Shana Greenberg Barehand, originally from Los Angeles, is Mono Indian and Chicana. She works as the Liaison to tribal governments, in the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs in the Consumer & Governmental Affairs Bureau of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The Office of Intergovernmental Affairs administers the Commission's Indian Telecommunications Initiatives (ITI), a comprehensive FCC program designed to increase access to telecommunications services on tribal reservations and to promote understanding, cooperation and trust among the FCC and other government agencies, the telecommunications industry, and Native American tribes, Native American tribal organizations and Alaska Native communities. As Tribal Liaison, Ms. Barehand will play an essential role in ITI-sponsored events and other activities.

Prior to joining FCC, she was an enforcement attorney in the Toxics and Pesticides Enforcement Division, Office of Enforcement Compliance Assurances of the US Environmental Protection Agency in Washington D.C.  She is currently the Treasurer of the National Native American Bar Association and a founding board member and current Treasurer for the Society of American Indian Government Employees, www.saige.org .   She has a BA in psychology from California State University at Long Beach and a JD from the Arizona State University School of Law's Indian Law Program. 

She is a pre ICWA adoptee whose non-Indian adoptive parents kept her in touch with her American Indian heritage through involvement in the local Indian community and Indian educational programs in the schools, where she learned to fancy dance at pow wows.  In college she held leadership roles with the American Indian Students Council, coordinated pow wows, and participated in other student government organizations.   Shana entirely supported herself through college and law school. She has been a waitress, bartender well as worked for the Southern California Indian Center as a tutor for American Indian youth, the youth employment coordinator, and also the career advisor and counselor for the Indian Education Program in the Long Beach School District. She continued her involvement in the local Indian community during law school, as well as focusing her studies on Indian law, tribal courts and governments, and environmental law. While in law school, she served as the President of the National Native American Law Student's Association (NNALSA), where she was instrumental in implementing the first NNALSA Indian Law Moot Court Competition in 1991.  

Shana is married to Jeffrey Barehand and has four children and enjoys exposing them to a diverse array of experience such as volunteering for important causes, participating in cultural activities and taking them on outdoors adventures, such as hiking, camping and snowboarding.