BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Joanelle Romero - Apache/Cheyenne Nations

Established Award winning filmmaker, actress, record producer, musician, entrepreneur and humanitarian.  Founder of Award-winning Spirit World Productions, the Red Nation Celebration & Annual Concert Series, Red Nation Television Channel, Native Women In Music, Native Women in Film & Television, Red Nation Records, Warriors Against AIDS & Awareness, The Annual Red Nation Film Festival (the only American Film Festival in Los Angeles CA), and founder/creator/producer of American Indian Heritage Month in the City of Los Angeles, established over 12 annual events held during American Indian Heritage Month.

30 years as a leading actress in films and television.
26 years as a recording artist.
26 years of sobriety.
16 years producing concerts.
16 years directing and producing award-winning documentary films; currently received a Armin T. Wegner Humanitarian Award in 2005.  

Elizabeth Sage Galesi - Apache/Cheyenne/Lakota Nations.  Twenty-Two year old Award-winning actress, singer/singer/performer is President of Red Nation Celebration.  Elizabeth Sage is Executive Director of Red Nation Youth Music Council and Senior Executive of Red Nation Records.  Elizabeth Sage was the youngest artist to carry such a high position at a record label.  Elizabeth Sage is currently attending an Ivy-League University.

Jay Tavare - Apache Nation - (Los Angeles, CA) - Leading Actor. Star of Into The West, UnBowed, Pathfinder, The Missing, Adaptation, Cold Mountain, Street Fighter. 

Sam Bear Paw - Apache Nation - (Los Angeles, CA) - Actor. Wild West Series on History Channel, Traditional Singer w/Red Hand Drum Group,  Traditional Dancer, Traditional Grass Dancer and Chicken Dancer.  

Colee Viedelle Smith - Treasurer (Los Angeles, CA) - Writer, producer and former film and television talent manager and agent.

Vanessa Brown - Dine Nation (Navajo Reservation, AZ) - Actress and founder of AZ “Stars In The Desert”

Edward Albert Jr. - Mexican Indian (Malibu, CA) Commissioner on American Indian Affairs in the State of California.   Award-winning actor, star of several award-winning films and television.

Sally Kirkland - Academy Award winning Actress and activist, as well as Reverend.  Reverend Kirkland is spitirtual teacher.

Alan W. Silberberg - "Producer, former TV Host, Business executive and committed cultural and environmental activist. Alan is a veteran of the U.S. White House staff and of Paramount Pictures where he was an executive. He is both an entrepreneur and a political thought leader who brings a combination of media and political relationships to Red Nation."

Larry Sellers - Lakota/Osage Nations - (Tulsa, OK) - Indian ceremonial leader and actor who played the leading Indian role Cloud Dancing in the popular series “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman.”

Michael Horse - Apache/ Zuni Nations (San Francisco, CA)  - Internationally known Indian artist and actor known for roles in the series “Roswell” and “X-Files,” television movie roles such as “Lakota Woman” and feature films such as “The Lone Ranger."                                                   

Montano Rain - Apache/Cheyenne Nations - (Van Nuys, CA) - 12 year old actor Montano Rain is founder of his own non-profit organization HELP THE EARTH "HTE".    Traditional American Indian Hoop Dancer, Rock & Roll Drummer & Traditional American Indian Drummer/Singer, Piano and Artist.  Montano Rain plays five instruments and masters three.  Montano Rain is young Neo in Matrix Reloaded.   Montano Rain has grown up in the entertainment industry.  Born in Santa Fe, New Mexico, he is in seventh grade.  He brings the next generation’s voice to Red Nation board.

Dan Aykroyd: Blues Brother, Actor
 
John Bryant: Founder, Chairman CEO of Operation Hope

Ron Holman, Ph.D: Financial and Business Advisor, President of The Holman

Manny Sandoval "Eagle Elk Council Pipe"  

Theda J. McPheron Keel: RN, CRRN, MA, MS, MA, CHES (PhD) Founder of non-profit Wind Hollow Foundation

Don Keel: Mr. Keel co-founded and serves as Vice President and Treasurer of a nonprofit organization, Wind Hollow Foundation, which focuses on American Indian needs nationally in such areas as health care, economic development, cultural development and preservation, and cross-cultural education programs. 

Lisa Tiger: is a HIV/AIDS educator and motivational speaker. She is a member of the Muscogee Nation and is of Creek, Seminole, Cherokee and Irish descent.  Lisa has been doing AIDS education since learning she was infected with the virus in 1992.  Infected by a boyfriend in 1988, in her hometown of Muskogee, Oklahoma, she went from HIV to AIDS in 1999.  Lisa has won numerous awards for her work as an AIDS educator.  For over a decade Lisa has dedicated her life to raising abandoned and abused children. 

Easi Morales: “NYPD Blues” PBS “American Family, Actor
 
Dr. Anthony Stately: Ph. D. former AIDS Project LA

Dr. Joel Silbar: Silbar Chiropractic

John Funmaker: (Ho-Chunk Nation) – Respected community leader in American Indian communities across the country.

Each year Red Nation has approximately 100 volunteers.  More than half is American Indian.

UCS, UCLA, CSUN Students have all been volunteers or interns over the years.

Carolyn Dunn - (San Pedro, CA) - American Indian author, publisher and university lecturer on Native American Studies.

Chief Crazy Bull - Lakota Sprirual Leader