Rhonda Anderson

Western Massachusetts Commissioner on Indian Affairs

Rhonda Anderson is Iñupiaq – Athabascan from Alaska. Her Native enrollment village is Kaktovik. Rhonda has sat on several Indigenous panels and roundtables to discuss how to uphold reproductive rights within all IHS institutions across the United States, how to educate Native students in Massachusetts better, issues regarding Native teen drug and alcohol use, land acknowledgments, land back movement, and Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women. Rhonda is a founder and former co-director of Ohketeau Cultural Center and Native Youth Empowerment Foundation. Rhonda is the Western Massachusetts Commissioner on Indian Affairs, a Massachusetts Seal, Flag, and Motto Advisory Commission member, a Massachusetts Cultural Council's Governing Board member, an Executive Board member of the Woodland Partnership of Northwestern Massachusetts, and served on the New England Foundation for the Arts Advisory Council.