Board

Shelley McEuen Howard

Chair

Shelley McEuen-Howard

Professor of English
College of Southern Idaho
Twin Falls, ID

Recommended Book Title:  Braiding Sweetgrass, Author Robin Wall Kimmerer, and Why We're Polarized, Author Ezra Klein

Recommended Movie/TV Title:  Homecoming King, Hasan Manaj special

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Vice Chair/Secretary

Mac Test

Professor, Theatre, Film and Creative Writing
Boise State University
Boise, ID

Recommended Book Title:  Be With (Poetry),
Author Forrest Garder

Recommended Movie/TV Title:  Parasite

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Treasurer

Dulce Kersting-Lark

Head, Special Collections and Archives
University of Idaho Libraries 
Moscow, ID

Recommended Book Title:  Palaces for the People: How
Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality,
Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life by Eric Klinenberg;
What to Expect the First Year, by Heidi Murkoff.

Recommended Movie/TV Title: Call the Midwife from
the BBC.

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Mary Ann Allison

Hofstra University, Professor Emerita; Citibank Executive and Consultant, Retired
Idaho Falls, ID

Recommended Book Title:  Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings: Poems, Author Joy Harjo

Recommended Movie/TV Title:  Jamie Jensen speaking at the Museum of Idaho

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Kenton Bird

Associate Professor, Journalism/Mass Media and American Studies
Moscow, ID

Recommended Book Title:  Blue Latititudes: Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before by Tony Horwitz

Recommended Movie/TV Title: Enjoys watching British crime fiction and doesn’t miss an episode of GrantchesterShetland or Endeavour

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Catherine Black

Idaho Falls Academic Program Coordinator/Advisor 
Idaho Falls, ID

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Eve Chandler

History Writer and Author
Boise, ID

Recommended Book Title: James Castle: Memory Palace by John Beardsley

Recommended Movie/TV Title: Benjamin Franklin, PBS series by Ken Burns

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Dan English

Coeur d'Alene City Councilmen
Retired, Library Clerk, North Idaho College
Coeur d'Alene, ID

Recommended Book Title: Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O’Brian

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Andrew Finstuen

Andrew Finstuen

Associate Vice President for Strategic Planning and Dean of the Honors College
Boise State University
Boise, ID

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Stephan Flores

Retired, Associate Professor of English, Emeritus
University of Idaho
Enrolled member, Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa; Alaska Native, Tsimshian
Moscow, ID

Recommended Book Title:  Eleanor Catton’s Birnam Wood: A Novel (2023); Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other (2019); Victor LaValle’s Lone Women: A Novel (2023)

Recommended Movie/TV Title:   Anatomy of a Fall (2023); Bergman Island (2021); Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

Photographer: Pox Young; Indigenous Creatives

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Contractor and Faculty
Nez Perce Tribe & Northwest Indian College
Lewiston, ID

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Monique Michel

Director and Owner of Ballet Folklorico Mexico Lindo
Boise, ID

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Christina Olson

Christina Olson

Principle
Kerros Cultural Resource Management
Idaho Falls, ID

Recommended Book Title: West of the Revolution: An Uncommon History of 1776 (Claudio Saunt)

Recommended Movie/TV Title:  The Shape of Water

Bob Reinhardt

Bob Reinhardt

Associate Professor of History
Boise State University
Boise, ID

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Randy’L Teton

Public Affairs Specialist, U.S. Forest Service
Blackfoot, ID

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Recommended Movie/TV Title:  Reservation Dogs
(written & produced by a Native American film producer)
via Hulu

Justin Vipperman

Justin Vipperman

History Instructor
College of Southern Idaho
Twin Falls, ID

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Blair Williams

Blair Williams

Owner, The Art Spirit Gallery
Coeur d'Alene, ID

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