This year we are celebrating our 20th anniversary as a company, and we started a campaign to highlight all of our clients’ success over the last two decades. (Learn more about the campaign here.) While in Las Vegas for the Reservation Economic Summit (RES), hosted by the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development, we decided to ask attendees to share what #20YearsEquals to them. We want to share success stories from all over Indian Country. We had awesome participation. People shared stories about business success, community growth, meeting personal goals, and overcoming obstacles.
Here are a few from the conference:
#20YearsEquals: marriage, five kids, land surveyor, own my own home. –Marvin Murphy, board member, Navajo Housing Authority
#20YearsEquals: biggest solar project in Indian Country. –Gregory Tanderson Sr., vice chairman, Moapa Band of Paiute
#20YearsEquals: building our village into a city. –Loretta Nelson, chairperson, Native Village of Afognak
#20YearsEquals: three successful business ventures. –Shelly Bailey, tribal council treasure, Saginaw Chippewa Tribe
#20YearsEquals: graduating from law school and passing the bar exam. –Jacob Wamego, business development manager, Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation
#20YearsEquals: economic development! –Jose Haranjo, SCDC board member, Santa Clara Pueblo
#20YearsEquals: exponential cultural growth and development. Quyanaa! –Dehrich Schmidt-Chya, dancer, Koniag Inc.
#20YearsEquals: education, improved infrastructure and telemedicine. –Dominic Pruitt, board of directors chairman for San Ildefonso Pueblo Enterprise Corporation, Pueblo of Laguna
#20YearsEquals: cancer survivor, grandchildren, marriage and moving back to my homelands. –Jereaux Sanders, cultural center, Comanche Nation
We’ll be sharing more #20YearsEquals stories from RES attendees through our social media channels. Feeling left out? Don’t — join the #20YearsEquals celebration!