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Steve Sumida, MA. JD.
STEVEN E. SUMIDA, BS, MA, JD, Program Director/Acting COO,
Pribilof Aleuts, Inc. 615 E. 82nd Avenue, Suite 200, Anchorage, Alaska 99518-3159
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EDUCATION
Juris Doctor, 1987, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY
Master of Arts, Rural Development, 2006, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK
Bachelor of Science, Social Justice, 1983 (Honors), Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
WORK EXPERIENCE
04/09 – Present Program Director/Acting Chief Operating Officer, Pribilof Aleuts, Inc.,
/Director of Grants, Tanadgusix Corp., Anchorage, Alaska
o Grant Administration, and program management.
06/08 – 04/09 Attorney Gorton, Logue & Graper, P.C., Anchorage, AK
o Criminal defense trial attorney, Wellness Court team.
12/07- 04/09 Sumida Consulting Services LLC, Anchorage, AK
o Provided consulting services to Alaska and Native organizations.
6/04 – 11/07 Executive Director Alaska Inter-Tribal Council, Anchorage, AK
o Statewide tribal issue advocacy, environmental justice, traditional governance.
1/04 – 6/04 Restorative Justice Director, Alaska Native Justice Center, Anchorage, AK
o Managed OJP Rural justice grant implementation in Alaska villages.
1/00 – 12/03 Grants Division Manager, North Slope Borough Mayors Office;
o Created a Grants Division within the Mayor’s Office and increased NSB annual grants from $34 million to $100 million in 3 years.
o Established programs to train tribal and municipal governments in capacity building.
5/98 – 1/00 Executive Director, Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope IRA
o Raised ICAS from federal funding suspension to an organization with 2 federal contracts, 2 federal grants, an NSB grant, an active gaming program, and 12 employees.
o Created tribal court process, government to government relations protocols.
1/97 – 5/98 Assistant Borough Attorney, North Slope Borough, Barrow, AK
o Responsible for the departments of Planning, Capital Improvement Project Management, Municipal Services, and Wildlife, and for the Inupiat History and Language Commission. Established Inupiaq interpreter process.
o Represented NSB in state court, and represented individual Inupiat Eskimos in NSB funded Administrative action for research related failure of informed consent.
o 12/95-1/97 Staff Attorney, Alaska Legal Services Corporation, Barrow, AK
o Emphasized elder’s issues including native allotments, restricted townsite lots, landlord/tenant, easements, prior existing rights, wills, elder health, and cultural issues.
o Created tools for tribes to use in addressing legal and social problems in remote villages utilizing traditional culture.
5/92 – 11/95 Attorney, Fortier and Mikko, P.C., Anchorage, AK
o Valdez Oil Spill litigation, plaintiff state ANCSA land claims, subsistence and culture claims.
o Personal injury, wrongful death, FTCA tort and federal CJA criminal litigation.
7/90 – 5/92 Attorney, Law Offices of John C. Pharr, Anchorage, AK
o Primarily felony criminal defense, occasional civil, contract and family law cases.
5/87 – 7/90 Steven E. Sumida, Attorney Sole Practitioner, Laramie, WY
o WY Supreme Court Criminal Appeals, Oil and gas, realty and legal research services to out of state and rural attorneys.
o Intern Wyoming Attorney General Office, Criminal Division Criminal Appeals
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Wyoming State Bar Association since 1987
USDC & Bankruptcy Court Wyoming since 1987
Alaska State Bar Association since 1988
USDC & Bankruptcy Court Alaska since 1988
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 1995
United States Supreme Court since 1998
COMMISSIONS, BOARDS AND ASSOCIATIONS
Representative for Indigenous Peoples of the United States of America, Commission for Environmental Cooperation(CEC), North American Regional Action Plan, Lindane, (NAFTA working group) 2006-2007, Montreal, Canada and Mexico City, Mexico
AITC legal delegate workgroup creating the Secretaria Internacional de los Pueblos Indigenas, November 2007, Caracas, Venezuela.
