Co-Founder
Michael Chapman is one of the country's leading authorities on both corporate and foundation fundraising. He has raised over $150 million for organizations including: Americans for Indian Opportunity, the Council of Energy Resource Tribes and The Institute of American Indian Arts. A member of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, Michael was elected Chairman in 2005, overseeing a $70 million governmental operation with over 800 employees. He has served as the Staff Advisor to the President's Commission on National and Community Service, Coordinator of the White House Conference on Indian Education, Expert Consultant to the Indian Arts and Crafts Board and Special Assistant to the Deputy Commissioner and the Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs in the Department of Interior.
Michael also helped launch ASCENT: Leading Multicultural Women to the Top, a corporate leadership program academically anchored at Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business. He is Advisor to The Flying Eagle Woman Fund and serves on the following boards: Americans for Indian Opportunity, SIA Eagle Institute and Bee Native.
Co-Founder
Gail Bruce is an artist and Native American Education Activist. In her early career, Gail was a leading model throughout Europe and America, working for Chanel, Vogue and photographer Irving Penn. Discovered by director Howard Hawks, she pursued a career in film and television. Subsequently, she followed her passion for art, studying at the Art Students League in New York where she took up serigraphy and painting.
Gail is a founding board member of The American Indian College Fund and the creator and founder of the Cultural Learning Centers Initiative for the American Indian Higher Education Consortium, which built learning centers at 29 American Indian Tribal Colleges in 12 states. She serves on the Multicultural Audience Development Initiative of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and is co-founder of the non-profit Bee Native.
Gail is President of RAMSCALE, the West Village loft space she founded to house events, art exhibitions and productions. She continues to create art and exhibits her work throughout the United States.