Jill Sherman-Warne is an elected Tribal Councilmember of the Hoopa Valley Tribe. She also served as a Tribal Councilmember 1995-1997. Ms. Sherman-Warne is also the Executive Director of the Native American Environmental Protection Coalition (NAEPC). She regularly works with 28 tribes throughout California, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. She graduated from Humboldt State and built her respected professional reputation serving tribes in a variety of capacities from language learning, vocational rehabilitation, grant writing, environmental planning and emergency response. Jill immerses her energy into building scalable tribal programs to increase and strengthen the tribal sovereignty. Jill’s cadre of skills allowed her to enjoy working directly as a tribal staff member, on congressional campaigns, state commissions and on local and regional tribal boards and committees. Jill’s work specialty is increasing the professional capacity of tribal environmental staff and engaging tribes on critical environmental issues. Jill enjoys providing tribes the necessary tools to improving their capacity and capability to meet and exceed federal standards without increasing management burdens. Jill also serves as a Senior Consultant to the Environmental Finance Center. Jill served as a member of the San Diego American Indian Health Clinic Board of Directors and on the UC San Diego Chancellor’s Community Advisory Board, the State of California’s Clean Vehicle Assistance (CVA) Advisory Board and the Technical Advisory Board for Mobile Renewable Power. In 2022 Ms. Sherman-Warne received an appointment to serve on the California Air Resources Board’s Environmental Justice Advisory Committee. This past year, she began secondary appointment to the California EPA Tribal Advisory Committee. Jill also serves on the College of the Redwoods Foundation Board. Ms. Sherman-Warne is proud of her previous 15-year tenure on the California Native American Heritage Commission. In her spare time Jill enjoys traditional fishing and hunting. Jill is also a highly successful grant-writer in her off-hours.