Norbert Hill & Megan

Norbert S. Hill, Jr. is an enrolled citizen of the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and an elected member of the Oneida Nation Trust and Enrollment Committee. He retired in 2020 as Area Director of Education and Training for the Nation. Hill’s previous appointment was Vice President of the College of Menominee Nation for their Green Bay campus. Hill served as the executive director of the American Indian Graduate Center (AIGC) in New Mexico, a nonprofit organization providing funding for American Indians and Alaska Natives to pursue graduate and professional degrees. Previous positions include: serving nearly 20 years as executive director of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, assistant dean of students at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay, and director of the American Indian Educational Opportunity Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He founded Winds of Change and The American Indian Graduate, magazine publications of AISES and AIGC respectively. Hill holds two honorary doctorates from Clarkson University (1996) and Cumberland College (1994) and was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Action Council for Minorites in Engineering (1989).   Hill is the Chairman of the Rosa Minoka Hill Foundation and serves on the board of the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. Past board appointments include Environmental Defense Fund, chair and board member of the Smithsonian Museum of the American Indian, and the Wisconsin Historical Society.  Today he resides on the Oneida reservation with his wife.  

Megan is the Senior Director of the Project on Indigenous Governance and Development and the Director of the Honoring Nations program at the Harvard Kennedy School. The core mission of the Project is to arm Indigenous people with the tools needed to (re)build their nations and govern effectively through research, teaching, leadership development, policy analysis, and pro bono advising for and with Native nations and communities. Its flagship program, Honoring Nations, is a national awards program that identifies, celebrates, and shares outstanding examples of tribal governance. Founded in 1998, the awards program spotlights tribal government programs and initiatives that are especially effective in addressing critical concerns and challenges facing the more than 570 Indian nations and their citizens.

Megan currently serves on the boards of the Native Governance Center, the MASS Design Group, and the Dr. Rosa Minoka Hill Fund. She is active within the Harvard community and is a member of the NAGPRA Advisory Committee for the Peabody Museum. Previously, she worked as Director of Development at both the University of New Mexico and Arizona State University and as a Senior Program Officer for the Institute of American Indian Arts. 

Megan graduated from the University of Chicago with a Master of Arts Degree in the Social Sciences and earned a Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs and Economics from the University of Colorado, Boulder.