{"id":3551,"date":"2021-08-23T08:24:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-23T15:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/?p=3551"},"modified":"2021-08-23T08:24:44","modified_gmt":"2021-08-23T15:24:44","slug":"recast-welcome-kara-briggs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/2021\/08\/recast-welcome-kara-briggs\/","title":{"rendered":"Recast | Welcome Kara Briggs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a><strong>From: <\/strong><\/a>&#8220;Carmichael, John&#8221; &lt;CarmichJ@evergreen.edu&gt;<br><strong>Date: <\/strong>Wednesday, August 18, 2021 at 6:38 AM<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To:&nbsp; All Staff &amp; Faculty<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m pleased to share that Kara Briggs has joined us as interim Vice President for Tribal Relations, Arts, and Cultures.&nbsp; Kara&nbsp;is a 2010 graduate of Evergreen\u2019s MPA program with a concentration in tribal governance.&nbsp; She began her career as a journalist, serving as staff writer, investigative reporter and columnist at the <em>Spokesman-Review<\/em>, <em>Indian Country Today<\/em>, and the <em>Oregonian<\/em>.&nbsp;&nbsp;She spent five years with the Smithsonian\u2019s National Museum of the American Indian, focusing the museum\u2019s fund development and communications on its educational mission.&nbsp;&nbsp;She served as president of the Native American Journalists Association, UNITY: Journalists of Color, and the Center for Women and Democracy.&nbsp;&nbsp;More recently, she served as the tribal liaison for Washington\u2019s state\u2019s Department of Revenue, helping to negotiate the state\u2019s recent tax compact with the tribes, and as government relations director for the Sauk-Suiattle tribe, where she is enrolled.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her role at Evergreen, Kara will be a member of the senior leadership team, supervise the managing director of the Longhouse, coordinate the college\u2019s reciprocal relationships with tribes, and steward a portfolio of foundation and donor relationships.&nbsp; The position is funded through a combination of foundation and state funds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;John<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Carmichael, PhD<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Interim President<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Evergreen State College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From: &#8220;Carmichael, John&#8221; &lt;CarmichJ@evergreen.edu&gt;Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2021 at 6:38 AM To:&nbsp; All Staff &amp; Faculty I\u2019m pleased to share&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4996,"featured_media":1714,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4996"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3552,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions\/3552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}