 |
 |
Please click on an instructor's name below to view his/her information.
Laura Myford Brooks
Don Buzney
John Friel
John E. Galt
Marissa J. Gehley
Christopher M. Grant
Jon Grant
E. Malcolm Greenlees
Nat Hall
Kristine Hill
Lisa D. Harjo
Timothy J. Humphrey Sr.
Vernon G. Lujan
Richard G. McGee
Stephanie L. McGillivray
Tal D. Moore
Thomas Nelson
Richard Phelps
Terry Rainey
Lisa Riggleman
Harold Rivkin
Barbara Rubin
Eduardo Sanchez
Kelly Skenandore-Holtz
Laura Myford Brooks
Ms. Brooks serves as the Curriculum and Instruction Manager at the Falmouth Institute and is also an Instructor of Anthropology at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. She joined Falmouth after teaching at George Washington University and completing her Master's degree. Ms. Brooks has worked in education since 2002 and developed a passion for language and cultural issues after studying abroad at the age of 16. She has also worked at the Field Museum as a Collections Assistant.
Ms. Brooks has conducted research in the US, Samoa, New Zealand and Germany. Her areas of research interest include the process of federal recognition of Native American tribes, cultural and language preservation, the transmission of traditional knowledge to diaspora populations, the concept of cultural authenticity, and archives and artifact management. She received her M.A. in Anthropology and International Development from George Washington University and her B.A. in Anthropology and German from Illinois Wesleyan University.
Don Buzney
Don Buzney joined Falmouth's adjunct faculty April 1, 2010. He is the Human Resource Director for the Navajo Nation Casino in Gallup, NM. Prior to that, Mr. Buzney was the Human Resource Director at Turning Stone Casino, owned by the Oneida Nation of New York. Mr. Buzney holds a Masters Degree in Human Resources and has worked in the field for over 25 years.
John Friel
John Friel is a senior faculty member at the Falmouth Institute, providing training, project management and accounting services to local governments. His services include accounting system implementations, capital asset policy development, GASB 34 conversion, financial statement compilation, data management, internal controls analysis, business policy facilitation, and workflow re-engineering. He also prepares and negotiates several indirect cost proposals each year. In his work with Falmouth Institute, he has helped tribal governments to develop corrective action plans in response to audit findings issued in according with A-133 audits.
Mr. Friel conducts training sessions for the Falmouth Institute in basic and advanced fund accounting, indirect cost proposal development, project management, establishing internal controls, and financial management policies and procedures. He achieved the status of master trainer due to his outstanding achievements in workshop presentation and methodology. He has consistently demonstrated an understanding and sensitivity to the issues faced by attendees in the workshops he conducts.
John E. Galt
John E. Galt has been a Hearing Examiner/Hearing Officer for 31 years. He retired as Snohomish County, Washington, Hearing Examiner in 2000 after 22 years in that position and now provides contract public hearing and meeting moderation services to more than a dozen municipal corporations in the Puget Sound area. He specializes in land use development applications and appeals, personal property forfeiture (drug trafficking) claims, and business license appeals.
Prior to his appointment as Snohomish County Hearing Examiner, John served three years active duty in the Army and was a planner with the Snohomish County Planning Department for seven years. He is a retired Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel.
John taught “Introduction to Land Use Planning and Development” at Everett Community College from 1978 through 2004. As an adjunct faculty member of the Falmouth Institute since 2000, he has provided two-day “Zoning on Indian Land” seminars to Indian Nations throughout the United States, including numerous on-site sessions.
John received undergraduate and graduate degrees in geography and urban studies from Dartmouth College and the University of Chicago. He holds Certificates in Judicial Development - Administrative Law and - Alternative Dispute Resolution from The National Judicial College. John is a member of the National Association of Administrative Law Judges, the Hearing Examiners Association of Washington, and a Charter Member of the American Planning Association.
Christopher M. Grant
Christopher M. Grant is the former Chief of Detectives (Captain) of the Rapid City (SD) Police Department's Criminal Investigation Division and the former commander of the Rapid City Area Gang Task Force. He retired from active law enforcement in 2004 after serving his community for 27 years.
