Clyde Tyndall
ICI Executive Director
clyde.tyndall@indiancenterinc.org
Tyndall has led the Indian Center since May 2005. Prior to lending his expertise to the Indian Center, he served as Chief of Tribal Operations at the Omaha Tribe and as Assistant Tribal Business Manager for the Ponca Tribe of Nebraska. Tyndall has been key to envisioning new avenues of interest and securing additional grant funding. He is a Vietnam Veteran and member of the Omaha Tribe.
Bobby Robinette
Housing/Finance Director
b.robinette@indiancenterinc.org
Robinette has been hard at work at the Center since 1996 and is Santee Sioux. He holds a B.S. in Business Administration-Accounting (1994).
Cal Pekas
CSFP/Facilities Director/Volunteer Coordinator
cal.pekasjr@indiancenterinc.org
Pekas, who has been working at the Indian Center since October 2006, oversees much of the Center's daily operations, including all of the food programs. Years ago Pekas, a Yankton Sioux tribal member who also has Winnebago ancestry, headed Social Services operations at the now-defunct Omaha Indian Center.
Rose Fosler
Accounting
R.Fosler@indiancenterinc.org
Fosler has been busy as a bee since starting at the Indian Center over 14 years ago in March 1996! She received a post-secondary certificate in business and has been in the accounting field longer than most of our clients have been alive.
Jacinda Welsch
Executive Assistant/Family Services
j.star@indiancenterinc.org
Ms. Welsch started as an AmeriCorps member for the Youth Program in September 2006. She earned her B.S. in Business Administration in 2005 with a minor in Sociology and is Omaha. She is the Vice Chair of the Board of Directors at Volunteer Partners in Lincoln.
Joe Bad Moccasin Jr.
Youth Coordinator
Joe.BadMoccasinjr@indiancenterinc.org
Many will recognize Joe as a returnee to the Youth Program. He has years of experience working with Native American youth in Lincoln, and was even a program participant himself in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He served a 1-year as term as an AmeriCorps member here in 1996-1997 and was employed with the Indian Center 1999-December 2003 before re-joining us in June 2010. He is Crow Creek (Dakota) Sioux and Choctaw.
Linda Robinson
Healthy Marriage Project Director
linda.robinson@indiancenterinc.org
Robinson's work with the Indian Center began in October 2006 at the onset of the Nebraska Indian Healthy Marriage Project grant. Also an artist, she holds a Masters of Arts degree and previously worked for the Omaha Tribe.
Rose Springer
Healthy Marriage Project Trainer/HUD Counselor
r.springer@indiancenterinc.org
Springer has been with the Indian Center since signing with AmeriCorps in September 2005. She served a year-long term as Youth Coordinator before joining the Healthy Marriage Project in October 2006. She is a member of the Omaha Tribe.
Norma Parent
Healthy Marriage Administrative Assistant
norma.parent@indiancenterinc.org
Parent joined us in November 2008. She is an Omaha Tribal member and has previously worked at Assurity in Lincoln.
Barb Grant
Circle of Care Director
barb@indiancenterinc.org
Barb has been working at the Indian Center since December 2006. She holds a B.S. degree in Business Administration. She is an enrolled member of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska.
Cody Manthei
Circle of Care Mental Health Planner
cody.manthei@indiancenterinc.org
Manthei received her A.A.S. in Human Services in 2004 and has been passionately entrenched in the field since. She expects to receive her PLADC (Provisional License Drug and Alcohol Counselor) in September 2010.
Sheila Rhodus
Circle of Care Mental Health Planner-Omaha
sheila.rhodus@indiancenterinc.org
Sheila was hired as the Circles of Care Mental Health Planner in our Omaha office in August of 2009. She has 10 years experience working with various tribes in Kansas. She was previously employed with the Kickapoo Nation School as a Parent Educator.
Kathy Harlan
Receptionist
NotAvailable@email.com
Kathleen is a member of the Omaha Tribe currently helping us out by answering phones and providing direction at the front desk here at the Indian Center.
Cuba Dabney
WIA Site, 2421 N. 24th St., Omaha, NE 68110
cuba.dabney@indiancenterinc.org
Dabney began working at the Workforce Investment Act Program Omaha site in November 2008, replacing Elan Cunningham, who served for 24 years! Ms. Dabney is of the Omaha Tribe.
Juanita "Jina" Red Nest
WIA Site, 1934 3rd Avenue, Scottsbluff, NE 69361
jina.rednest@indiancenterinc.org
Ms. Red Nest is Lakota and Oneida (of Wisconsin) and has been with the Indian Center at the Scottsbluff office since 2004.
Sue Bad Moccasin
Community Outreach
NotAvailable@email.com
Sue is another returnee to the Indian Center, having been employed here 1990-1995 before returning this spring, 2010. A Choctaw tribal member, Ms. Bad Mocassin serves in a variety of functions including CSFP support and assisting the Indian Center Sewing Maidens.
Jessica James
Workforce Investment Act Program Director/Youth Director
jessica.james@indiancenterinc.org
Enrolled Pyramid Lake Paiute (NV) and raised on the Shoshone-Bannock Indian Reservation (ID), Ms. James has an A.A. in Liberal Arts and a B.A in American Indian Studies from Haskell Indian Nations University and a Master's Degree in Indigenous Nations Studies from The University of Kansas prior to her joining us at the Indian Center. She also serves as the Native American Partner on the Greater Nebraska Workforce Board and Greater Lincoln Workforce Investment Board. Ms. James also was recently appointed to serve as a Council member on the U.S. Department of Labor's Native American Employment and Training Council by Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis in July of 2010.
Ashley Denney
WIA Intake Specialist/Administrative Assistant
NotAvailable@email.com
Ashley is serving a temporary role in the WIA program supporting the work of Jessica James. Enrolled Santee Sioux and also part Omaha, she has an Office Assistant certificate and will head to Haskell Indian Nations University in January 2011 to pursue a Bachelor's degree in American Indian Studies.
Teresa Gatewood
Senior Diners Assistance
NotAvailable@email.com
Ms. Gatewood is a Navajo elder and helps out with Senior Diner kitchen functions such as set-up and organization.