406-444-4527
Director of Tribal Student
Achievement and Relations
Work-Related Duties:
- Tribal Inclusion, Consultation and diversity teachings
- Indian Student Achievement efforts and student holistic support
- Facilitate youth and knowledge keepers for inclusion and guidance
Dr. Brooke Gondara is a citizen of the Tsitsistas/Suhtaio Nation of southeastern Montana and an Oglala Dakota descendent. Dr. Gondara recently left a 25+ year career in higher education administration, primarily in community and tribal colleges in the roles of dean, associate dean, and president in the states of Montana, Oregon, Alaska, and New Mexico. She currently resides on the traditional lands of the Apsáalooke Nation in Huntley with her husband. She is the mother of three adult daughters and the geh'et (grandmother) of three amazing grandchildren. Brooke is a crazy dog lady who is passionately involved in the Rez dog rescue and working with her own pack of rescue Catahoula leopard hounds and pittbulls. She enjoys precious time with family, traveling, cooking, ethnobotany and traditional foods, berry picking, indigenous research and data, and is an avid trivia player who rarely misses Jeopardy or the local Monday night games in Huntley.