Leadership

Advisory Board

Ron Andrade

Executive director of the Los Angeles City/County American Indian Commission and former executive director of the National Congress of American Indians. Mr. Andrade serves as a key liaison with the network of American Indian national and regional consortia and economic development organizations.


Lynn Rapp

Lynn Rapp is a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, and has over 26 years of financial services experience.  She currently serves as the Managing Director of SeaCrest Investment Management, LLC.  Before holding this position, Ms. Rapp served as Chairperson for the National Congress of American Indians Finance and Investment Committee, and on the Board of Directors at the National Center of American Indian Enterprise Development.  She is a member of the National Congress of American Indians, and a Senior Vice President registered Wealth Advisor with Morgan Stanley Global Wealth Management.  She has been recognized by Morgan Stanley as a top performing financial advisor.  


Ricard Ohrstrom, Jr.,

The Ohrstrom Family Foundation. A nationally recognized philanthropist, Mr. Ohrstrom sits on the boards of several foundations and corporations. He is the chairman and founding member of the Committee on Outcome-Based Benefits (COBB) – an organization that seeks to improve the cost efficiency and cost-effectiveness of substance abuse treatment.

 

Dr. Susan Tave Zelman

Dr. Zelman is president of the Zelman Education Consulting Group.  Previously, she served as senior VP for education and children’s programming at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and was the Superintendent of Public Instruction in Ohio for ten years, leading Ohio from 29th to fifth in the 2009 Education Week Quality Counts Report.  Under her leadership, average student test scores increased, earning Ohio the Goldman Sachs Foundation Prize for Excellence in International Education.  Dr. Zelman has held executive posts at the Missouri and Massachusetts Departments of Education and chaired the Department of Education at Emmanuel College in Boston.  Dr. Zelman holds a PhD in education from the University of Michigan.