BOARD OF DIRECTORS
RONALD HALL, J.D. (CHAIRPERSON)
Ronald Hall is the Director of the Tribal Technical Assistance Program (TTAP) at Colorado State University. He has served in that capacity since 1995. While at the TTAP Ron helped coordinate the National Tribal Road Conference since 1998. He has served on the Executive Board of the National Local Technical Assistance Program Association since 1997 and was the Executive Board’s Chairman for 2002. Mr. Hall also played a key role in creating the Committee on Native American Transportation Issues in the Transportation Research Board, and has been the Chairman of that Committee from 2001‐2007. In addition to administering the TTAP, he provides consulting services as a facilitator/mediator and legal services. Prior to his tenure at the TTAP, Mr. Hall practiced law in private practice for 11 years primarily as general counsel for tribal governments, corporations, and Native American owned businesse. Rnn is also an enrolled member of the The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation.
MARCELA VELASCO, PH.D. (SECRETARY)
LEE SCHARF, M.A.
Lee Scharf worked for the Environmental Protection Agency as a mediator from 1996 until 2006, becoming EPA’s Tribal Mediation Lead. Her Environmental Conflict Resolution Taxonomy and Guide was published by the American Bar Association. Lee is an Associate Fellow at Colorado State University’s Center for Collaborative Conservation in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Lee lived on the Navajo Nation from 1956 through 1959. This experience shaped her view of the world and her work. She has mediated with many tribal nations throughout the United States, knowing that power and colonialism are always issues when non-native dispute resolution processes are used or proposed.
Ms. Scharf is the grandmother of four.
ANNE TAYLOR (TREASURER)
The majority of Anne Taylor’s career has centered on Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Starting out as a software engineer developing GIS systems in the mid-80’s, Anne turned toward the business aspects of the GIS industry in 2004 taking on the role of an Account Manager, working with agriculture, land and natural resources agencies as well as tribal communities across North America, assisting in the implementation of GIS to better serve the land and the many communities who depend on it. She received a B.S. degree in Math from University of Richmond in 1983 and an M.S. in Anatomy/Neurobiology from Colorado State University in 1987.