Full Name
Vanessa Roanhorse
Title
CEO
Company
Roanhorse Consulting, LLC
Speaker Bio
Vanessa Roanhorse is the CEO of Roanhorse Consulting, LLC an Indigenous-led social enterprise that purposefully works to change power dynamics in health and economic systems to build a world in which our children and grandchildren will thrive. She sits on the boards of Delta Institute, Seven Fires, Potlikker Capital and is an advisor to the Ecosystem Building Leadership Network, Decolonizing Wealth, and Sandia Lab’s Department of Energy's BOOST initiative. Vanessa is a 2022 Miss Porter’s School Donaldson Awardee, a 2021 Paypal Maggie Lena Walker’s Emerging Leader Awardee, and a 2020 Conscious Company Media’s World Changing Woman in Sustainable Business Awardee. Vanessa is the founder of Roanhorse Consulting, a founding member of Zebras Unite, a co-founder of Native Women Lead, and a co-founder of the Rematriating Economies Apprenticeship. She is a citizen of the Navajo Nation and resides in unceded Tiwa territory with her partner and 10-year-old son.
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