Key Personnel
Dawn Shegonee: Artistic
Director
Shegonee co-founded Call for Peace Drum
& Dance Company in 1990 and has served as Artistic
Director since then. Shegonee has also worked as Arts and Education Coordinator for the
Bayview Foundation since 1990, Call for Peace Youth Program
Director since 1993 and Call for Peace the Next Generation
Artistic Director since 2004. Since 1990, she has brought
Call for Peace to audiences all over the world, including
Germany, Russia, Israel, Egypt, the United States and, most
recently, to the Fourth Global
Summit for the Nobel Peace Prize Laureates in Rome, Italy.
She has brought youth performers to the Wisconsin Youth
Art Month, 4_h World Congress, WHA Volunteer-A-Thon, Wisconsin
Alliance for Arts Education Conference, Martin Luther King Jr.
Celebration at the Madison Civic Center, the Madison
Children’s Museum and more. She has over 14 years experience working with both
youth and adults in the arts and education.
Art Shegonee: Ambassador
Shegonee co-founded Call for Peace Drum & Dance Company in 1990 and has served as its Ambassador
since then. Shegonee was also instrumental in developing the Call for
Peace Talking Stick/Talking Circle program that has been
presented at schools, community centers and organizations
throughout the Midwest. Additionally,
he is a Native American ambassador to Wisconsin Indian Summer
and is a traditional dancer in pow-wows throughout Wisconsin.
Shegonee has served as the Affirmative Action
consultant for Tellurian UCAN, and as director of the former
Native American Resource Center. He is also a certified instructor
of Nonviolent Crisis Intervention for the National Crisis Prevention Institute,
Inc., a former member of the EOC Citizen Ad Hoc Committee on
community race and ethnic relations and a member of the
Greater Madison Leadership (LGM). He has been a cultural consultant, teacher and
presenter at over 300 schools throughout Wisconsin and
neighboring states.
Teri LeSage: Grants
Administrator/Program Director
LeSage is a graduate from the University
of Wisconsin-Madison who has worked in non-profits and with "at-risk" populations since 1998. Her work has included director positions at The
Salvation Army of Brown County, the Boys & Girls Club in
Green Bay and at the Bayview Foundation in Madison, Wisconsin.
LeSage also has fundraising, marketing and
administrative experience, including grant writing, special
events planning and coordinating, database development,
website design and creation and newsletter composition and
layout. She has
served as a committee member on many local community boards,
including the Green Bay Drug Alliance, Start Smart, Ethnic
Fest and more. LeSage joined Call for Peace Drum & Dance Company
as volunteer Secretary in 2000 and as Grants
Administrator/Program Director in 2004.
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