International Funders for Indigenous Peoples
PO Box 1040
Akwesasne, NY 13655
Tel: 315-842-0792
Fax: 315-764-1903
President
Theresa Fay-Bustillos
Executive Director of Levi Strauss Foundation and
Vice President, Worldwide Community Affairs, Levi Strauss & Co.
www.levistrauss.com/responsibility/foundation/
Ms. Fay-Bustillos has been the Executive Director of the Levi Strauss Foundation and Vice President of Worldwide Community Affairs for Levi Strauss & Company since May 30, 2000. She is responsible for leading the company's corporate social responsibility, philanthropic and employee community involvement activities globally. Ms. Fay-Bustillos previously worked as a trial attorney with a focus on labor and employment law, voting rights, education and immigrants' rights issues. She also served as an Administrative Law Judge and taught at the University of Southern California Law School. She is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley (1975) and the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law (1980) and currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA).
Vice President
Ken Wilson, PHD
Executive Director of The Christensen Fund
www.christensenfund.org
Ken Wilson has served as Executive Director of The Christensen Fund since August 2002. Born in Malawi with a life spread rather across the world, Dr. Wilson studied zoology at the University of Oxford and anthropology at University College London where his doctorate focused on indigenous knowledge, health and human ecology in the agro-pastoral arid savannahs and woodlands of Southern Zimbabwe. During those years as an ethno-biologist he was particularly interested in linking participatory research on ecological histories with community-based landscape management. He then took a Research Officer position at the University of Oxford in the Refugee Studies Programme. During four years of field studies of war, famine, persecution and refugee movements he became increasingly interested in history, in traditionalist socio-cultural movements and resilience. Then followed nine years with the Ford Foundation. During seven years as Program Officer for Mozambique in their Office for Eastern and Southern Africa he focused on supporting Mozambican efforts to strengthen their higher education system, secure their artistic and cultural heritage, and launch environment and development efforts rooted in indigenous culture and participatory management (including ecotourism). Subsequently he came to New York as the deputy to the Vice President of the Education, Media, Arts and Culture Program, supporting Ford's effort worldwide to become a "learning organization". During his term in New York he gave particular attention to such issues as threats to indigenous languages and sacred landscapes in the USA and worldwide, strategies for educational reform, the implications of new media technologies, and the links between contemporary and traditional artistic and cultural expression. Dr. Wilson has personal interests in wilderness, photography, poetry and music; has published widely academically; and been involved in the production of several films. He currently serves on the board of Yerba Buena Center of the Arts in San Francisco.
Treasurer
Rebecca Adamson
President of First Nations Development Institute
www.firstnations.org
Rebecca Adamson, a Cherokee, is Founder and President Emeritus of First Nations Development Institute (1980) and Founder and President of First Peoples Worldwide (1997). She has worked directly with grassroots tribal communities, and nationally as an advocate of local tribal issues since 1970. Ms. Adamson holds a Masters in Science in Economic Development from Southern New Hampshire University (formerly New Hampshire College) in Manchester, New Hampshire, where she also teaches a graduate course on Indigenous Economics within the Community Economic Development Program. Ms. Adamson is on the Board of Directors for the Calvert Social Investment Fund (the largest socially responsible mutual fund). She serves on the Calvert Group Governance Committee, and Co-chairs the Calvert Social Investment Fund Audit Committee.
Ms. Adamson is very active in many non-profit organizations and is currently serving on the Board of Directors for Corporation for Enterprise Development, The Bay Foundation, Josephine Bay Paul and C. Michael Paul Foundation, The Bridgespan Group, and First Voice International. Ms. Adamson's most recent honor is her selection as a 2004 Schwab Outstanding Social Entrepreneur. Ms. Adamson was recently honored with a Doctor in Humane Letters degree from Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. She was selected by the National Women's History Project as one of their 2003 honorees, and in 2002 she was selected by the Virginia Foundation for Women as one of eight Virginia Women in History honorees. In 2001 she was the recipient of Independent Sector's John W. Gardner Leadership Award, which honors outstanding Americans who exemplify the leadership of individuals working in the voluntary sector who build, mobilize, or unify people, institutions, or causes. In 1996 she was awarded the Council on Foundations Robert W. Scrivner Award for creative and innovative grantmaking, and she was awarded the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development's 1996 Jay Silverheels Award.
