He has been chairman emeritus and a director at F&M bank in central Oklahoma since 2011, and has served in various capacities with the financial institution since purchasing it in 1972.
Citizen Potawatomi Nation tribal member Jonathan LeClair won two Native American Journalists Association awards for his work as a multimedia content producer at the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
For Cherokee Nation citizen and Citizen Potawatomi Nation Audio Visual Production Coordinator Jessica McQueen, sharing stories through visual mediums is at the heart of her career.
Longtime Tribal employee and current Director of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation Self-Governance Department, Kasie Nichols was honored in October at the Journal Record’s Woman of the Year reception.
Tribal member Stacy Braiuca focuses each day of the week on something different. She recently rebranded Braiuca Enterprises LLC, and her business now ties all her passions together in a comfortable space: her home office.
CPN won the Government Finance Officers Association’s Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting in 2018, earning the award three decades straight.
Public Information Department employee and Tribal member Trey DeLonais has been behind the controls of the Nation’s drone since its first flight.
In 2018, four Citizen Potawatomi Nation employees from different departments won the Oklahoma NextGen Under 30 program’s 30 Under 30 leadership award.
Tribal member Amy Sunday owns and operates her own veterinary practice in Holton, Kansas, after deciding to pursue a rural lifestyle following college.
Ashley Chittum began working for the Tribe over a decade ago as a FireLake Discount Foods grocery bagger, recently transferring to the Tribal administrative accounting department.