Chapel – Vance Blackfox ‘99 (Cherokee), ELCA- Native American Heritage Month

Vance is the founder and director of Other+Wise, a multi-site cultural education and cultural immersion program for youth and student groups from across the country. He has also served as the Director of Communications at the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, as the Director of Communications for Native Americans in Philanthropy and has held executive director positions at the Haskell Foundation, which supports Haskell Indian Nations University, and the Oaks Indian Mission. He presently serves as is the Director of Indigenous Ministries and Tribal Relations of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is the creator and producer of the Vine Deloria, Jr. Theological Symposium at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, and serves on the board of directors for the Charter for Compassion.