Board of Directors

Amanda Funk (Citizen Potawatomi Nation)
President
Co-Founder & Executive Director

Alexi Weiskircher
Secretary
Co-Founder, Visual Director & Research Coordinator

Jessica Ross
Treasurer

Rachael Denessen (Mohawk)

Tania Evans (Ho-Chunk)

Tania is a mother, teacher, musician, crafter, Montessorian, and so much more. She received her Bachelor’s degree in music education from West Chester University of Pennsylvania, her Montessori 3-6 certificate from NAMC, and holds a Pennsylvania Private Academic Certification in nursery/kindergarten.

For over 15 years Tania has traveled to Winnebago, Nebraska every summer to visit with and learn from her grandparents and relatives of the Ho-Chunk Tribe. She is happy to support WCNK in its mission to build a community for our people in this area, and to create societal change.

Rain Black (Choctaw/Cherokee)

Rain Black, M.P.H., CPH (He/They) is an unenrolled Choctaw and Cherokee descendant. They are a 2-Spirit autistic watercolor, beadwork, & twining artist and forager who earned his bachelor’s degrees in Biology, Public Health and Art from Cedar Crest College. He holds a Master of Public Health degree in epidemiology from the University of South Florida and is Certified in Public Health. He is a community educator with 8 years of experience focusing on topics around domestic and intimate partner abuse, queer and transgender justice, foraged art making, life skills, and public health. They also teach about native plants, forest conservation, and foraging on social media and in person. He is a founding organizer of Queer & Trans Lehigh Valley.

Dr. Amanda Morris

Dr. Amanda Morris teaches contemporary Indigenous rhetorics at Kutztown University and serves on this board to support the work of her former grad student and current director of the Center, Amanda Funk, in her efforts to create a larger presence for Indigenous peoples in Berks County. The peoples have always been here, but the larger community lacks awareness of this fact, so the work of the Widoktadwen Center is vital to changing that conversation and increasing awareness and cultural opportunities for Indigenous peoples in Berks County and beyond.