Role: Walt Pourier is our Chief Marketing Officer. Having been on the VMM Board of Directors for four years, two of which he served as the Vice Chair, Walt is very familiar with VMM’s vision and mission, as he helped to develop it. With his decades of experience in advertising, design, brand identity and marketing, as well as his lifelong commitment to Native country through community outreach and client work. Walt has inspired to create a single voice messaging to collective voice branding campaign for Vision Maker Media.

Role: Tony serves as the Chief Project Officer. With extensive experience as an environmental activist and community organizer, Tony has led climate adaptation projects in over 22 countries, focusing on empowering Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities. In his role, Tony oversees the development and implementation of Vision Maker Media’s nonpublic media film projects, driving innovation, outreach, and strategic direction.

Role: Alana is the resident event planner and grant writing expert at Vision Maker Media. You can find her calmly and quietly juggling all the many moving parts for the next big event between sips of kombucha.

Role: Leala is one of our Digital Marketing Specialists. She works with VMM on their social media outreach by implementing the new branding strategy created by Nakota Designs. Through the different social media platforms as well as the newsletter, Leala aims to show the world how important Native stories are to our developing society.

Lynn Palmanteer-Holder, an Indigenous plateau woman of North Central Washington and member of eight of twelve Tribes of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation. Lynn recently retired as inaugural Director of Tribal Government Affairs for Washington State Board of Community and Technical Colleges, the state’s oversight agency of 34 CTCs.  She is a highly accomplished professional that spans over 40 years. She is an experienced educator that has a demonstrated history across K12, post-secondary & higher education as a teacher, school counselor, superintendent, researcher, and professor. Also, she has diverse experience as an entrepreneur, Tribal leader and administrator. She is skilled in curriculum and program development, facilitating government to government relationships that led to formal partnerships between state institutions and Tribes developing custom programs. Lynn has served on many boards and has been recognized for various statewide, and national awards. She has several scholarly publications and has done various conference presentations and speaking engagements, at the local, national and international level. Lynn holds a Ph.C. (ABD) in Social Welfare Policy from University of Washington. She earned her M.Ed., with a concentration in counseling psychology from Washington State University and B.Ed., in K12 Education from Eastern Washington University. Lynn is a wife of 49 years, a mother of three adult professional children, granny of 10 and great granny to two. Lynn and her husband are high school sweethearts, and together enjoy time with their 15+ two-legged blessings.