He is a graduate of the University of South Dakota (USD) with a Master's Degree in Political Science, and is an adjunct criminal justice instructor for USD. He is also a graduate of the 181st session of the FBI National Academy.
Since 1990, Mr. Grant has presented gang-awareness training to hundreds of law enforcement, educational and civic organizations, and he has spoken at numerous regional and national conferences and seminars. He has been recognized as an expert witness on the gang subculture in both state and federal court, and he specializes in gang awareness training programs dealing with Native American involvement in the street gang subculture.
Jon Grant
As a Grant Writer and Project Manager, Jon Grant develops funding programs for Indian tribes. With more than 24 years of experience in Grant Writing, Project Development and Program Management, Mr. Grant has been an adjunct instructor for Falmouth since 2004. Prior to his current position, he most recently worked for Dry Creek Rancheria in Healdsburg, California as the grant and Contract Writer, where he was responsible for new grant development, BIA 638 contract negotiation and compliance, and assisted in assuring grant compliance with agency requirements and OMB Circulars. He has successfully written grant applications for: U.S. Dept of Energy; U.S. Dept of Justice (BJA, TCAP and OJJDP); U.S. Dept of Interior (BIA and NPS); Institute of Museum and Library Services; U.S. Dept of Education; U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services (ACF, ANA, Children’s Bureau, SAMHSA); U.S. Dept of Agriculture (Rural Development); U.S. Dept of Transportation; U.S. Dept of Commerce (Economic Development Administration); State of California (Caltrans and Office of Emergency Services).
Mr. Grant has been a Project Director for two medium sized substance abuse prevention programs and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs for American Indian tribes. His background also includes child welfare and juvenile justice services. He has extensive experience in Social Services including TANF and Child Welfare development including the development of four TANF programs and three child welfare systems. He also assisted in the development of three tribal courts.
Mr. Grant holds a B.S. in Psychology from Missouri State University. He is committed to continually upgrading and expanding his skills and plans to complete his Master’s Degree in Public Administration.
Marissa J. Gehley
Marissa J. Gehley is the founder of KNOW consulting, Kids Need Our Wisdom. She has more than 30 years of experience in education as a former teacher, counselor, child welfare & attendance specialist and coordinator of school safety and the Burbank OutReach Center. Additionally she is a trainer for the California School/Law Enforcement Partnership.
Ms. Gehley is proud to have contributed to several articles published in the nationally syndicated column “A+ Advice for Parents” by Leanna Landsmann. She has presented hundred of workshops for community leaders, educators, parents and students in areas such as bully awareness/prevention, suicide prevention, effective communication techniques, school and neighborhood safety, diversity, relationship violence, child abuse and neglect and developing effective community partnerships. She holds a BS in history and social science and an MA in counseling.
E. Malcolm Greenlees
Malcolm Greenlees is the Jackson Professor of Business at Linfield College in McMinnville. Malcolm is also the author of the best selling reference book - Casino Accounting and Financial Management, published by the University of Nevada Press.
He teaches accounting and auditing, instructs in a CPA Review program and has research and consulting interests in Casino Accounting and Governmental and Not for Profit Accounting. He is the AICPA’s National Instructor for the course “Casino Gaming Industry” and has taught numerous casino industry training courses.
Dr. Greenlees has a MBA and PhD with an emphasis in Accounting from the University of Washington in Seattle. He is a CPA, licensed in Oregon, Nevada and California. He has worked for Big 6, Regional and local CPA firms during his professional career.
Nat Hall
An adjunct faculty member at the Falmouth Institute, Nat Hall facilitates high-quality, customized training to clients from tribal governments and organizations across the United States. Mr. Hall brings more than 16 years of experience in Human Resource Management and training to the Falmouth Institute.
Kristine Hill
As manager of the Gaming Employee Development department for the Oneida Casino, Ms. Hill and her staff oversee employee education compliance and employee development initiatives. They have established programs such as coaching, mentoring and tuition reimbursement for the organization. Ms. Hill brings 14 years of experience in Gaming and Tribal leadership positions to Falmouth Institute. During her tenure of tribal employment, she also has served as Vice Chair of the Oneida Nation School System, served on a General Tribal Council-directed project team to restructure the compensation system for the Oneida Nation, conducted leadership training for all levels and areas of the organization and recently worked on the training team for an organizational restructure initiative being conducted by Oneida Nation.
