National Tribal Environmental Council

We are very pleased to announce that Ondrea Barber will join the NTEC staff as the Program Coordinator for the National Tribal Air Association (NTAA) on June 1, 2011. In her role as program coordinator, she will be responsible for NTAA program activities, and working closely with the NTAA Executive Committee.

Since its founding in 2002, the National Tribal Air Association has been a leading voice for Tribal air quality issues, programs, and policies. With more than fifty principal member tribes, the NTAA’s mission is to advance air quality management and policies and programs, consistent with the needs, interests, and unique legal status of American Indian tribes and Alaskan Natives.

Ondrea has considerable experience in the tribal environmental arena in several capacities that includes air quality program manager, environmental program coordinator and policy analyst, and seven years of service as the Director of the Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Division, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community. Ondrea has also represented tribal interests at regional and national levels. Her knowledge of tribal air quality issues, experience in working with tribes and the U.S. EPA, and her program management skills have brought her to a leadership role, to promote tribal air program priorities, under the direction of the NTAA Executive Committee, and working effectively with the U.S. EPA and other partners, such as the Institute for Tribal Environmental Professionals.

Ondrea will be based in Phoenix, Arizona where her satellite office is established. We will provide her contact an other necessary information when available.

NTAA is a tribal partnership group funded by the U.S. EPA Office of Air & Radiation. NTEC is recipient of the cooperative agreement, and serves as the fiduciary organization for the NTAA funding. For more information about NTAA. Please visit its website at www.ntaatribalair.org.