Native American Advisory Committee

A photo of Sunset Lake in autumn. The lake is covered by fog, and the trees are brown with sunlight reflecting off them,

Decolonizing Vassar: Living the Land Acknowledgment

Lenapehoking: traditional Lenape homeland, of which Vassar lands are part. (Sunset Lake on Vassar Campus): Lenape
Photo: Tamar M. Thibodeau

Decolonizing Vassar: Living the Land Acknowledgment

Pkuwiimakw (Joe-Pye-Weed, to be found on the Vassar Farm): Stockbridge Munsee

The Vassar Native American Advisory Committee (NAAC) is a subcommittee of Vassar’s Committee on Inclusion and Equity (CIE). Its members are drawn from faculty, staff, administrators, and students and its role is to advise the College on all matters related to Native and Indigenous Peoples.

Members

Kelli Duncan, Associate Dean of the Faculty and Academic Resources
Bart Thurber, The Anne Hendricks Bass Director of the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center and Lecturer in Art
Molly McGlennen, Professor of English
Kimberly Williams Brown, Assistant Professor of Education
Rebecca Pollet, Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Nicholas A. de Leeuw, Senior Lecturer in Psychological Science, Committee on Inclusion & Equity (CIE)
Shaylee Bonsness ([email protected]), Student representative
Rebecca Rodriguez ([email protected]), Student representative
Maya Winter ([email protected]), Student representative

Peter Campbell ([email protected]), Student representative from the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (NAISA)
Joe Tanski, Professor of Chemistry
Tracy Wright-Mauer ([email protected]), Library Specialist
Tobias Devor ([email protected]), Office of Advancement
Ronald D. Patkus, Head of Special Collections and College Historian, Adjunct Associate Professor of History on the Frederick Weyerhaeuser Chair
Jennifer Herrera, Lecturer in Chemistry
Selena Hughes ([email protected]), Engaged Pluralism (EP) Representative