The University of Wisconsin-Superior’s Indigenous Alumni Speakers Series will conclude with Jason Schlender on Tuesday, December 3, at 3 p.m. in the William “Pope” Wright Student Center. This event is free and open to the community.

A 2009 graduate with a history degree, Schlender was selected in 2023 by the Great Lakes Indian Fish & Wildlife Commission (GLIFWC) Board of Commissioners to lead intertribal natural resources management in the three-state Ojibwe Ceded Territory.

A Lac Courte Oreilles tribal member, Schlender previously served as tribal administrator for the St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin, vice chairman of the Lac Courte Oreilles Tribal Governing Board and chairman of GLIFWC’s Voigt Intertribal Task Force.

Highlighting the stories of Indigenous alumni of UW-Superior and honoring their accomplishments and perspectives, the Indigenous Alumni Speakers Series is sponsored by the UW-Superior Indigenous studies program, Indigenous Cultures Resource Center, Alumni and Friends Foundation and Social Inquiry Department.

The William “Pope” Wright Student Center is in Old Main, Room 232.