NWL Co-founders

Kalika Davis (Diné/Ute)

Owner, Salon Tallou

Kalika Davis diverse cultural, educational, and entrepreneurial background provides the foundation for her range of experience in marketing, community organizing and holistic health. Kalika currently works as the Marketing Manager for New Mexico Community Capital. She is passionate about sharing Native stories through photography and film and has worked closely with both NMCC and NWL to grow their visual assets over the past 3 years.

Kalika became one of 8 co-founders of Native Women Lead in 2017, owned and operated Salon Tallou, an all organic hair salon and wellness boutique for 7+ years in Albuquerque, NM. During that time she had the great opportunity to create a unique experience by providing intergenerational Navajo Language classes and mentorship for young Indigenous women from the Native American Community Academy.

Lisa Foreman (Filipino, Shawnee, & Scott-Irish)

Lisa is a proud mother of three. She and her husband are serial entrepreneurs and co-owners of One World Rug Care (non-toxic rug cleaning/repair & gallery), Naturally Clean (eco-friendly cleaning of carpet tile, wood, air ducts, etc.) and Pohaku Inc. (Land/real estate investing/development). Her background is in facilitation, development and implementation of wellness practices that focus on postpartum care for mothers. She has created international networks with health experts across cultures to develop mutually beneficial relationships surrounding education, and community wellness. Lisa enjoys empowering the next generations for continued health and success.

Kim Gleason (Navajo)

Executive Director, Two Worlds - Native Theater and Performing Arts

Born in twenty-nine palms, California. Kim is a Navajo Producer-Playwright-Actress-Singer and Director. She’s been active in local theater, film and television for over 17 years, where she continues to promote Native American performing and cinematic arts in New Mexico. Her musical journey started at the age of 11, where she studied classical music on the Cello, and found the passion of acting and singing in high school. She later ventured on to study theater professionally at the University of New Mexico, until graduating in 2005. From 2010-2014, Kim moved to Spain to teach English and worked with theater companies “The Madrid Players” and “Lobito Teatro”. Since her return from Spain, she’s worked along side theater companies “New Native Theatre” in Minneapolis and "In Strange Company” in New York State. Since 2009, Kim has been the Executive Director for Two Worlds, producing full stage theater productions, staged readings, short films and screenings, education-collaboration projects, PSA community announcements, and photography.

Jaime Gloshay (Navajo/White Mountain Apache/Kiowa)

Project Manager, Roanhorse Consulting LLC

Jaime Gloshay is a Co-Director and Co-Founder of Native Women Lead, where she leads key initiatives in fund design, advancement, and partnership development while overseeing program design, international development, and data and evaluation efforts.

Previously, Jaime led Accion’s Native Lending program, managing a portfolio of $1M+, and supported the development of Nusenda’s Co-Op Capital initiative to pilot relationship-based lending. In 2019, she was appointed to lead the tribal subcommittee for New Mexico’s Statewide Complete Count Commission, which activated an $11.5M state investment to ensure a complete count for the 2020 census.

Jaime serves on UpTogether’s Board of Directors, is a Movement Partner with Justice Funder’s Just Transition in Investment Community, a Partnership Committee member for Community Credit Lab, a SheEO Activator, an Advisor for Angels of Impact, a 2022 Tribal Data Champions Fellow, and an Emerging Fund Manager for the 2021–2022 Purpose Futures Fellowship. She is also a facilitator for Kindle Project’s Indigenous Women’s Flow Fund and a supporting faculty member for Trauma of Money.

Jaime has been recognized as a 2020 National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development 40 Under 40 award recipient, 2020 Boston Impact Initiative cohort member, 2018 Opportunity Finance Network Fellow, and the 2019 Angel Tank Audience Choice Award winner. She was also one of twenty-five people selected nationally to attend the 2020 Transform Finance Institute for Social Justice Leaders.

Supporting Native women is an honor and the heart work of Jaime. She believes in Native women as the innate caretakers, backbones, advocates, and protectors of children, culture, and community for the people and planet. She is inspired by the women she gets to work with, work for, and be guided by the Matriarchs in her life. Jaime is committed to uplifting, empowering, and locking arms with Matriarchs making moves to lead their families and communities toward safety, economic justice, and a future space where we all thrive.

