AICRC | Board of Directors

American Indian Child Resource Center

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Mary Ann Greycloud , M.P.H., Founding Board Member non voting (Sisseton Sioux) - Registered Nurse
Ms. Greycloud was a founding Board Member of the Urban Indian Child Resource Center (now AICRC), involved since its inception in 1974. She has served as every position as an Officer of the board at one time or another over the years. She is a retired RN who formerly worked at the San Francisco Children’s Hospital, Pediatric Unit. Ms. Greycloud’s involvement in the community includes affiliations with the California Urban Indian Health Board, the Native American Health Clinic in San Francisco, the California Board of Registered Nurses Consumer Affairs in Sacramento, and Calvary Presbyterian Church in San Francisco as Ruling Elder.

Sandra La Framboise , BA Music, B. Ed., Chair Person (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) - Retired Teacher
Ms. La Framboise taught in Washington and California elementary schools since 1962. She was involved in the Mt. Diablo Education Association’s Bargaining Team and served as President. Her involvement in the California Teachers Association includes membership in the State Council of Education, Mt. Diablo Delegate, Migrant Education Task Force, Minority Affairs Committee, Urban Training Conference Presenter, Association for Better Citizenship Committee, and Representative to the National Indian Education Association Conference. She has been involved in the National Education Association as a delegate and has been a member of the American Indian/Alaskan Native Caucus as well as the Congressional Contact Team. Ms. La Framboise has many years of training experience through the CTA/NEA and served as AICRC’s Board Chairperson in 1996, 1997 and present.

Cristina Rodríguez de La Mar , PhD (abd), Board Member
(Chiricahua Apache/Raramuri) - Former Executive Director of the Civic Engagement Project for Children & Families
As the Executive Director of the Civic Engagement Project for Children & Families, Ms. Rodríguez de La Mar is working with California State Children & Families Commissions across the state to steer public funds into public policy benefiting children and families. Previously she was the Executive Director of Indigenous Nations: Child & Family Agency (DBA), Bay Area American Indian Council-Inc., managing comprehensive social services for urban and tribal American Indian families and children. Over the past 18 years she has worked with local, national and international social-change organizations and extensively with American Indian, Native Pacific Islander, and Chicano/Latino communities. Her consulting, training and work-experience includes: organizational and community-based development and capacity-building; university teaching; conflict resolution, teambuilding and facilitation in communities, schools (k-12), tribes, prisons, and for agencies. She works extensively in culturally-based Prevention/Intervention models and practices, and has in-depth experience designing and managing a wide array of culturally-based youth and family public policy, social service, health, and educational agencies and programs. These include community, family and youth violence prevention; addiction and substance abuse prevention and intervention; and designing working "alternatives" to incarceration.

Heather Zenone , JD, Secretary/Treasurer
(Cherokee)
Heather graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a B.A. in Rhetoric and a JD from Boalt Hall School of Law. Her concentration were anti-discrimination law and higher education equity. She is currently the Graduate Outreach Officer at the University of California, Berkeley. Heather was in the California foster care system throughout high school.

Lori Taguma , Board Member
(Lac Courte Oreilles)
A 1999 American Studies graduate from the University of California, Berkeley. Lori’s thesis was on the transformation of Native American film icons and semiotics. Lori teaches sailing and windsurfing at a non-profit in Berkeley and is also a City of Berkeley Art Commissioner. Lori’s background includes managing small business, being an Education Specialists as well as a substitute teacher, working as a social worker and writing for arts and media publications. She has also been an AIDS peer counselor at the University of California, Berkeley.

Board meetings are held the 2nd Saturday of every other month begining in January 2006 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm @ The American Indian Child Resource Center