Experience

Native Forward Scholars Fund

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Executive Officer

  • Mar 2017 - Present



Artwork by Angelique

• Nationally

• Artist

  • Apr 1988 - Present

  Angelique Albert is an award-winning, innovative, artist who inspires individuals and communities as she creates vehicles for cultural preservation through traditional native arts. She is an enrolled member of the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribe. She has spent most of her life on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. As a visionary and motivational leader, Angelique goes beyond traditional arts to empower Natives within Indian country by contributing her cultural knowledge, analytical skills, and philanthropic experience to local and national non-profit organizations. Angelique’s artwork embodies a unique juxtaposition between Native culture and contemporary America as it combines traditional styles and techniques with modern objects. In addition to Angelique preferred medium of beading, this multi-talented artist also excels in the areas of hide tanning, pipe making, birch bark basketry, pine needle basketry, and dance outfit construction. Not only is Angelique’s ancestral heritage both long and rich, but she began creating Native artwork as a young child. With obvious talent, by the age of thirteen she was beading, promoting, and selling her highly demanded works. To uphold this long held family tradition, Angelique has passed on her knowledge and skills to her three children, who create and sell Native artwork as well. Angelique’s talent, training, and mastery of the traditional American Indian arts has won her numerous awards in areas such as traditional art forms, contemporary art forms, clothing, accessories, pipes, beadwork, and dolls. Most notably she has placed at the Santa Fe Indian Market, and Heard Guild Indian Market. She was also selected as one of thirty-eight artists to show at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian Art Exhibit.



Salish Kootenai College

• Higher Education
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Executive Director

  • Oct 2011 - Feb 2017

  In this capacity, I provide executive leadership for an independent non-profit, which provides support to one of the most successful tribal colleges in the United States. Duties include strategic planning, fundraising, fiscal management, marketing, public relations, personnel and program management. Specific duties include endowment management, budgeting, reporting, implement campaigns, cultivation of partnerships, donor relations, solicitations, grant writing, grants management, write and implement policy, and marketing. Additionally, I serve on the Salish Kootenai College Executive Team and spend approximately 15% of my time working with other SKC Administrators to develop sound management decisions. Consolidated financial statements indicate $25 million in annual revenue for the two firms. Salish Kootenai College is a tribally controlled college chartered in 1977 by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. The College is located in Pablo, Montana, in the heart of the Flathead Indian Reservation in the scenic Mission Valley of northwestern Montana. The mission of Salish Kootenai College is to provide quality postsecondary educational opportunities for Native Americans, locally and from throughout the United States. The College will promote community and individual development and perpetuate the cultures of the Confederated Tribes of the Flathead Nation.



Potlatch Fund

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Member Board of Directors

  • May 2016 - Jan 2017

  Our Mission To inspire and build upon the Native tradition of giving and to expand philanthropy within Tribal Nations and Native Communities in the Northwest. About Us From the potlatch to the powwow, building community and sharing wealth has always been apart of Native peoples way of life. Potlatch Fund continues this tradition through grants and leadership development in Tribal communities throughout Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Montana. Our Mission To inspire and build upon the Native tradition of giving and to expand philanthropy within Tribal Nations and Native Communities in the Northwest. About Us From the potlatch to the powwow, building community and sharing wealth has always been apart of Native peoples way of life. Potlatch Fund continues this tradition through grants and leadership development in Tribal communities throughout Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Montana.



S&K Gaming, LLC

• Managing Member, Vice-Chair

  • Jun 2013 - Jun 2015

  Served as Vice-Chair of S&K Gaming, LLC for two years. S&K Gaming is a CSKT Tribal Corporation, which manages two casinos, and two additional properties on the Flathead Indian Reservation. In this capacity I assisted the Business Board with sound business decisions, which produced over $15 million in annual revenue. Additional skills included input on the budgeting, strategic planning, and policy development for this firm. Served as Vice-Chair of S&K Gaming, LLC for two years. S&K Gaming is a CSKT Tribal Corporation, which manages two casinos, and two additional properties on the Flathead Indian Reservation. In this capacity I assisted the Business Board with sound business decisions, which produced over $15 million in annual revenue. Additional skills included input on the budgeting, strategic planning, and policy development for this firm.



Next Seven Group, LLC

• Pablo, MT

• Owner

  • Jan 2013 - Oct 2013

  Next Seven Group, LLC, located in Ronan, MT, is a one-hundred percent Native American, women, owned social enterprise that functions as a culturally competent consulting firm that provides resource development and professional services in Indian country and to governments. This firm does great work in a good way. Our firm is founded on and named after the traditional core value of sustainability. Guided by this principle, we believe in securing the health and well-being of seven generations beyond our own by acting with their interests in mind. Using a social entrepreneurship business model, that is designed to generate social and financial impacts; this firm is a cultural value and economic match for doing business in and around Indian Country. Next Seven Group, LLC provides the technical skills, expertise, and labor needed to get critical social and economic development resources into Indian Country. These services include, but are not limited to, technical writing, planning, studying, training, consulting services to governments, non-profit organizations, and businesses. www.nextsevengroup.com



DiversityWorks

• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Owner

  • May 2009 - Oct 2011

  DiversityWorks is a 100 percent Native American, women owned and operated business consulting firm. This highly specialized, culturally competent company is designed to support tribal economic development by building bridges between business entities and the resources needed to fulfill their highest vision. In addition, this firm supports and promotes businesses, organizations, and government entities who focus on sustainable development efforts to build vibrant tribal economies. With ties in both Native and non-Native communities, DiversityWorks leaders create environments where potential meets opportunity.



American Indian Business Leaders National Office

• Missoula, Montana Area

• Associate Director

  • Jul 2004 - May 2009

  AIBL is the only American Indian non-profit organization solely dedicated to empowering business students in the United States. Our programs are designed to engage students in activities that stimulate, enhance, and expand educational experiences beyond traditional academic methods. All students are encouraged to participate in AIBL regardless of race, academic major, or career objectives. The mission of AIBL is to increase the representation of American Indians and Alaska Natives in business and entrepreneurial ventures through education and leadership development opportunities.



Beaumont Foundation of America

• Beaumont/Port Arthur, Texas Area

• Program Officer

  • Aug 2002 - Jul 2004

  The Beaumont Foundation, created in 2001, is a nonprofit grantmaking institution dedicated to enriching the lives and enhancing the futures of less fortunate children and youth, families and the elderly. The Foundation provides grants and scholarships to a broad range of charitable, religious and educational organizations across the United States. We support organizations that seek to improve lives by giving people the tools to become educated, healthy, and self-reliant through the grantmaking areas of Education, Health Care, Children and Youth Programs, Social Services (Food, Shelter and Clothing) and our Children of Fallen Heroes Program.



Confederated Salish & Kootena Tribe - Probation Department

• Pablo, Mt

• Chief Juvenile Probation Officer

  • Feb 1997 - Aug 2002

  The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are comprised of the Bitterroot Salish, the Pend d’Oreille and the Kootenai tribes. The Flathead Reservation of 1.317 million acres in northwest Montana is our home now but our ancestors lived in the territory now known as western Montana, parts of Idaho, British Columbia and Wyoming. This aboriginal territory exceeded 20 million acres at the time of the 1855 Hellgate Treaty. The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are comprised of the Bitterroot Salish, the Pend d’Oreille and the Kootenai tribes. The Flathead Reservation of 1.317 million acres in northwest Montana is our home now but our ancestors lived in the territory now known as western Montana, parts of Idaho, British Columbia and Wyoming. This aboriginal territory exceeded 20 million acres at the time of the 1855 Hellgate Treaty.