Secretary: Lori Windle

Location: SAIGE Region 4

Lori is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe at White Earth, Mississippi Band. Lori was instrumental in the development of SAIGE from an idea to a working organization, and has just completed a two year term as Chairperson of the founding Board of Directors. She has served at the Department of the Interior Office of Surface Mining for 14 years as an Audio Visual Production Specialist, and has been their American Indian Special Emphasis Program Manager since 1992. She served on the local Federal Executive Board American Indian Program Council as both Secretary and Chairperson. She received the Secretary of the Interiors Equal Opportunity Award in 1996 and an Excellence in Government Award from the Denver Federal Executive Board in 1998. She is the designated OSM Western Regional Environmental Justice Coordinator and has produced three conferences on Sacred Sites issues in as many years. She also is a member of the Interagency Working Group on Environmental Justice Native Task Force. Lori was raised in the Denver, Colorado area where she still resides and is actively involved in the intertribal urban American Indian community. She earned a BA at Metropolitan State College in Denver and an MFA at the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she was the first person to graduate with an advanced degree in Media Arts in their Arts Department. She is an award-winning independent documentary videographer who has shown her work both nationally and internationally. She maintains an Indian listserver for transmission of announcements, events and articles of interest to native people nationally and locally. In 2004, she organized the Native Peoples Political Alliance, (NPPA) a volunteer non-partisan get-out-the-vote effort in the Denver/Boulder area, formed to increase the voter registration and election participation of Indians in the Denver Metro area. The NPPA also performs outreach and education at pow wows, feasts, and other Indian events.