Friday, June 1—10:30 a.m.–noon
Carrie Billy
Minority Serving Higher Education Community's
Most-Pressing Challenges for the Next Decade
 Carrie Billy is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and attorney from Arizona. She joined the staff of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC) for the second time in 2001. As President and Chief Executive Officer of AIHEC, which is comprised of 36 Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) in the United States and one in Canada, Carrie guides the day‐to‐day operations of the AIHEC central organization and works closely with AIHEC’s Board of Directors to develop and implement AIHEC strategic vision and overall organizational action plan.
Between her two terms at AIHEC, Carrie served as the first Executive Director of the White House Initiative of Tribal Colleges and Universities. She was appointed to that position by former President William J. Clinton in 1998, pursuant Executive Order 13021. As Executive Director of the Initiative, Carrie coordinated a multi‐faceted effort to integrate tribal colleges into federal programs and strengthen partnerships with the private sector. During her tenure as director, tribal colleges achieved tremendous gains.
Carrie is a graduate of the University of Arizona and the Georgetown University Law Center.
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