Alumni Making a Difference in their Communities
Alumni Leaders
Paulette Fairbanks Molin '66, PhD
- White Earth Band of Ojibwe
- Majors: English, French
- Morris's first American Indian graduate
- 2005 UMM Distinguished Alumni Award recipient
- PhD from University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Independent Scholar/Former Assistant Dean of the Graduate College and Director, American Indian Educational Opportunity Program, at Hampton University in Virginia
Molin is an educator and writer whose books include American Indian Themes in Young Adult Literature (Scarecrow Press, 2005) and The Extraordinary Book of Native American Lists (coauthored with Arlene Hirschfelder, Scarecrow Press, 2012).
Teresa Peterson '91, EdD
- Upper Sioux Community
- Majors: liberal arts for the human services
- EdD from the University of Minnesota, Duluth
- MS from Southwest State University
- Bush Fellow
- Founding Director of Dakota Wicohan
- 2017 UMM Distinguished Alumni Award recipient
Dean Parisian '76
- White Earth Chippewa/Ojibwe
- Majors: economics, social science, secondary education
- Founder/chief investment officer, Chippewa Partners Native American Advisors, Inc.
Rondell Reid LeBeau II '02
- Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
- Major: political science
- 2001 Harry S. Truman Scholar
- 2005 Cum Laude Graduate of University of Minnesota Law School
- Jacobson Buffalo Magnuson, Anderson & Hagen, attorney and lobbyist representing tribes in Minnesota and South Dakota
Jill Doerfler '01, PhD
- White Earth Anishinaabe
- Majors: American Indian studies, history
- Department Head of American Indian studies, University of Minnesota, Duluth
- Coauthor with Gerald Vizenor, The White Earth Nation: Ratification of a New Democratic Constitution
Larry Traversie '00
- Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe
- Major: speech communication
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Partnership manager, Positive Coaching Alliance MN Chapter
- President, University of Minnesota, Morris Alumni Association Board of Directors