Secretary and Vice President
Evelyn Arce-White
Executive Director for International Funders for Indigenous Peoples.
Evelyn Arce-White, Chibcha (Colombian-American) descent, serves as Executive Director for International Funders for Indigenous Peoples and has been working for IFIP since Oct 2002. She obtained her Master's of Art in Teaching Degree at Cornell University with a concentration in Agriculture Extension and Adult Education. She was a high-school teacher for nearly seven years and taught Science, Horticulture and Independent Living Curriculum in Lansing, NY. Ms. Arce-White worked as a Communications Consultant for the Iewirokwas Program, a Native American Midwifery Program for several years and coordinated the American Indian Millennium Conference held at Cornell University in November 2001. She has contributed as a diversity consultant for Cornell's Empowering Family Development Program Curriculum. She lives on the outskirts of the Mohawk Reservation Akwesasne in Northern New York with her husband and two young children. In her IFIP role, her main responsibilities are to strategically increase membership, design and develop session proposals for grantmakers conferences, develop materials for the website and listserv, develop biannual newsletters and research reports, and help to secure funds for IFIP.
Josh Mailman
President, Joshua Mailman Foundation, Board member Sigrid Rausing Trust, U.K., Board member of the following non profits- Human Rights Watch, Witness, the Fund for Global Human Rights, Blacksmith Institute, Afropop Worldwide, Sierra Madre Alliance, Advisor to RSF Social Finance, Director Serious Change Fund, L.P. , Active Private Investor In Socially Driven Enterprises, Founder Social Venture Network, Threshold Foundation, Business for Social Responsibility.
José Luis Malvido, Jr.
Jose Malvido, Xicano, Yoeme, and Tohono O’odham, has served as the Native American Programs Manager for the Seva Foundation since February 2005. In November 2000, Mr. Malvido began his tenure as the North American coordinator of the Peace and Dignity Journeys, which covers the territories, form Alaska to Panama, an intercontinental spiritual movement that works to unite Indigenous Peoples throughout North, Central, and South America. Mr. Malvido has also served as a multicultural fellow for social justice for the San Francisco Foundation. Jose brings extensive experience supporting the work of indigenous peoples internationally from a philanthropic as well as an active member in grass roots organizing.
Tanya Hosch
Tanya Hosch has spent much of her working life in Adelaide, South Australia. Most of this time Tanya was employed in the State Public Sector across a broad range of service and policy organizations. This included working in diversity policy and human resource management, women’s services, and Aboriginal employment programs.
Since then Tanya has worked in the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Unit of the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission in Sydney, for the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation in Canberra, and then with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission in both Canberra and Adelaide.
During this time Tanya has also been actively involved in developing and delivering Leadership Programs for young Indigenous people and is a Board Director for the Australian Indigenous Leadership Centre and the Foundation for Young Australians. Tanya was a co-founder and former Trustee and inaugural Chairperson of the National Indigenous Youth Movement of Australia.
Tanya also sits on the Boards of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium, is Chair of the Women’s Health Ministerial Advisory Council in South Australia and is also a Board member of South Australia’s largest Regional Health Service. Until recently Tanya also served on the Council’s of a State based and national sexual health related services and policy advice bodies.
Tanya has also worked for Reconciliation Australia on designing a process of consultation and research on alternative models for a National Indigenous Representative Model for Australia and on the establishment of the National Indigenous Money Management Agenda project concerned with improving financial literacy of Indigenous Australians. In addition, Tanya sits on the Rio Tinto Aboriginal Foundation, is a Visiting Research Fellow with the University of Technology, Sydney and is a member of a newly formed 30 Something’s Indigenous Policy Think Tank run out of the University of Technology, Sydney.
