Peggy is a seasoned Executive Assistant with over 25 years in the field. She has experience in strategic planning, organizational planning, business accounting, program development, employee supervision, developing personnel policies and financial procedures, and has developed standard operating procedures for business and accounting positions. She has been responsible for planning and organizing large conferences and conventions (over five hundred people) as well as retreats, meetings, and special events.

Peggy previously served as the Climate Change Project Coordinator for the Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians – a consortium of over fifty northwest Tribes. Peggy helped develop and build the Climate Change program over seven years with the goal to build tribal capacity and educate and inform elected tribal leaders on climate change issues and impacts. Peggy helped develop proposals, secured grants, and managed over $10M of BIA, EPA, and foundation grants over seven years.

Prior to ATNI, Peggy served as the Program Coordinator for the Institute for Tribal Government at Portland State University where she helped develop and coordinate regional and national tribal leadership trainings including the Certificate in Tribal Relations program training state, federal, city, county, and non-profit organizations in understanding tribal history, tribal sovereignty, tribal government operations, and how to effectively build partnerships and intergovernmental relations with regional tribal governments.

Peggy also served as the Executive Assistant to the CEO for the Warm Springs Tribal economic development cooperation, Warm Springs Ventures, where she assisted the CEO in overseeing and managing nine (9) existing enterprises as well as completion of the first tribal carbon sequestration project for an Oregon tribe which generated revenues of more than $25M.

Peggy spent five years as an Executive Assistant, working for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, overseeing five Board of Trustees administrative staff and providing administrative support to the Executive staff and a nine-member Board of Trustees.

Between she and her husband Don, they have six children and seven grandchildren, and one great grandchild. Life is very busy outside of work hours, cheering on grandchildren at every sporting event and spending as much time with them as possible. Her true loves are her family, cooking, and spending time in the Wallowa Mountains of Oregon.

Peggy has a B.A. in Business Administration with a Minor in Psychology from Eastern Oregon University.