Santa Cruz. Prior to joining the UC system, she was an Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies at San Diego State University. Orona's research and teaching focus on California Indian history and human rights, Indigenous science and technology studies, environmental studies, public humanities, and visual sovereignty. Orona earned her Ph.D. in Native American Studies with a Designated Emphasis in Human Rights from University of California, Davis, an M.A. in Native American Studies from UC Davis, an M.A. in Public History from Sacramento State University, and her B.A. in History from Cal Poly Humboldt.
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Kathleen C. WhiteleyDr. Whiteley (Wiyot descent) is an assistant professor in the Department of Native American Studies at UC Davis. She was born and raised in Eureka, California, and is a descendant of the Wiyot Tribe. Prof. Whiteley’s research focuses on Native American history in California from the nineteenth century to the present, with particular emphasis on the social, legal, and gendered dimensions of Indigenous North America. Prof. Whiteley’s current book manuscript, Justice in the Balance: The Indians of California versus The United States of America, 1900- 1955, is the first work to trace the history of the land claims cases brought by the Native peoples of California against the U.S. federal government.
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Active members of the General Assembly can self-nominate to serve on the primary leadership council of CISSA, which consists of three (3) seats reserved for active members who have been affiliated with the organization for 3-4 years and two (2) seats available as “at-large” seats that can be filled by any active member of CISSA. Together, with the assistance of the committees and branches, these volunteer officials oversee the interests of the association.
The duties of the Leadership Council, include:
The duties of the Leadership Council, include:
- Serve a three (3) year term.
- The Leadership Council is responsible for advocating on behalf of the organization, empowering California Indian voices and scholarship, and representing the interests of the organization through outreach, policy, and events.
- Organize two (2) all membership meetings; one meeting will be held in the Fall and one additional meeting held in the spring. Support the planning and implementation of a yearly CISSA conference.
- Provide a semi-annual report to the General Assembly at each of the General Assembly meetings.
- Complete a yearly newsletter or report.
- Leadership Council members will also serve as part of at least one Branch or Commitment. Leadership Council members can serve on more than one Branch or Commitment so long as there are no more than two Leadership Council members on any particular branch of commitment. At least one council member should be present at all branch/commitment meetings.
- Actively participate in the recruitment and mentorship of new members.
- Report to the membership regarding the functioning of the organization and collaborate with the General Assembly on organizational priorities.
- Gather consensus on policy and program implementation with the General Assembly either through General Assembly meetings or through polling and outreach.
- Administrative duties, which include but not limited to: Collaborating with the fundraising and development branch to manage funding streams, field emails, respond to requests on behalf of the organization, oversee organization management, process and create an expenditure report and identify fiscal year.