Alicia Ortega (Pojoaque/ Santa Clara Pueblos)

Owner, Evergreen Ingenuity

Alicia Ortega is from the Pueblos of Pojoaque and Santa Clara. She is the owner of Evergreen Ingenuity, a Native woman owned and operated consulting company where creativity and collaboration blossom. She brings over a decade of experience working with minority and tribally owned and operated businesses and entities from start-ups to established businesses. As the former Executive Director of the All Pueblo Council of Governors she has extensive knowledge in working with the 20 Pueblos of New Mexico’s tribal leadership on critical issues affecting tribal communities including health, education, state/federal legislation, natural resources, elder issues and youth initiatives. Alicia currently serves on the UNM Anderson School of Management’s Women in Leadership Advisory Board. She is also an artist and active community member and enjoys supporting organizations close to her heart including the American Indian Business Association and the Native Guitars Tour Organization. She holds a BBA in Organizational Management with a concentration in Entrepreneurial Studies and two MBA degrees in Marketing and Management of Technology from the University of New Mexico Anderson School of Management.

Stephine Poston (Pueblo of Sandia)

Owner, Poston & Associates LLC

Ms. Poston is committed to inspiring tribal communities through culturally competent, community-based approaches. She has nearly three decades’ experience in public and community relations, marketing and branding, strategic facilitation and planning, event planning and capacity building training at tribal, federal, state and local levels.

Recent acknowledgment of merit…

2018 Small Business Champion (SCORE)

2018 University of New Mexico, Anderson School of Management Hall of Fame

2017 Native Woman Business Owner of the Year (NCAIED)

2016 New Mexico Women of Influence 

She has two son’s Marcus and Jon and enjoys golf, travel, yoga and audio books. She recently contributed to Indigenous Women Entrepreneurs of New Mexico: Surpassing Barriers and Stereotypes.

Vanessa Roanhorse (Navajo)

CEO, Roanhorse Consulting LLC

Vanessa is an inclusive solutions-driven problem-solver committed to liberating all peoples and delivering impactful mechanisms for social, environmental, and economic change. She launched Roanhorse Consulting (RCLLC) in 2016, an indigenous women-led think tank. RCLLC co-designs wealth and power-building efforts that directly invest in our leaders, supports meaningful data collection informed by indigenous research approaches, and helps build thoughtful community-led projects that enforce values that put people at the center. Vanessa got her management chops working for 7 years at a Chicago-based nonprofit, the Delta Institute, focused throughout the Great Lakes region to build a resilient environment and economy through creative, sustainable, market-driven solutions. Vanessa oversaw many of Delta’s on-the-ground energy efficiency, green infrastructure, community engagement programs, and workforce development training. Vanessa is a 2020 Conscious Company Media’s World-Changing Women in Sustainable Business award and is a 2020-21 Boston Impact Initiative Fund-Building fellow. She is a retired member of the ABQ Living Cities leadership table, is a founding member of the Zebras Unite cooperative, and an advisor to Angels of Impact Fund and Indigenous Philanthropic Advisory Group. She sits on the boards of Native Community Capital, Zebras Unite, Delta Institute, and the New Mexico Association of Grantmakers. Vanessa is one of 8 co-founders of Native Women Lead, an organization dedicated to growing Native women into positions of leadership and business. Vanessa is Diné (Navajo) citizen and resides in Tiwa Territory (Albuquerque, NM)

Jaclyn Roessel (Navajo)

President, Grown Up Navajo

Jaclyn Roessel was born and raised on the Navajo Nation. An alumnus from Arizona State University, she was the inaugural recipient of the Arizona Humanities Rising Star Award in 2013, which is given to young professionals whose work elevates the importance of humanities in the community. She's been named one of Phoenix 100 Creatives You Should Know. Working in the museum field for over the past decade and most recently as the Director of Decolonizing Initiatives at the San Diego Museum of Man, Roessel confirmed her belief in the power of utilizing cultural learning as a tool to engage and build stronger Native communities. As the president of Grownup Navajo, a company dedicated to sharing how Native American teachings and values are tools to help build greater cultural competency in museums and other non-profit organizations. Through all her work, Roessel aims to expand her work to further inspire Native people to use their traditional knowledge as a catalyst to create change in our communities today. She lives with her husband in Santa Ana Pueblo.