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Jan. 19 , 2007

Nicole Adams Selected to Direct Center for Native Education 

Seattle – The Center for Native Education at Antioch University Seattle has named Nicole Adams as its new director. Adams will manage the Center's media and communications, develop a national network of Early Colleges for Native Youth, secure funding, assist with organizational development and long-term planning, and collect and synthesize data.

“As a member of the Colville Confederated Tribes, I have dedicated my career to redefining Indian education to better serve Native people,” says Adams, adding, “I am humbled and also invigorated to join the Center for Native Education.  It’s an honor to contribute to the dynamic work the Center is doing throughout Indian Country.”

Adams has worked in Indian education, both at the K-12 and postsecondary levels. Most recently, she was director of public education and communications at the American Indian College Fund in Denver, where she supervised a national advertising campaign that reached more than 55 million readers.

Adams also worked as assistant director at the University of Colorado's Upward Bound program, specialist for Portland Public Schools' Indian Education Project and education specialist for the Puget Sound Educational Service District. Since 2001, she has served as a contributing editor at Winds of Change magazine. Adams received a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an Ed.M. from Harvard Graduate School of Education.

“My family and culture are in the Northwest and it was time for me to come home,” she says.

About the Center for Native Education

Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in partnership with the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, the Center for Native Education funds and supports the development of Early Colleges that blend high school, college and Native culture to create culturally harmonious, academically rigorous high schools for Native American students. Early Colleges provide students the opportunity to earn college credits while attaining a high school diploma.  With support from Lumina Foundation for Education, the Center is further improving postsecondary access across multiple generations. Through its work with school districts, colleges and tribes, the Center aims to make success in postsecondary education the norm among Native people.

About Antioch
At Antioch University Seattle, adult learners find innovative, individualized programs with a commitment not only to academic excellence, but also to community service and social justice. Antioch is an accredited university in downtown Seattle. You’ll find numerous master’s degrees, a B.A. completion program in liberal studies, a doctorate in clinical psychology plus teaching and other certificates.

Antioch Seattle is one of six campuses of Antioch University, founded in 1852 in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Horace Mann, noted abolitionist and first president of Antioch College, gave a charge to the class of 1859 that is repeated to each Antioch graduating class: "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”

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