Tatewin Means is from the Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota, Oglala Lakota and Inhanktonwan nations in South Dakota. In 2015, Means was sworn in as the Deputy State's Attorney for Oglala Lakota County and a German Marshall Fund Marshall Memorial Fellow. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Stanford University in Environmental Engineering with a minor in Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity, a Master’s of Arts from Oglala Lakota College in Lakota Leadership and Management, and a JD with a concentration in Human Rights Law from the University of Minnesota Law School. Tatewin joined TVCDC as the Executive Director in July 2018.

Get in touch: tatewin@thundervalley.org