Lakota Sherry Salway Black Appointed to President's Advisory Council

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Sherry Salway Black - Lakota

Native Brief: WASHINGTON - President Obama appointed Sherry Salway Black to the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability on Monday. She is tribal citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation in Pine Ridge, South Dakota.

Ms. Black is the Director of the Partnership for Tribal Governance at the National Congress of American Indians. Previously, she served as the Senior Vice President of First Nations Development Institute, a Native-led nonprofit organization that works to improve the economic condition of American Indians through promoting business development and financial literacy.

Ms. Black is a member of the Honoring Nations Board of Governors, a program established by the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development to celebrate, document, and disseminate outstanding success stories in governance among American Indian nations. She also serves on the boards of First Peoples Fund and the Johnson Scholarship Foundation.

Ms. Black earned her BS from East Stroudsburg University and her MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business.

posted November 15, 2011 6:20 am est