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Featured Speakers
SERNW is proud to have an exciting list of featured speakers for this year's regional conference.
 Hank Gobin
Special Tuesday Morning Guest Speaker
Hank Gobin was born and raised on the Tulalip Reservation. He attended and graduated from the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1965. He went on to the San Fransisco Art Institute and received his Bachelors in Fine Arts in 1970, and obtained a Masters Degree with a 4.0 GPA at Sacramento State College in 1971. He was asked to return to the Institute for American Indian Art in 1971, and served as their Arts Director from 1972 – 1983. After leaving the Institute in 1983, he lived the life of a starving artist, and then worked for the Affiliated Tribes of NW Indians from 1986 – 1987. Like a migrating salmon, Hank came back to the Tulalip Reservation and has been working on the Hibulb Museum ever since. He now serves as the Cultural Resources Manager for the Museum.
 Terry Williams
Special Tuesday Lunch Speaker
Fisheries & Natural Resources Commissioner
Tulalip Tribes of Washington
Since 1982, Williams has served as a Fisheries and Natural Resources Commissioner for the Tulalip Tribes. In this role, he directs pre-season fisheries negotiations, governmental planning and cooperative habitat management. Since 1985, Williams has served on the Northwest Indian Fisheries Commission. He has also represented the Tulalip Tribes on the Pacific Fisheries Management Council since 1985 and served on the Pacific Salmon Commission since 1997.
Appointed by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Carol Browner, Williams served as the director of the EPA American Indian Environmental Office in Washington, D.C. from 1995 to 1996. This office addressed specific environmental issues of Indian tribes nationwide. From 2003 to 2004, Williams served as Chair of the Tribal Committee of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Committee. This year, he was a participant in the EPA Tribal Trust Program that addressed cultural sustainability via restoration and protection of endangered species.
Williams has also worked on tribal issues at the international level. In 1997, the Secretary for Policy and International Affairs Office of the Department of the Interior appointed Williams to represent indigenous peoples on the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity.
Williams currently serves on the Salmon Homecoming Alliance Board and the Northwest Straits Commission. He is also a member of the Snohomish Basin Salmon Recovery Forum, a multi-interest coalition that guides salmon conservation efforts in the Snohomish River basin. The forum is developing a local salmon conservation plan and prioritizing critical restoration projects.
Appointed by Governor Booth Gardner, Williams served from 1985 to 1995 on the Puget Sound Water Quality Authority. He also served on the board of the Center For Streamside Studies, Adopt-A-Stream Foundation and the Native American Fish and Wildlife Society. Williams has received the Washington State Environmental Award and the Seventh Generation Legacy Award for his work.
 Paul Stamets
Special Guest Speaker
Wednesday Evening Banquet
Paul Stamets has been a dedicated mycologist for over thirty years. Over this time, he has discovered and coauthored four new species of mushrooms, and pioneered countless techniques in the field of edible and medicinal mushroom cultivation. He received the 1998 "Bioneers Award" from The Collective Heritage Institute, and the 1999 "Founder of a New Northwest Award" from the Pacific Rim Association of Resource Conservation and Development Councils. In 2008, Paul received the National Geographic Adventure Magazine's Green-Novator and the Argosy Foundation's E-chievement Awards.
He has written six books on mushroom cultivation, use and identification; his books Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms and The Mushroom Cultivator (coauthor) have long been hailed as the definitive texts of mushroom cultivation. Other works by Paul Stamets include Psilocybe Mushrooms and Their Allies (out of print), Psilocybin Mushrooms of the World, MycoMedicinals®: an Informational Treatise on Mushrooms, and many articles and scholarly papers. His newest book is Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save The World.
Click here to learn more about Paul Stamets' talk
The Weavils
Wednesday Evening Entertainment
At the social prior to the banquet, music will be provided by, The Weavils, a local bluegrass band!
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