Jacqueline Johnson Pata is the AHS keynote speaker. She is the Executive Director of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) and Sealaska Board Member. She is a member of the Raven/Sockeye Clan of the Tlingit Tribe and a member of the Central Council of the Tlingit-Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. Pata was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Native American Programs of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) during the Clinton Administration.