Tina Kuckkahn

For more than ten years, Tina Kuckkahn has served as director of the Longhouse Education and Cultural Center at The Evergreen State College. Affiliated with both the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (enrolled) and the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa tribes, Tina works with a multitude of Northwest Tribes in her roles at Evergreen.

Tina is the project director, co-editor and co-author of the book "Hiteemlkiliiksixï" Within the Circle of the Rim: Nations Gathering on Common Ground (2002), and contributed an essay to the publication Reinventing Ourselves: Interdisciplinary Education, Collaborative Learning, and Experimentation in Higher Education (Barbara Leigh Smith, John McCann, ed. 2001); she is also published in national journals such as The American Indian Quarterly. Before coming to Evergreen, Tina was executive director of Parent to Parent Support Program of Thurston County, an organization that supports parents of children with disabilities. She holds a Juris Doctorate from the University of Wisconsin Law School and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is the recipient of the highly competitive National Indian Fellowship, awarded by the U.S. Department of Education.