Ms. Hill has also worked closely with the local technical college to create and implement an Associate's degree program dedicated to the needs of Native American Gaming. She is an instructor for the Native American Gaming program, the Supervisory Management program and also conducts teacher in-services on Diversity in Classrooms.
Ms. Hill holds a Bachelors degree in Human Resource Management, a Masters degree in Management and Organizational Behavior and is currently working on her Doctoral studies in Administration and Leadership.
Lisa Harjo
Lisa Harjo has nearly 20 years of experience in preschool education. Presently, she is the Program Director of the Circle of Learning Early Childhood and Family Education Program where she is responsible for the overall supervision of three preschool education sites serving 70 children, a home-based instruction program serving twenty families and a parent education program. She administered a Head Start program in Denver and co-authored “The Circle Never Ends,” a multicultural American Indian based early childhood curriculum. Ms. Harjo received her Bachelors of Science Degree in Child Development and Native American Education and Counseling from the University of California at Davis, and her Masters of Arts in Elementary Education, Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Colorado at Denver.
Timothy J. Humphrey Sr.
Timothy J. Humphrey Sr. is a Law and Technology Specialist for Stetson Law Offices in Albuquerque, NM. Mr. Humphrey’s responsibilities as staff attorney include legal research and drafting in the areas of Indian law including environmental, housing, property, and administration. Prior to receiving his J.D., Mr. Humphrey served as a Social Worker for Indian Housing Service and a legal researcher and consultant for the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians and the Blackfeet Nation. Mr. Humphrey holds a B.A. in Social Work from New Mexico State University, an M.A. in Social Work from Worden School of Social Services and a J.D. from the University of Montana.
Vernon G. Lujan
Vernon G. Lujan has worked for the Pueblo of Pojoaque since 1995 as Director of the Poeh Arts Program and Poeh Cultural Center and Museum with his most recent appointment as Tribal Historic Preservation Officer. He formerly worked for numerous museums including the Institute of American Indian Arts, Museums of New Mexico, Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Harwood Museum of the University of New Mexico and the Smithsonian Institution.
As an adjunct faculty member, he has taught for the Falmouth Institute and the University of New Mexico in the Native American Studies and Fine Arts Departments. Vernon is a grant writer and contributing author and editor for numerous publications such as the Taos County Historical Society; Eight Northern Indian Pueblos Annual Visitor’s Guide; Santa Fe New Mexican; and various archaeological reports for both the New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies and Historical Research Associates. He continues to be a scholar and tour guide for the Crow Canyon Archaeological Center.
Vernon is an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Taos, speaks Tiwa fluently and is an articulate voice for current and historical Pueblo viewpoints. Vernon received his Master of Public Administration from the University of New Mexico and attended Arizona State University and the University of New Mexico, the latter where he received his Bachelor of University Studies degree in Southwest Studies.
Vernon is an active participant and community member at the Pueblo of Taos. When he is not volunteering his time, teaching, working, or writing, he spends his very precious remaining spare time with his family and his hobbies, which include fishing, hunting, woodworking, moccasin making and reading!
Richard G. McGee
Richard G. McGee is the principal attorney at the Law Office of Richard G. McGee in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. Mr. McGee’s practice focuses on protecting the rights of individuals, businesses and tribes. His experience in serving his clientele has focused on civil disputes, criminal matters, employment issues, contract analysis and gaming. Mr. McGee was Assistant General Counsel for the Prairie Island Indian Community. The Prairie Island Indian Community owns and operates Treasure Island Resort and Casino, which employs more than 2,000 employees. Both the Prairie Island Indian Community and Treasure Island Resort and Casino are located in southeast Minnesota.
Prior to joining the Prairie Island Indian Community, Mr. McGee spent a decade litigating business and employment cases as a lawyer at Arnold, Anderson and Dove in Minneapolis, Minnesota. While these experiences were concentrated in the Midwest, he litigated cases on both coasts as well as a fair amount of cases in Southern Texas. Mr. McGee is a graduate of the Oklahoma University Law School located in Norman, Oklahoma.
