Tina Merdanian

Tina Merdanian, a citizen of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, is Director of Institutional Relations at Red Cloud Indian School. She has a bachelor’s degree in business administration and an associate’s degree in accounting, both from Oglala Lakota College. Merdanian currently shares her time in the capacity of lead consultant of marketing and development for Native Discovery, a partnership with the development organizations of South Dakota’s three largest reservations -- Cheyenne River, Pine Ridge and Rosebud -- as they work together to stimulate the largely untapped culturally based tourism economy. [Source: The Bush Foundation]