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NVISION STAFF
Crystal Echo Hawk (Pawnee):  Executive Director
Crystal Echo Hawk is a member of the Kitkehaki Band of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma. She is the mother of three children. Ms. Echo Hawk attended the University of Sussex in Falmer, England where she obtained her Bachelor’s Degree and Master’s Degree in Political Science and Sociology.  For the last 10 years, she has served as a front-line advocate, educator, fundraiser, local, national and international organizer for Indigenous rights, Native youth, and communities. Her work has taken her from the United Nations, to Chiapas, Mexico, to reservations and urban Indian communities throughout the United States. Ms. Echo Hawk was recognized for her work in Indigenous rights by a nomination in 1997 for the Reebok Human Rights Award and by Ms. Magazine as one of the rising women leaders under the age of thirty. In 1999, she was also nominated for a MacArthur Genius Award for her national and international advocacy work for Indigenous rights. In 1998-2000, she also won two nationally respected fellowships for her work to support the development of Native youth, Native women’s leadership, and non-profit development.
Ms. Echo Hawk served as the Tribal Planner for the Pawnee Nation from 2004-2006. Ms. Echo Hawk assisted her tribe in raising more than $4 million for major community, cultural, and economic development projects that included the establishment of the Pawnee Nation College in 2004. She recently left the Pawnee Nation in order to found NVision. Ms. Echo Hawk also recently accepted a position at the Native American Rights Fund in Boulder, CO as Assistant Director of Development.