Stephanie L. McGillivray
Stephanie L. McGillivray, CFA, is Partner in SOAR Collaboration, LLC, an economic development consulting joint venture serving Indian Country, and President of Complexity Management, LLC, an economic and business development consulting firm serving Native and developing economies, and sustainable business sponsors. Ms. McGillivray has 20 years experience providing business and financial management advice to senior management at large and small companies, government (federal and tribal), and private equity and venture capital funds. She has assisted tribes with financing and investment strategies, and was the principal author of the CDFI Fund Native American Equity Investment Research and Roundtable project and report and an author of the Native American Lending Study which went to Congress and the White House. She is a co-founder of two equity funds (currently in formation) to invest in Native businesses, which will be managed by SOAR Management, Inc.
She is a Chartered Financial Analyst, has an MBA in Finance from Columbia University and a B.A. in economics and geology from Wellesley College.
Tal D. Moore
As Chief Human Resource Officer for the Pueblo of Sandia, Tal D. Moore directs all HR and Organizational Development activity to include training, benefits administration, employee relations, recruitment and compensation for over 2000 associates.
Tal brings more than 22 years of experience in Gaming and Tribal Operational HR/OD strength to the Falmouth Institute. Prior to his current position, he most recently served as Director of Business Development for the Falmouth Institute.
Mr. Moore also served for 10 years at the University of Central Missori as an Assistant Professor of Consumer Sciences and Director of the Hospitality Institute of Missouri.
Tal holds a BS degree in Consumer Sciences from Central Missouri State University. He also earned MA from Washington Univeristy in St. Louis, MO.
Thomas Nelson
After decades of teaching and then practicing corporate law and litigation first in the leading Portland law firm and then as senior partner in his own firm, Mr. Nelson today restricts his practice to Indian law, international law and human rights matters.
Mr. Nelson graduated from the University of Washington in 1966. He then served as an American Peace Corps Volunteer in Iran, where he taught high school and worked relief and reconstruction activities following the deadly 1968 Khorrassan earthquake. Upon his return to the U.S. he attended Valparaiso University Law School, graduating with highest honors in 1973. Upon receiving his Juris Doctor degree, Mr. Nelson received a Sterling Fellowship to attend Yale Law School, from which he received an LL.M. degree in 1974, after which he taught law school for three years at the University of Connecticut. On returning to the Northwest in 1978, Mr. Nelson entered private practice, where he ultimately became a partner in Portland’s largest law firm, Stoel Rives, LLP. Mr. Nelson left Stoel Rives in 1996 to form his own firm. His practice has evolved from exclusively utility matters first to Indian law, principally representing Native Americans in bringing trespass actions against illegal occupiers of their lands. Today Mr. Nelson is a sole practitioner from an office in the Cascade foothills of Oregon.
Richard Phelps
Richard Phelps, CEO of the Falmouth Institute, has conducted hundreds of workshops for Alaska Native and American Indian tribal governments. His areas of expertise include self-determination contracting, indirect cost issues, budgeting, finance and acquisition. In addition to his numerous training assignments, he provides technical assistance to tribal organizations on matters such as business development and financial management. Prior to founding the Falmouth Institute, Mr. Phelps was a senior trainer at Sterling Institute. He holds a B.S. Degree in Accounting and a degree in Management.
Terry Rainey
Terry Rainey is the President of Ink Impressions, Inc. and its Automated Election Services division. With more than 14 years of service, he has seen the company through its evolution from a business forms manufacturer and distributor to its position today as a nationally known provider of automated election, enrollment, voter registration and security data management products and services to public, private and Native American organizations. He has supervised the management of over 700 elections in the public and private sectors and has supervised the design and installation of over 30 of the company’s enrollment and database management applications.
Lisa Riggleman
An independent trainer and professional speaker, Lisa Riggleman directs a consulting practice specializing in customer service, team building, business communication, management skills and 
leadership practices. She also serves as a personal speech coach and consultant as well as an adjunct faculty member with Webster University graduate school and the Community College of Southern Nevada. She is a senior consultant with more than 10 years experience with the Falmouth Institute.
Lisa brings more than 20 years of experience in the education, communications and human resources field to the Falmouth Institute. Prior to her current consulting positions, she most recently worked for Nevada Power Company as the Executive and Management Internal Training Consultant in Las Vegas where she was responsible for all leadership and management development.
