Executive Leadership
Valentin Lopez, President
Valentin Lopez has served as Chair of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band since 2003, and the President of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust since its inception. Valentin is a Native American Advisor to the University of California, Office of the President on issues related to repatriation. He is also a Native American Advisor to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and the Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology. Valentin is actively involved in efforts to restore tribal indigenous knowledge and ensure our history is accurately told.
Board of Directors
Valentin Lopez, President. Chair of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band.
Julie Pineida, Treasurer. Tribal member of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band.
Ed Ketchum. Tribal member, Tribal Historian and Vice Chair for the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band.
Catherine Luna. Tribal member of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and Tribal Elder.
Millie Bravo-Garris. Tribal Council Member of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band.
Steve Abbors. Former General Manager of the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District.
Staff
Lisa Carrier. (Tribal Member), Director of Operations.
Rob Cuthrell. Director of Native Plant Stewardship.
Angelo Espinosa. (Tribal Member), Accountant/Bookkeeper.
Sara French. Director of Development.
Athena Hernandez. (Tribal Member), General Counsel.
Teresa Valles. (Tribal Member) Operations Coordinator.
Research Associates
Rob Cuthrell, Ph.D. Director of Archaeological Resource Management for the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band and post-doctoral scholar in Archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Rick Flores, M.A. Traditional Resource Management Specialist and Steward of the Amah Mutsun Relearning Program, University of California, Santa Cruz Arboretum.
Sara French, M.S. Tribal Ethnobotanist for the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band.