18 Facts About Rebecca Adamson

Rebecca Adamson is former director, former president, and founder of First Nations Development Institute and the founder of First Peoples Worldwide.

Tayna H Lee described Adamson as being of the Cherokee Nation in 2016.

Rebecca Adamson holds a master of science in economic development from the Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, New Hampshire, where she teaches a graduate course on Indigenous economics.

Rebecca Adamson left college in 1970 to work on western reservations to help end the practice of removing Native American children from their homes and placing them in government or missionary-ran boarding schools in the hope of destroying their connections to their native languages and cultures.

Rebecca Adamson became the adviser for the UN's International Labor Organization International Indigenous Rights from 1988 to 1989.

Rebecca Adamson has served on the board of directors for the National Center for Enterprise Development and the Council on Foundations.

Rebecca Adamson's work led to the first microloan fund in the United States associated with a reservation, the first tribal investment model.

Rebecca Adamson launched a strategy with investment criteria that protect the rights of indigenous peoples and has been adopted by a mutual fund, an index fund, and investment advisors.

Rebecca Adamson established a scholarship program for native people at the Yale School of Organization and Management and at the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota.

Rebecca Adamson convinced the World Bank to create the First Global Indigenous Peoples' Facility Fund to make small building grants.

Rebecca Adamson was appointed by the Obama administration to serve a three-year term on the US Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative Advisory Committee to increase the transparency in the reporting on natural resource extraction.

Rebecca Adamson serves on the board of directors for the Calvert Social Investment Fund and the Calvert Small Cap Fund which are known for socially-responsible investing and co-founded a fund there.

Rebecca Adamson is on the board and trustee for Tom's of Maine, Inc Rebecca Adamson is on the boards of Corporation for Enterprise Development, The Bay Foundation, Josephine Bay Paul and C Michael Paul Foundation, The Bridgespan Group, and First Voice International.

Rebecca Adamson is a founding member of Native Americans in Philanthropy, Funders Who Fund Native Americans, and International Funders for Indigenous Peoples.

Rebecca Adamson has been a member of the editorial boards of Indian Country Today, Native Americas, and for Akwe:kon Journal.

Rebecca Adamson was able to secure statements from ESG investors with over $1.7 trillion in invested assets requesting that the banks funding the pipeline support the tribe's request to reroute the pipeline.

Rebecca Adamson's efforts helped to embolden activists who forced shareholder resolutions to require that the environmental and social risks were more adequately disclosed and encouraged over 500 NGOs to pressure the banks financing the pipeline with three major banks pulling out of the syndication and ten other banks supported strengthening the Equator Principles.

Rebecca Adamson writes a monthly column for Indian Country Today newspaper.