2007 - ATALM | Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, & Museums

46 2007 National Conference of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums
Program Presenters
Professional Studies Department at the University of
West Georgia. Her research interests and publications
address qualitative and action research and focus on
issues of interest to American Indian women, specifically
Muscogee (Creek) women. She has conducted
several ethnographic studies with Muscogee women
over the last ten years. Her doctoral dissertation was
on Muscogee (Creek) women’s perceptions of work.
Janice Kowemy is an Honoring Generations Graduate
Student in the School of Information at the University
of Texas at Austin. She is a tribal member of Laguna
Pueblo located in New Mexico. She is interested in
collaborating with tribal and public libraries, especially
with the Laguna Public Library, to help improve and
continue access to information and technology as well
as preserve tribal history, language and traditions, for
future generations.
Bambi Kraus, a graduate of Stanford University, has
been committed to working with and advocating for
Native rights. She is the president of the National Association
of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers. Kraus
has worked as a senior advisor for President Clinton’s
Initiative on Race, assistant director of the National
Indian Policy Center, legislative policy analyst at the
National Advisory Council on Indian Education (U.S.
Department of Education), and a museum technician
at the National Anthropological Archives (Smithsonian
Institution). She currently serves as an elected board
member of the Kake Tribal Corporation, an Alaska
Native for-profit corporation that was created by the
Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Among other
achievements, she completed a children’s book in
1998 with and about her mother, Frances Nannauck
Kraus. Kraus is a Tlingit Indian, whose family is from
Kake, Alaska. In 1994, she won the “Best of Division” for
color photography at the Indian Market Photography
Exhibit in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Kristen Overbeck Laise is the Vice President for
Collections Care Programs at Heritage Preservation,
a national, non-profit organization that advocates for
collections. She directed the Heritage Health Index,
the first comprehensive survey of the condition and
preservation needs of U.S. collections. The survey,
which released its results in December 2005, was
coordinated by Heritage Preservation in partnership
with the Institute of Museum and Library Services with
funding from the Getty Foundation and other private
foundations. Laise is currently directing another national
initiative, Rescue Public Murals. Previously, she
coordinated the Conservation Assessment Program,
a technical assistance program for small museums
administered by Heritage Preservation in cooperation
with IMLS. She holds a BA in History from Earlham
College and a MA in Art History from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison.
James Lambertus, a member of the Hopi tribe, is a
creative director, art director and designer, currently
based in San Francisco and Oklahoma City. He has
worked in and with advertising agencies, corporations,
design firms, publishing companies, government entities
and non-profit organizations on projects in print
and new media. His work has been published in See
Magazine, American Photography, American Illustration,
and Communication Arts Design Annual. His work was
selected for “The 100 Show,” AIGA Communication
Graphics, the Society of Publication Designers Annual
Design Competition, and the New York Art Directors
Club Competition, and is in the New York Museum of
Modern Art’s Artist’s Book Collection, as well as the
Library of Congress.
Rita Lara is an enrolled member of the Oneida Nation
of Wisconsin. She has been employed with the
Nation since 1991 in various management capacities.
Lara currently manages and directs the operations of
the Oneida Nation Museum, which combines Oneida
Nation culture, arts, and history into an active, vital
and living resource for the Oneida people and greater
public. Ms Lara received her BA in Business Management/Communications
from Concordia University
and MS in Management and Organizational Behavior
from Silver Lake College. She is currently the co-chair
person for the Native American Museum Professional
Interest Committee. She is a board member for the
Fox Cities Children Museum and the Brown County
Federation of Historic Museums.
Robin Levin earned her masters degree from the
University of Massachusetts in educational media
technology. Her multicultural background includes
creating a digital catalogue at the S. Y. Agnon Museum
Library in Jerusalem, Israel. She has served as a high
school librarian in Long Branch, New Jersey; Librarian
for St. Stephens BIA school, Wyoming; Head of library
services at Fort Washakie, Wyoming; and co-developer
of multi-cultural standards for the Wyoming Department
of Education.
Sue Linder-Linsley received her BA from Beloit College,
Beloit, Wisconsin with an anthropology major
and museum studies minor; and a MA from Southern
Methodist University, Dallas, Texas in archaeology. She
is a registered professional archaeologist. Linder-Linsley
worked for Southern Methodist University in the
Department of Anthropology and the Institute for the
Study of Earth and Man. Her most recent position was