La quen náay first came to FAI in 2008 as the Alaska Native Policy Center Director, taking on the additional Vice President role in 2009. She then stepped into the Interim President/CEO position in the spring of 2012 and moved into the full role in October 2012. The focus of her work has been to shine a light on our Native peoples – to amplify their power, their voices, their priorities, and their leadership using FAI as a catalyst for meaningful transformation across systems, institutions, and society. FAI has become known for engaging our communities and decision-makers in meaningful dialogues and difficult discussions to advance policy initiatives led by and for our Native peoples. FAI works statewide, making sure that our villages and all our communities are leading the decisions that shape the future. Centering Indigenous values, knowledges, and methodologies has led to the critical engagement of tens of thousands of Alaskans in Alaska Native Conversations that Matter, Alaska Native Dialogues on Racial Equity, Alaska Native Governance and Protocols trainings, Protecting Our Ways of Life, Voting, Elections, and Civic Engagement, Indigenizing Philanthropy, Being Good Relatives dialogues, and the Truth Racial Healing and Transformation endeavor, bringing Alaska Native perspectives to the forefront of the issues facing our communities in all sectors. Her favorite time has always been in our villages, working alongside our communities on the issues they care about, spending time with Elders and youth at the Statewide Elders & Youth Conference that FAI has hosted for 20 years, being catalyzed and strengthened by our interns and fellows, and sharing space with bold and innovative leaders across the state and world who work so hard for justice, equity, sovereignty, self-governance, Indigenous economies, and for our cultures and languages to thrive so that our children can have the bright Indigenous futures they deserve.