Janice Rice is a member of Ho-Chunk Nation & is a retired librarian with a focus on American Indian resources, literature, culture, history, language preservation & revitalization. She received her bachelors degree in Education, with an Area of Concentration in American Indian Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She received her MLS & MLS Advanced degree in American Indian Librarianship from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received the Women of Color in Education Awards from UW-Madison & the UW-System in 2009.

Kendra Greendeer, a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation, is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her dissertation “Rematriating Indigeneity in Contemporary Native American Arts” explores the work of contemporary Native women artists’ and their creations as expressions and enactments of Indigenous place that work to restructure colonial spaces. She has worked with the Teejop Community History Project since 2018 and works on several projects that incorporate a decolonial framework.

Kyla Beard is the eldest of Scott and Dawn Beard and an enrolled member of the Ho-Chunk Nation. As a young child she spent her summers in Wisconsin Dells, playing on the grounds of Standing Rock and the Winnebago Indian Museum while her parents worked, or attending powwows with her cousins. After having spent much of her childhood near Eau Claire her family moved to Portage in 2001, graduating High School in 2004. Kyla has spent the past 15 years in the Cage department of Ho-Chunk Gaming Madison, with the past 7 as the Cage Manager.

Missy Tracy is the Senior Manager - Sales at Ho-Chunk Gaming Madison and a Ho-Chunk Nation member. Her career spans decades in business management, public relations, training, regulation and community relations. She executed an award winning PR program for Ho-Chunk Gaming WI Dells and served as the National Indian Gaming Association Seminar Director. Publicly she speaks on the history and culture of Indigenous people. She proudly serves on several boards locally, statewide and nationally serving tourism, sustainability, smoke-free and responsible gaming. In July, 2020 Missy was appointed to the WI Governor’s Council on Tourism by Governor Tony Evers.

Omar Poler is a member of the Sokaogon Chippewa Community and serves as Indigenous Education Coordinator in the UW-Madison Office of the Provost. Previously, he worked in the School of Education as American Indian Curriculum Services Coordinator, advocating for the inclusion of tribal histories, cultures, and sovereignty in teacher education required by Wisconsin Act 31. For nearly 10 years, as an Outreach Specialist at the Information School, he worked with tribal librarians, archivists, and museum curators. He currently provides place-based learning opportunities about Teejop through UW–Madison First Nations Cultural Landscape Tours.

Tara Tindall is the Native American Teacher Leader for the Madison Metropolitan School District since 2017 and has completed work regarding American Indian and Ho-Chunk curriculum for K-8. Prior to that, Tara served as a K5 Elementary Classroom Teacher and Reading Interventionist. Tara is an enrolled Ho-Chunk Nation tribal member and has worked in various capacities around K-12 Indian Education. Tara possesses a WI K8 Teacher Certification, a BA in History, an MS in Curriculum; Instruction, a K12 Reading Teacher License, a K12 Reading Specialist License, and a Ph.D. Candidate at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay First Nation Indigenous Education Program. Tara has served on the Teejop Community History Project since 2017.

Stephen Kantrowitz is Plaenert-Bascom Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin- Madison, where he has taught North American history since 1995. He has worked with the Teejop Community History Project since 2018 and is closely involved with several campus projects of historical reckoning and accountability. He is the author of several prize-winning books on historical struggles for belonging, justice, and self-determination, most recently Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States (2023).

Finn Ryan is a film director and media producer based in Wisconsin. He directed Ogichidaa Storytellers, a series of short films which focuses on Lake Superior Ojibwe treaty rights. Previously, he directed the We Are Healers video series, a project to inspire Native youth to become health professionals and The Ways, a series on contemporary language and culture from Native communities around the central Great Lakes. He also produced and directed the Emmy Award winning Climate Wisconsin, a collection of multimedia stories and interactive data exploring local climate change impacts. Finn’s educational background is in culturally relevant pedagogy.

Art & Sons is a creative agency led by Scott Pauli and Jerry Chapa based in Madison, WI. We are a full-service agency developing strategy, design, and production across all mediums. We specialize in brand identities, packaging, campaigns, and experience design. Art & Sons works with Indigenous organizations and businesses in the Midwest and beyond.