Live with EK chats with Seminole tribe Native Learning Center Executive Director

Georgette Palmer is currently the Executive Director for the Seminole Tribe of Florida, Native Learning Center. The NLC provides tuition free ‘Native-centric’ learning in the areas Financial Wellness, Housing Strategies, Tribal Government, Celebrating Culture and Language, and Grants Education. I also serve as President, Seminole Taft Street Properties, LLC and 6365 Taft, LLC. I previously served as the Administrative Program Director for the NLC. I am a member of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma.

I have served as Director, Member Engagement (Membership, Conferences & Communications) for BICSI, a non-profit association. 

I served as Director of the Forum & Conference Services for the University of Oklahoma. I have 20 years of experience in planning and arranging conferences, meetings, exhibitions and events in the U.S, Canada and Europe. I am the former Director of Meetings for (ASTRO) in Fairfax, VA, and previously served as Senior Project Manager for the William H. Natcher Conference Center at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. I also served as the Director of Convention Services for the National Congress of American Indians in Washington, D.C. where I organized the historic meeting between President Bill Clinton and 545 Tribal Leaders at the White House. 

Many accomplishments but the one I am most proud of - in October 2004 I created the University of Oklahoma's first ever Meetings and Event Management Certificate program and served as a member of the OU faculty.