Member Education Sessions: Partnership Success Stories

Se-ah-dom Edmo (Shoshone-Bannock, Nez Perce, and Yakama) brings deep experience in community organizing for racial and social justice work across the nation. Prior to joining Seeding Justice, Se-ah-dom served as the Sovereignty Program Director at Western States Center, where she was the coalition convener of Tribal History: Shared History (Senate Bill 13, 2017) in Oregon, which established and funded the teaching of Indian History and Sovereignty in K – 12 schools across the state. Se-ah-dom is also the co-editor of the Tribal Equity Toolkit 3.0: Tribal Resolutions and Codes for Two Spirit and LGBT Justice in Indian Country and American Indian Identity: Citizenship, Membership & Blood. 
 
A hallmark of her career has been fostering relationships and collaborations between tribes and organizations doing social, racial, environmental, and economic justice work across the region. She is an ALF Senior Fellow and a member of the Philanthropy Northwest Board and Oregon Worker Relief Board, and was the chair of the board of Oregon Consumer Justice. 
 
Se-ah-dom joined Seeding Justice in December 2018.

Pearl Gottschalk Lujan is the Storyteller for the Tate Topa Indigenous Women's Flow Fund at The Kindle Project since its inception in 2020. For over 20 years, she has been a passionate activist and front-line funder. She served as the Charitable Giving Manager at Lush Cosmetics, the Grantmaker for the Refugee/Immigration program for the Province of Manitoba and as an Advisor to the Indigenous-Led Mino Niibi Fund at The Cultural Conservancy.

She is passionate about advancing economic sovereignty for Indigenous Nations and recently worked at The Fireweed Institute to develop their Community Wealth Fund for Indigenous Entrepreneurs. She has been a featured speaker at dozens of philanthropy conferences and enjoys listening to and sharing stories across multiple sectors of philanthropy. She holds a Master's Degree in International Dispute Resolution and has lived and worked in many Indigenous communities worldwide. She currently lives, works and plays on the ancestral homelands of the Syilx People of the Okanagan Nation in Penticton, BC.

As Vice President of Administration, Jodie utilizes her strengths of relationship building, systems thinking, and strategic planning to the areas of Administration, Development, Finance, and Human Resources. She is driven by the collective and possesses a zest for life with positive energy and a strengths-based perspective.

Jodie's 20+ year career has included positions in operations, development, finance, human resources, culture building, and project and program management. Jodie holds a bachelor's degree in human development and social relations from Kalamazoo College and a master's degree in social work from Washington University in St. Louis.

Shandiin was born and raised on Diné Bikeyah, filtering through many different towns on the Navajo Nation during her childhood. She currently lives on traditional Ohlone and Esselen lands, now recognized as the Monterey Bay in California.

Her community has guided her professional work, where she has focused on supporting Indigenous-led nonprofits in communication and development roles, working with grassroots organizations like Yee Há’olníi Dóo or larger legacy organizations like the Association on American Indian Affairs.

With a deep appreciation for traveling and learning from new perspectives, she is grateful to have spent three years studying in France for her Bachelor of Arts in journalism and global communications. She continues to freelance as a journalist with work published through Navajo Times, Peacock Plume, and Changing Womxn Collective.

Katie Lynch (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) is a Potawatomi researcher, engineer, and artist, passionate about building Indigenous-led systems of care. She is currently a Ph.D. Student in Health Infrastructures & Learning Systems at the University of Michigan Medical School and she graduated with a degree in Biomedical Engineering from Rutgers University in May 2024.

With experience across federal, non-profit, and corporate policy spaces, Katie brings a multidisciplinary and relational lens to her work. Katie is a researcher studying Indigenous conceptualizations of learning health systems and food sovereignty, with particular interests in place-based healing and collective resurgence as forms of radical hope and vibrant Anishinaabe futurism. Her research centers reciprocity and aims to move science and scholarship towards collective liberation.

Outside of academics, she is a 2025 Champion for Change with the Center for Native American Youth, where she advocates for the inclusion of Native youth voices in governance and decision-making. She believes that Native youth must be in the rooms where decisions are being made, to speak truth to power, and to demand a better world. 

In the future, Katie hopes to pursue a career in academia focused on Indigenous food system restoration as a public health mechanism. She finds strength in community, collectivity, and the power of Indigenous people to exist in spaces designed to resist them. Her long-term professional goal, in simple terms, is to give back to her Indigenous community and make a difference in the lives of Indigenous people around the country and world.