Harold Rivkin
Mr. Rivkin is a former Chief of Police with a suburban Chicago Police Department and former owner/operator of an Illinois based private investigation firm, brings more than thirty five years experience in law enforcement, internal investigations, security systems and asset protection to his current position. He worked for Lord & Taylor, a major specialty store based out of New York City, as Assistant Director of Security and then spent thirteen years as the Corporate Director of Asset Protection for the H.C. Prange Company, a $600 million per year retail business. As well as conducting hundreds of internal investigations, his responsibilities included developing internal controls and security related policies.
Prior to joining Falmouth, Mr. Rivkin has performed duties as General Manager of a mid west privately owned private investigation firm, including conducting internal theft investigations and interviews as well as managing the staff of Security Consultants and investigators.
He has been a member of American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS) for the last thirty years and maintained a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) designation for fifteen years. He has held several offices including President of the local ASIS chapter. For the last several years Mr. Rivkin has served as a board member of the Brown County Economic Crime Committee, a group of businessmen in the community volunteering their time and experience to prevent crime. Mr. Rivkin has also served on the Executive Board of an area Crime Stoppers group for the last eight years.
Mr. Rivkin currently serves Falmouth Institute as Consulting Services Manager and frequently conducts training in Falmouth Institute’s sessions, including Casino Surveillance, Background and Character Investigations and Employee Theft in Indian Country. He has extensive experience in Indian Country and has worked with several tribal casinos in both investigations and consulting and advisement. He currently serves two Tribal agencies as an Adjudicator for their PL 101-630 compliance programs.
Barbara Rubin
Barbara Rubin has more than 28 years of experience in health information management and 12 years of teaching in the higher academia. She is an AHIMA certified ICD 10 Trainer. She taught biological sciences and health information management at Illinois State University at Bloomington, Illinois in their baccalaureate program. She served as the program director for the associate degree program in health information technology at Dodge City, Kansas. She established and for four years, taught the coding programs at Redlands Community College which is an associate degree program. She developed and taught coding at Canadian Valley Vocational Technology in El Reno, Oklahoma for five years. In addition, she has worked as Corporate Director for three large healthcare corporations.
She earned her undergraduate degree from East Central University at Ada, Oklahoma in the area of Medical Record Administration and her Master's degree in Education from the University of Central Oklahoma. She has written and published several articles in the area of best practices for healthcare.
Eduardo Sanchez
A Registered Health Information Administrator, Eduardo Sanchez has 20 years of experience in Health Information Administration with various healthcare facilities. He is currently the Director of Health Information Management and Assistant Privacy Officer for a 350-bed acute care facility in Southwest Texas. He has experience in implementing electronic patient care records and other various healthcare systems.
Eduardo's expertise is coding and billing functions, and the appropriate release of patient care information, along with other aspects in patient information administration. He received his Bachelor of Science Degree from Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California, and his Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Phoenix.
Kelly Skenandore-Holtz
Kelly Skenandore-Holtz, Training & Development Manager for Oneida Casino located in Wisconsin, brings over 13 years of experience working with the Oneida Nation to the Falmouth Institute. From her first year of employment as the Executive Assistant under the direction of the Human Resources Manager to an executive host for the Nation's casino to her current role as a member of the National Strategy Management Team for the Oneida Nation, Kelly has gained unique experience working in Indian Country that is evident in her presentations.
Kelly has developed and provided training to employees at all levels of the organization and is enthusiastic in her mission to assist in the development of successful leaders in the workplace. She has worked with various employee development programs such as a supervisory certificate series which qualifies for Technical college credits, team building, customer service, new employee orientation, leadership development and strategy execution.
Kelly has experience working with many organizational development projects and has assisted in the development of an improved performance appraisal system, vision & mission implementation and has worked as a member of a nationally awarded cross functional team of volunteers focused on leadership development. Most recently, Ms. Skenandore-Holtz has worked as a member of a National Strategy Management Team focused on an organization-wide restructuring project surrounding the development, execution and management of strategy in the organization.
Ms. Skenandore holds a baccalaureate degree in Communicative Disorders and a Masters degree in Management and Organizational Behavior.