Indigenous Student Seminar
2022 Seminar Faculty
The Hoover Indigenous Student Seminar offers top college students and recent graduates an opportunity to engage with scholars and policy practitioners on the campus of Stanford University.
Attendees of the week-long, fully funded program participate in focused seminars led by scholars and policy practitioners who focus on issues affecting indigenous communities in the United States and elsewhere.
Please see below to reference confirmed faculty for the 2022 Indigenous Student Seminar. We will update the faculty bios as we confirm our speaker lineup.
Terry Anderson
Terry L. Anderson has been a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution since 1998 and is currently the John and Jean De Nault Senior Fellow. He is the author or editor of 41 books including Unlocking the Wealth of Indian Nations (2016) and Renewing Indigenous Economies (forthcoming in June 2022).
Adam Crepelle, United Houma Nation
Adam Crepelle is a Campbell Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. He is an Assistant Professor of Law at George Mason University’s Antonin Scalia Law School and the Director of the Law & Economics Center’s Tribal Law & Economics Program.
Donn Feir
Donn Feir is a Campbell Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Dr. Feir is an Associate Professor at the University of Victoria and has published on reconciliation and the impact of historic policies on Indigenous economies and people.
Deanna Kennedy, Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma
Deanna Kennedy is an Associate Dean, Academic Programs and Associate Professor in the School of Business at the University of Washington Bothell. Kennedy edited American Indian Business: Principles and Practices (2017).
Michael LeBourdais, Whispering Pines Clinton Indian Band
Michael LeBourdais is Chairman of the Tulo Centre of Indigenous Economics, Chairperson of the Western Indigenous Pipeline Group, a Director of Cayoose Creek Developments, and former Chief of the Whispering Pines Clinton Indian Band.
André Le Dressay
Dr. André Le Dressay has over 25 years of experience working with indigenous communities, organizations, and institutions and local governments. He is the Director of Fiscal Realities Economists, the Director of the Tulo Centre of Indigenous Economics, and a professor at Thompson Rivers University.
Robert Miller, Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma
Robert Miller is Professor of Law at Arizona State University, the author of Reservation Capitalism: Economic Development in Indian Country, and co-author of Creating Private Sector Economies in Native America: Sustainable Development through Entrepreneurship.
Richard Monette, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa
Richard Monette directs the Great Lakes Indian Law Center at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Monette is a former chairman and CEO of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and a past president of the National Native American Bar Association
Dominic Parker
Dominic Parker is the Ilene and Morton Harris Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution, where he joins Hoover Senior Fellow Terry Anderson in directing the Hoover Project on Renewing Indigenous Economies. Parker is an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Elizabeth Reese, Nambé Pueblo
Elizabeth A. Reese, Yunpoví (Tewa: Willow Flower) is an Assistant Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. Her scholarship examines the way government structures, citizen identity, and the history that is taught in schools, can impact the rights and powers of oppressed racial minorities within American law.
Matthew Snipp, Oklahoma Cherokee/Choctaw
C. Matthew Snipp is the Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Humanities and Sciences in the Department of Sociology at Stanford University. Snipp is the author or co-editor of three books: Research in Human Capital and Development: American Indian Economic Development, American Indians: The First of the Land, and Public Policy Impacts on American Indian Economic Development.
Daniel Stewart, Spokane Tribe of Indians
Daniel Stewart is Professor of Entrepreneurship & Director of the Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program at Gonzaga University. Stewart has co-edited two of the leading volumes in Native American business and economics, American Indian Business (2017) and Creating Private Sector Economies in Native America (2019).
Mark Trahant, Shoshone-Bannock
Mark Trahant is Indian Country Today’s Editor-at-Large. Trahant is an award-winning journalist who has covered American Indian and Alaska Native issues for more than three decades. He currently leads the Indigenous Economics Project, a comprehensive look at Indigenous economics, including market-based initiatives.
Eric Wakin
Eric Wakin is the deputy director of the Hoover Institution and the director of the Hoover’s library and archives, overseeing their strategic direction and operations.
Derrick Watchman, Navajo
Derrick Watchman chairs the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development. He is a financial expert and has worked in Indian country on gaming, banking, energy, economic development, and tribal affairs.
Bart Wilson
Bart Wilson directs the Smith Institute for Political Economy and Philosophy at Chapman University. He is the author of The Property Species: Mine, Yours, and the Human Mind, published by Oxford University Press, and co-author of Humanomics: Moral Sentiments and the Wealth of Nations for the Twenty-First Century, published by Cambridge University Press.
