GUIDANCE
Making space to honor our Elders who have guided us through our lives and the PANCF organization.
Meet the Team
Renea Perry
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Renea Perry, Tlingit/Inupiat/North European is of the Raven moiety and Frog clan of Kiks.ádi house (Shattered Glass Herring House) of Sitka, Alaska.
She has 30+ years of project management experience across disciplines which include fashion merchandising, publishing, architecture & design, and hospitality & wellness.
Stephanie R. S. Ironheart
CULTURE PROGRAMING COORDINATOR
Stephanie is a enrolled member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma. She is a wife and mother of three children. She has spent most of her career working with Tribal people by supporting programming in a positive and traditional way. She graduated with her Associates of Science from Northwest Indian College in 2020.
Adrienne Moat
ITECK PROGAMMING COORDINATOR
Adrienne is a descendant of the Quileute nation with Scottish and Irish heritage who grew up in Portland, Oregon. She is an urban Indigenous environmentalist, involved with the canoe family for many years and joined the team in 2024. Adrienne is passionate about plants, ITECK, and equitable green workforce development and education. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking, beading, and learning to weave with a variety of materials. Recently, Adrienne became a Community Health Worker thanks to training provided by the Future Generations Collaborative and the Oregon Health Authority. She is also a certified civil mediator, trained in equitably-informed mediation from UR Higher Selfie, and an alumna of the Oregon LEAD program via the Native American Youth & Family Center. She graduated from Portland State University with a Bachelor's degree in communication studies.
Davineekaht White Elk
PROGRAM ASSISTANT
Davineekaht (They/She/He) re an enrolled member of the Siksika Nation, part of the Blackfoot Confederacy in Alberta, Canada. Ute from the Uncompahgre band in Fort Duchesne, Utah, and Carrizo Comecrudo from southern Texas.
They have over 8 years of experience working with the Portland Indigenous community. They have held a variety of impactful roles in youth education, environmental education, and workforce development. Focusing on empowering young people and fostering a sense of cultural identity and community connection. Their background demonstrates a passionate commitment to social justice, environmental sustainability, and nurturing the next generation of leaders. Davineekaht brings their cultural, ecological, and restoration knowledge. Currently, in their junior year at Portland State University, they are pursuing a Bachelor of Arts degree with a double major in Native American Nation Studies and Environmental Science, along with a certificate in Indigenous Traditional Ecological and Cultural Knowledge.
Hailey Minako Loman
PROGRAM ASSISTANT
Hailey was raised by her hālau hula, Ka Lei Haliʻa O Ka Lokelani, in Beaverton, Oregon. She is an Alakaʻi in her hālau and she has been dancing with them since 2013. Hailey graduated in 2026 with a BA in Environmental Science with a minor in Indigenous Studies from Oregon State University. In addition to working as a program assistant at PANCF, Hailey is also the ʻĀina Intern for KALO Hawaiian Civic Club.
Our Board Members
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Heather Gurko
CHAIRWOMAN
Heather Gurko has a BA in Management and Organizational Leadership at George Fox University. She is currently pursuing her MA in Indigenous Education at Arizona State University. Enrolled Citizen of the Central Council Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska.
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Jackie Semallie
CO-VICE CHAIR
Jackie Semallie, Navajo, works in Early Childhood Education and is a Cultural Keeper for Apple Gate HeadStart.
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Justin Dauphinais
CO-SKIPPER and CO-VICE CHAIR
Justin Dauphinais a proud father of three daughters and one son and an enrolled member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Tribe in North Dakota. Justin grew up on several reservations when young in the Midwest, southwest, and northwest. Justin has a strong sense of his Anishinaabe/Ojibwe/Chippewa culture and traditions that have been passed on to him by his father and many other elders.
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Nathanael Andreini
TREASURER
Nat Andreini serves as PANCF Board Treasurer and has been involved with the community since the 2022 Canoe Awakening. Nat specializes in supporting and advocating for nonprofits and community organizations as a licensed Oregon Real Estate Broker and consultant. In prior roles, he worked extensively in Slovenia, Japan, New York City. Nat is of Omàmiwinini descent with ancestral ties to the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe in Minnesota and the Odanak community in Quebec. Nat is also Italian, Azorean, French, Swedish, and Irish.
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Clifton Bruno
MEMBER
Clifton Bruno has worked with schools, youth and family programs for over 25 years. Sharing Indigenous culture, art, history, ethnobotany, games, first foods and lifeways. Bruno provides Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK), for many educational projects in the Portland Metro Area; with professional consultation and on site education. He frequently works with the Native Gathering Garden at Thomas Cully Park and the Confluence Project. In 2003 the Bruno co founded the Native American Parent Support in Portland, Oregon and then the National Indian Parent Information Center. Both provided training and information to those parenting Native American special needs children. Bruno is a Trainer of Positive Indian Parenting (National Indian Child Welfare Association), Expanding the Circle: Youth Transitioning (University of Minnesota), and Indigenous Games. Clifton is a Wasco Tribal member of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs. A cultural keeper, Traditional Salmon Baker, and Men's Talking Circle Facilitator.
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Jill Shepard Erickson
AT LARGE BOARD MEMBER
Jill Shepard Erickson is an enrolled member of the Santee Sioux Tribe of Nebraska, and of the Chugach Native's Association of Alaska. She has earned BS and MSW degrees from Portland State University in Portland Oregon. She retired from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) in 2006. The administration of the Circles of Care grants for tribes, urban Indian programs and tribal colleges and universities to engage community members in designing and evaluating a culturally respectful system of care for children, youth, and families was a primary responsibility at SAMHSA. She previously worked for Indian Health Service from 1983 to 1997 in administrative and direct service positions in Rosebud SD, Albuquerque NM, Pendleton OR, and Phoenix AZ. She currently serves as an At Large Board Member of the Portland All Nations Canoe Family.
