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2010 Overcoming Racism Conference Keynote Speakers


Winona LaDuke

Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe) is an internationally acclaimed author, orator and activist. A graduate of Harvard and Antioch Universities with advanced degrees in rural economic development, LaDuke has devoted her life to protecting the lands and life ways of Native communities. In 1994, Time magazine named her one of America’s fifty most promising leaders under forty years of age, and in 1997 she was named Ms. Magazine Woman of the Year. She is also the Founding Director of the White Earth Land Recovery Project, a reservation based non-profit devoted to restoring the land-base and culture of the White Earth Anishinaabeg. She helped found Honor the Earth in 1993 and has served in a leadership position since the organization’s inception.


Eddie Moore, Jr., PhD

Dr. Moore currently serves as Director of Diversity at The Bush School in Seattle, WA. He earned his Ph.D. in Education: Social Foundations from the University of Iowa. His dissertation research topic: The Educational Experiences of African-American Football Players at Small Colleges in the Midwest. Eddie is an ex-student-athlete and remains committed to the influence of athletics and academics in the lives of all students. Eddie is a dynamic and personable diversity consultant and public speaker. Dr. Moore has also been a workshop presenter/facilitator and trainer for various organizations and at national/international conferences concerned with Education, Diversity, Privilege and Leadership. Eddie’s presentations are interactive, fun, challenging, and motivating. www.eddiemoorejr.com


Rev. John E. Robertson

The Rev. John Robertson (Dakota) is an Episcopal priest, Vicar of the Bishop Whipple Mission/Lower Sioux, Morton, MN. He blogs here. John Robertson is a member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate, Lake Traverse Reservation. He has spent most of his life near the Minnesota River being raised at the headwaters, Big Stone Lake. His adult life has been at “where they paint the trees red”, near Morton, MN. He attended college near the confluence of the Minnesota River and the Mississippi River, St. Paul, and at the “bend in the river”, Mankato. His time away from the Minnesota River and its tributaries included international travel provided by the United States military to Korea; graduate school on Lake Michigan the ancestral sacred waters of the Dakota in Evanston, IL; and the place of colonialism personified, New York City as an executive of a national non-profit called the Episcopal Church. John has one degree or diploma; has written no books or articles; has no organizational credits; or anything else that matters to the institutional world. He does have years of sitting around kitchen tables, fires, many circles of friends and relatives listening to and participating in the discussions of “the people'.



Dr. Antony Stately, PhD

Antony Stately, PhD (Ojibwe/Oneida) received his Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Alliant International University in 1997. Currently, he lives in Minnesota with his partner and twin sons, Chaske and Cuauhtli, and he is the Director of Mental Health, Chemical Health and Employee Assistance Programs at the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community. Previously, he worked at the University of Washington-Seattle, where he was Director of the Center for Translational Research at the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute. He has taught in clinical graduate programs at UW School of Social Work, Antioch University-Seattle, Phillips Graduate Institute, CSPP/Alliant University-Los Angeles, Antioch University-Los Angeles, and Loyola Marymount University.

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