Dr. Audrey R. Alvarado was appointed Executive Director of National Council of Nonprofit Associations in July of 1999. Prior to her appointment, Audrey served as the associate dean for student and external affairs at the University of Colorado at Denver, Graduate School of Public Affairs. Among her other duties, she oversaw the nonprofit management academic areas for both master's and doctoral students.

Previous positions include: Executive Director of the Latin American Research and Service Agency in Denver, Colorado, and Program Director of the Hispanic Office of Planning and Evaluation's Talent Search program in Boston, Massachusetts. Audrey has extensive experience as a board member, having been a founding board member and chair of the Colorado Association of Nonprofit Organizations and chair of the National Council of La Raza. She has also served as a trustee of Regis University and on the boards of Rocky Mountain PBS and the Western Interstate Commission on Higher Education. Audrey received her bachelor's degree from the University of the Pacific and her Master's and Doctorate degrees from the University of Utah.

Sherry Salway Black, a member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe, has over 27 years experience working with Indian people and Indian issues. She currently serves as the Senior Vice President of First Nations Development Institute, a position she has held for eighteen years. First Nations goal is to improve the ability of Native communities to control assets to build wealth in a way that recognizes Native knowledge and culture, is sustainable and is developed from within. Her experience covers philanthropy, health care planning and administration, business and financial management in both the private, public and governmental sectors, and economic development and policy formulation.

Prior to joining First Nations, Ms. Black worked with the Indian Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services and the American Indian Policy Review Commission with the Task Force on Indian Alcoholism and Alcohol Abuse. Ms. Black has a Master's Degree in Business Administration from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.

Ms. Black currently serves on the Boards of the Hitachi Foundation, First Nations Development Institute, First Nations Oweesta Corporation, American Indian Business Leaders, Council on Foundations, Trillium Asset Management Corporation, and the Hopi Education Endowment fund. Ms. Black also serves on the advisory boards of "Honoring Contributions in the Governance of American Indian Nations" of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, the National Museum of the American Indian and the Kathryn M. Buder Center for American Indian Studies, George Warren Brown School of Social Work, Washington University. Ms. Black is a former member of the Health and Research Subcommittee of the EPA's National Environmental Justice Advisory Committee, Bank of America's Rural 2000 Initiative advisory board and she served on the Regional Coordinating Committee for the American Indian Headstart Program. Ms. Black is a past board director of Native Americans in Philanthropy, the National Rural Development and Finance Corporation, Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies, Women and Philanthropy, and the National Community Reinvestment Coalition.

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