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MAIBA thanks former President, George Soule, for his years of leadership.

2006-2008 Officers

 
  President - Jennifer Beck-Brown
Vice-President - Sarah Wheelock
Treasurer - George Soule (interim)
Secretary - Rebecca Chapman
 
     
  Board of Directors  
 

Jennifer Beck-Brown

Rebecca Chapman

Angel Daher

Jodi Drews

Jill Kehaulani Powers Esch

Catherine LaRoque

Philomena Matus

Jason Stark

Eileen Strejc
Sarah Wheelock

 
     
 
Jennifer Beck Brown, Turtle Mountain Band of Ojibwe is the President of MAIBA.  Jennifer, is an Assistant County Attorney for Hennepin County and can be contacted at jennifer.beck-brown@co.hennepin.mn.us
 
   
 
Rebecca Chapman, Wyandotte Nation of Anderdon, is the Secretary of MAIBA.  Rebecca is an attorney for the National Indian Gaming Commission's Office of General Counsel and can be reached at Rebecca_Chapman@nigc.gov.
     
 
   
 
Angel Daher, is an Attorney with the Indian Child Welfare Law Center.  Ms. Daher can be reached at angel@icwlc.org.
 
     
 
  Jodi Drews is a Turtle Mountain Chippewa. Jodi is an attorney with the Hennepin County Public Defender's Office, and can be contacted at jodi.drews@co.hennepin.mn.us.
 
     
 
Jill Kehaulani Powers Esch is a Native Hawaiian. Jill is currently the coordinator of MAIBA's annual scholarship golf tournament. Jill is a law clerk for Judge John Q. McShane, and can be contacted at jill.esch@courts.state.mn.us.
 
     
 
Catherine LaRoque is Sisseton-Wahpeton and works as for our Nation's armed forces.
 
   
     
 
   
 
     
 

Philomena Matus is a member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and

can be reached at babiwash@gmail.com.

 
     
 
George Soule (interim Treasurer for MAIBA) is a member of the White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. George is a partner at the law firm of Bowman and Brooke LLP, and can be contacted at george.soule@msp.bowmanandbrooke.com.
 
 

 

   

Jason Stark is a policy analyst for the Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission. He is Turtle Mountain Chippewa and can be reached at jstark@glifwc.org.

 
 
 

 

 

  Eileen Strejc is a member of the White Earth Nation and practices as an attorney for the City of Minneapolis. She can be reached at eileen.strejc@ci.minneapolis.mn.us.

 

   
 
     
 

Sarah Wheelock, Meskwaki Nation (Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa) is the Vice-President of MAIBA.  Sarah is an attorney at the law firm of Faegre & Benson, and can be contacted at swheelock@faegre.com.

 
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