Meet Our Newest Board Member

Harrison Rice is an enrolled citizen of the Sac & Fox Nation of Oklahoma. He earned his associate and bachelor degrees in contemporary music performance from the University of Central Oklahoma. He attended PLSI in 2016 and returned as a TA in 2017. He graduated with his JD from the James E. Rogers College of Law in 2019, earning a certificate in Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy. He currently serves as an Assistant Attorney General to the Tohono O’odham Nation. Harrison lives in Tucson, Arizona, with his husband David, two kids, two cats, two dogs, and more houseplants than is generally considered reasonable.

Meet Our Newest Board Member

Louis Mallette grew up in northern California and Alaska.  He graduated from the University of Alaska Fairbanks in 2001.  After getting his JD from the University of New Mexico School of Law in 2017, he started working as an attorney for the Navajo Nation Department of Justice’s litigation unit.  In this role, his only job since graduating from law school, he works on employment and labor issues, as well as litigation involving the Navajo Nation in Navajo, state, and federal courts.  He is licensed to practice law in New Mexico and the Navajo Nation.  Louis is married to a Navajo tribal member, and they have one son.

Meet Our Newest Board Member

Danielle McLean is an enrolled member of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina and serves as the Tribe’s Legal and Compliance Officer.  She earned her bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as a J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law.  After law school, Danielle worked in private practice.  In 2016, she joined the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, located in Pembroke, North Carolina as the inaugural Legal and Compliance Officer.  She and her husband have one child and live in Nashville, Tennessee.