Board member, Forum on State and Tribal Toxics Action, 2007
Board Tribal Representative, Department of Defense Statement of Cooperation, 2007
Executive Committee Member, Tribal Pesticide Program Council, 2007
Member, Natural Resource Damage Assessment Committee, 2007
Board Member, Alaska Tribal Technical Assistance Working Group, 2007
AITC legal delegate on the Continental working group on the Declaration on the rights of Indigenous peoples, La Paz, Bolivia October 2006,
Board member, Renewable Energy Assistance Program 2005
Board member, Alaska Forum on the Environment Training Committee 2005
PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS & AWARDS
Cost principles: OMB Circulars A-21, A-122, A-87 and FAR 31.2
Managing Federal Grants and Cooperative Agreements for Recipients Uniform Administrative Requirements: OMB Circulars A-102 and A-110
Applying for Federal Grants and Cooperative Agreements Managing Federal Grants and Cooperative Agreements for Recipients
National College of District Attorneys “Government Civil Practice Course”
National Judicial College “Tribal Faculty Development Workshop”
National Criminal Justice Association Award, 2011 Outstanding Criminal Justice Program Tribal
Office of the Chief Financial Officer, OJP/USDOJ, Financial Management Certificate 2011
SELECTED PUBLIC SPEAKING PRESENTATIONS
Understanding Alaska Native and Rural Organizations, Alaska Native Cultural Communications, Alaskan Command, Department of Defense, Elmendorf, January, 2008
Native orientation briefing on Alaska Native justice issues to Nelson Cohen, United States Attorney for the District of Alaska; Anchorage, AK August 2007
Tribal Communities and the Environment: Unique Scenarios of Exposure, Tribal Lifeline Panel Presentation, 15th Annual Conference of the International Society of Exposure Analysis, Tucson, Arizona November 2005
Introduction: Working Effectively with Tribal Governments, EPA new employee Welcoming workshop, Anchorage, AK November 2005;
Alaska Rural Native Organizations, AK Native Community Course, Alaskan Command Elmendorf AFB, September, 2005
Traditional Governance Structure, training delivered onsite in over 50 rural Alaska communities, Circuit Rider Trainer and Technical Provider, EPA IGAP Grant 2005-2007
Inupiaq Juvenile Justice: Is there a DV application, 8th International Conference on Family Violence, San Diego, California, 2003.
Federal Indian Policy in Alaska University of Hawaii Law School, Honolulu Hawaii, September 2005
Lasting Consequences of Land Settlement Acts and their cultural impacts Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, March 2007
Organizer/Presenter: Alaska Climate Change Panel, National Tribal Environmental Council 12th Annual Conference, Albuquerque, NM April, 2007
SELECTED TRADITIONAL JUSTICE MODEL PROJECT PRESENTATIONS
Gates Hall, University of Washington, Law School, Seattle, WA.
Nez Perce Longhouse (Colville II), Traditional Justice Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Nespelem, WA., November 2011.
Oglala Sioux Tribe, Traditional Justice Prairie Wind Casino, Pine Ridge, SD, September 2011
Nespelem Longhouse (Colville I), Traditional Justice Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Nespelem, WA., June 2011.
Traditional Council Native Village of Hooper Bay (HPBIII), Workshop TJ and Domestic Violence Hooper Bay, AK, September 2011
Nunakauyarmiut Tribe, Traditional Justice Toksook Bay, AK September 2011
National Criminal Justice Association 2011 National Forum, Tradition-based Strategies for Native Justice Newark, New Jersey, August 2011.
Traditional Council Native Village of Hooper Bay (HPBII), TJ Implementation Hooper Bay, AK, June 2011
Newtok Community Hall, Traditional Justice Newtok, AK June 211.
Traditional Council Native Village of Hooper Bay (HPBI), Traditional Justice Hooper Bay, AK, May 2011, Alaska Native Traditional Justice Albuquerque, NM April, 2011.
Association of Village Council Presidents, Regional Tribal Court Development Training, Traditional Values Systems, Traditional Elder Youth Justice (2 sessions), Bethel, AK March 2011
Native Village of Gambell, Traditional Justice St. Lawrence Island, AK, February 2011.
Native Village of Savoonga, Traditional Justice St. Lawrence Island, AK, February 2011.
Kipnuk Traditional Council, Traditional Justice Kipnuk, AK, February 2011
Kongiganak Traditional Council, Traditional Justice Kongiganak, AK, January 2011
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Disclaimer This project was supported by Grant No. 2010-IC-BX-K011 awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance to Pribilof Aleuts, Inc, the nonprofit arm of Tanadgusix Corporation with a National Native focus. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the SMART Office, and the Office for Victims of Crime. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author, Steven E. Sumida MA, JD and do not represent the official position or policies of the United States Department of Justice.
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