The Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies community consists of a Faculty Director, Seven Executive Board Members (including one Graduate Student Representative), a Program Coordinator, Seven External Advisory Board Members, Core Faculty, Affiliate Faculty, as well as Students and Staff from across the CU Boulder campus. Our Center’s Core and Affiliate Faculty include more than forty scholars and researchers who work partly or entirely in the area of Indigenous Studies and/or who work closely with Indigenous communities.
Faculty Director
![Andrew Cowell](https://www.colorado.edu/cnais/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/andrew_cowell_0.jpg?itok=zQKYs1B3)
Andrew Cowell
Faculty Director • Executive Board Member • Professor
Linguistics
Staff
![Crank](https://www.colorado.edu/cnais/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/lila_crank.png?itok=Q8hPS6_1)
Lila Crank
CNAIS Office Manager • Administrative Coordinator
Graduate School
Executive Board Members
![joe bryan](https://www.colorado.edu/cnais/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/joe_bryan_3.jpg?itok=Vf_nuDAz)
Joe Bryan
Associate Professor
Geography
![Cassie Sando CU Upward Bound](https://www.colorado.edu/cnais/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/cassie_sando.jpg?itok=UW4EbaZR)
Cassie Sando
Director
CU Upward Bound
![Anna Tsouhlarakis](https://www.colorado.edu/cnais/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/anna_tshoularakis.jpg?itok=6lPbHys2)
Anna Tsouhlarakis
Assistant Professor
Department of Art and Art History
![Melanie Yazzie](https://www.colorado.edu/cnais/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/melanie_yazzie.png?itok=_4jIuZPh)
Melanie Yazzie
Professor • Area Coordinator Printmaking
Art and Art History
![Leila Gomez](https://www.colorado.edu/cnais/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/leila-gomez-square.jpeg?itok=KbQ4V1Fh)
Leila Gómez
Professor
Women and Gender Studies
![Christina Stanton](https://www.colorado.edu/cnais/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/chritina_stanton.jpg?itok=2H8gNr2S)
Christina Stanton
Director, American Indian Law Clinic
American Indian Law Clinic
Graduate Representative
![Tanner Peltier](https://www.colorado.edu/cnais/sites/default/files/styles/large_square_thumbnail/public/people/tanner-peltier_0.jpg?itok=oU8jafSg)
Tanner Peltier
PhD Student, Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology (MCDB)