The Core Team

The core team of TMP&C is a group of Indian and non-Indian professionals with expertise in working with museums, non-profits and cultural institutions nationwide. Each of them understands how tribal governments work, the dynamics of working in Indian Country and the special opportunities and challenges facing tribes. That experience and knowledge are the prerequisites to inviting them to be members of the core team.

Team members wear multiple hats. For example, Alice Parman is an exhibit developer and an organizational coach. Sammye Meadows is a jack-of-all-trades, ranging from expert grant writer to media relations and campaign specialist. Through our combined, extensive regional and national networks in a wide variety of fields, we have access to dozens of related specialists and professionals, including collections specialists, conservators, exhibit and graphic designers, educators and others.

For each client, we examine your goals and needs and we invite other experts to be on our team as required. From time to time we’ll invite other specialists and professionals to join our TMP&C core team. too.

Meet some great folks, here they are:

Archives
Shayne Del Cohen

Community Visioning & Facilitation; Values, Mission & Goals Statements; Program Development
Lisa J. Watt (Seneca), Principal

Fundraising & Grant Writing; Strategic Planning; Media Relations
Sammye Meadows

Governance
Kathleen M. Nilles, Esq. 

Interpretive Planning/ Exhibition Development
Alice Parman

Landscape Design & Architecture
Brian McCormack (Nez Perce)

Legislative Advocacy
Katherine Deming Brodie, Esq. 

Image above:
Georg Heinrich von Langsdorff
“Ein Tanz de Indianer in der Mission in St. Jose in Neu-Californien” (“Indian Dance at the Mission of San Jose in New California”), 1806
Courtesy of the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley.