➜ Trisheena Kills Pretty Enemy was presented with the Daniel Voyich Award for Indigenous Community Involvement during the 44th annual American Indian Council Powwow held in March at Montana State University, in Bozeman. She was also the subject of a feature article in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. A member of the class of 2019 at Montana State University, she served as vice president of the AISES College Chapter and is headed to graduate school, where she plans to continue her research in microbiology. For more on Kills Pretty Enemy, see the Winds of Change 2017–2018 Special College Issue.
➜ Shawaan Jackson-Gamble was voted Emerging Leader at the 84th Tribal Assembly of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. Currently a student at Northwest Indian College in Bellingham, Wash., Jackson-Gamble is studying Native environmental science.
➜ Carl Petersen is one of 10 recipients of a $10,000 Dreamstarter grant to develop a video game, called Tipi Builder, to teach the Lakota language. A computer design major at Dakota State University in Madison, S.D., Petersen is designing his interactive 3-D game to engage players in learning conversational Lakota as they build a tipi. He hopes to open a design studio on the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation to create jobs and eventually make other games that are non-stereotypical depictions of Native language and culture. The Dreamstarter grant program is part of Running Strong for American Indian Youth, founded by Olympic champion Billy Mills, Oglala Lakota.
➜ Jen VanStrander has been honored with a Kearse Undergraduate Writing Award from the College of Liberal Arts at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, N.Y. She is a fourth-year international and global studies student at RIT, where she is active in both AISES and the Native American Student Association.
The generosity of our Full Circle of Support (FCS) Partners and Circle of Support Partners is integral to the AISES mission. FCS Partners are organizations that have established a multiprogram partnership with AISES for three or more years, while Circle of Support Partners assist in funding a diverse range of programs and events in the STEM fields. We wish to thank each for their continued effort to serve AISES student and professional members.
