Mitchell Berg, a clinical assistant professor at the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, has been invited by the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development (NCAIED) to speak at the Reservation Economic Summit, or RES 2024, March 11-14 in Las Vegas.
Berg, alongside Jessica Burghart from the Prairie Band Potawatomi and Margaret Rose Ellis from the Oneida Nation, will deliver a presentation, “Promoting a Tribal Citizen Entrepreneurial Ecosystem for the betterment of a Tribal Community and Economy,” focused on the role that Tribal Citizen entrepreneurs have in strengthening one’s tribal community and economy.
“Understanding the problems that tribal citizen entrepreneurs face in starting up a business within a tribal community is the first step before one can craft and develop a program to better assist them,” Berg said. “The session’s purpose is targeted toward tribal leaders and staff interested in supporting and cultivating their tribal members to become entrepreneurs to better their communities.
Prior to arriving at the O’Neill School, Berg was a practicing City Administrator for eight years with the City of Mahnomen, MN, a city located entirely within the boundary of the White Earth Nation. As a city administrator, and later an associate director with the University of Minnesota Crookston campus, Berg worked closely with the White Earth Nation, along with the other tribal nations in Minnesota on several different community and economic development initiatives.
Burghart is currently a doctoral candidate at Waldron University and is a professor of business at Haskell Indian Nations University. Rose Ellis is a doctoral student at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay and is the co-founder of She Rises Collective: Indigenous Women in business.
NCAIED has been helping tribal nations and businesses gain access to opportunity and growth for more than 50 years. As the largest national Indian specific business organization in the nation, RES2024 is the premier economic development conference for tribal nations throughout the United States.
RES2024 will include the attendance of respected American Indian tribal leaders; federal, state, and local political leaders; top corporate and tribal CEOs; American Indian business owners; and economic development leaders from across North America.
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