EMBRACING INDIGENOUS ROLES
As we seek to learn from our ancestors' teachings and the ways of governance that worked for centuries prior to colonization, we invite our Indigenous roles into colonial spaces. Shifting the paradigm from Western archetypes to Indigenous Archetypes is part of our intergenerational healing approach. Through this process, we bring roles such as Advising Elder, Fire Keeper, Earth Mother, Trickster, Healer forward. Our ways may be from many differing nations yet our resilience was always rooted in the health and wellbeing of our communities while we thrived through social & value-based economies.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Mark W. Powless
Interim Board President
Oneida Tribal member
Ben L. Callif
Vice President
A Milwaukee-based philosopher, scientist at Bader Philanthropies, Inc., YouTube educator at The Paradox Perspective, and owner of eightstep me coaching and consulting.
Skye Alloway
Interim Board Treasurer
Bosho,
Boniasnoke ndeshnakas, tthigwe ndodem, bodwewadmi neshnabekwe ndaw. My name is Skye Alloway; I am Thunder clan and an enrolled member of the Forest County Potawatomi Community. I am the proud mother of a beautiful family; my partner and I share eight exceptional children. I work in Cultural Preservation for my tribe, focused on the revitalization of Bodwewadmimwen (Potawatomi language). I also attend Arizona State University, studying Business Administration.
I have witnessed HIR grow from the heart’s mission of one incredible woman to a full-fledged institute with a staff of extraordinary individuals. I am humbly honored and proud to serve in this capacity and to share in learning and growing with the HIRWI team.
Skye Alloway, Forest County Potawatomi
HIRWI Board of Directors (Treasurer)
WI DOJ MMIW Taskforce (Co-Chair)
Wisconsin Conservation Voters (Board Member)
Amy B. Bogost, JD
Board Member
Amy Blumenfeld Bogost has been practicing law since 1989 when she began as a civil rights attorney working in the areas of criminal defense and Section 1983 federal lawsuits. She continued her work in civil law in Seattle, Washington and California before settling in Madison, Wisconsin. Amy has most recently focused her practice in the area of Federal Title IX representation of victims of sensitive crimes.
CLINICAL SUPERVISORS
Providing in-kind clinical supervision to guide and grow the next generation of counselors!
Hilary Wynn, MD
Volunteer Clinical Intern Supervisor, Psychiatrist
Mark Powless, PhD
Volunteer Clinical Intern Supervisor, Psychologist
HEALING INFORMED MENTORS
Bruce D. Perry, M.D., PhD
Founder of the Neurosequential Model of Therapeutics (NMT)
Tammy Scheidegger, PhD
Mount Mary University
Jim Hastings, PhD
Clinical Psychologist Researcher