Board of Directors
At the Tribal Trust Foundation, we honor Indigenous peoples as keepers of critically important knowledge and recognize the deep value of preserving their languages, art, stories and songs around the world. As allies, we are committed to showing up to support, protect, and preserve their ways so we may all live more fully and holistically with, and as part of, nature and the sacred web of life on Earth.

Téana David

Andrew Smyth
Andrew is a Marriage and Family Therapist with a passion for helping others heal through somatic awareness and nature connection practices. He believes each of us has a unique inner knowing that constantly attempts to guide us towards our highest potential. As a bridgbuilder between ancient wisdom ways and modern society he remains curious and open to learning in these regenerative times. His passion for helping others slow down, listen, and remember are core principles of his heart path. Andrew joined the Tribal Trust desiring to expand his understanding of the world's many cultures and serve as a guiding light for our next generation of conscious beings. You will most often find him in the ocean surfing or exploring Santa Barbara's sidecountry with his dog Humphrey.

Amber B. Pagaling
sECRETARY
Holly Sherwin
Holly Sherwin has spent her career working in the environmental field as an educator,
advocate, author and artist. She began as a naturalist and boat guide in southwest Florida, then travelled to Nashville where she worked in film for the PBS show “Tennessee’s Wildside”. After her move to Santa Barbara, Holly became involved with SB Channelkeeper as well as the Community Environmental Council. In her work she has always encouraged others to strengthen their relationship with the earth, it’s creatures and sacred plants.

Barbara Savage

Dawn A. Murray, M.S., PhD

Kimberly Pinkson
Programming & STrategic Planning Consultant
Inspired by a unique childhood in close relationship with Indigenous elders and ancient-wisdom ways, Kimberly is a mission-driven, multi-hyphenate entrepreneur and producer committed to restoring remembrance of our role as part of the sacred web of life. She has worked across myriad sectors from education to entertainment and developed global social and environmental impact campaigns throughout North America, Asia Pacific, EMEA, and Latin America with partners such as Mercedes Benz, Walmart, Nissan, Stonyfield Farms, and Method; nonprofits such as Sierra Club, the UN, and Environmental Working Group; and with activist celebrities. Kimberly has been a keynote speaker at conferences such as Bioneers, the World Women's Forum, and the Natural Products Expos; and on media outlets such as The New York Times, 20/20, The TODAY Show, CBS Morning News, Bloomberg, and CNBC. She lives in California with her son and family, both two and four-legged and, when not working, can be found on the beach or trails, listening to the wisdom of Nature.
ADVISORS

Art Cisneros

Maya Shaw Gale

Bob Hitchcock, PhD
Advisor
Bob (PhD, University of New Mexico, 1982) is currently a professor of Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque as well as an Adjunct Professor of Geography and Geospatial Sciences at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. He is a board member of the Kalahari Peoples Fund, a nonprofit 501©3 organization that assists poor people in southern Africa. Bob has worked on indigenous peoples’ rights issues in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas since the 1970s. He has provided anthropological expertise in land and resource rights-related legal cases involving indigenous people, including in Botswana, Namibia, and the United States. Some of his early field work was among Al-Murrah Bedouins of eastern Saudi Arabia, Chumash of the Santa Barbara and Malibu and Santa Ynez Valley regions of southern California, and Navajo (Diné) of New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah. His work focuses on genocide and human rights among indigenous peoples world-wide.

Cory Stover
Advisor
Corey Stover is the Director of Vocational Education at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota. Through his career in education administration, Corey’s focus is on enhancing the lives of community members through recruitment into Oglala Lakota College’s award winning technical training programs provided under the Vocational Education department. Corey is an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Sioux Tribe and holds a Bachelor's degree in Lakota Studies with emphasis in Indian Law as well as Associates degrees in Lakota Studies and Tribal Law from Oglala Lakota College. Along with his career, Corey is a self-taught traditional Lakota artist focusing on traditional Lakota beadworks and dance regalia. Corey is very knowledgeable of the Lakota culture and way of life as well as the Lakota language.
Corey grew up in South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation and has lineage tracing back to Chief Whistling Elk of the Northern Cheyenne. Corey graduated from Shannon County Virtual High School in 2008, making history in South Dakota for being the first Native American in the state to graduate from the first virtual high school in South Dakota while also being on an Indian Reservation. Corey is currently working on a Masters degree in Indigenous Peoples Law from the University of Oklahoma College of Law. Corey has also served as the Vice President for the Medicine Root District Executive Board from 2019-2021.

Jill Elisofon

