Tina Kuckkahn-Miller

Tina Kuckkahn is the director of Grantmaking for NDN Collective’s Foundation, whose mission is to build the collective power of Indigenous communities through philanthropy. Kuckkahn-Miller served as the founding director of the House of Welcome Longhouse Education and Cultural Center at The Evergreen State College from 1996-2019, before becoming Evergreen’s first vice president of Indigenous Arts, Education and Tribal Relations. Kuckkahn-Miller developed the grantmaking work of the Longhouse, which serves American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian artists in the broader Pacific Northwest. With degrees in education and law from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Kuckkahn-Miller regularly teaches fund development and tribal relations in the Master of Public Administration Program at Evergreen. Kuckkahn-Miller serves on the Indigenous Program Council at the Banff Centre, as well as the Board of Directors for Grantmakers in the Arts. Kuckkahn-Miller serves her tribal community as a board member for the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s Waaswaaganing Living Arts and Cultures Center.