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Quanah Crossland Stamps |
The United States Senate confirmed Ms. Quanah Crossland Stamps on November 14, 2002 as the Commissioner of the Administration for Native Americans (ANA). The ANA is located within the Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services and is responsible for programs that support social and economic development projects and goals of American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and other Native American Pacific Islanders, including Native Samoans. From 1998 to August 2002, Ms. Stamps provided competitive business strategies
to foreign companies interested in accessing the U.S. marketplace, federal consulting
services to Tribally owned firms, and worked as a consultant for the U.S. Department
of the Treasury, Community Development Financial Institutions. Ms. Stamps has
worked in the Russian Far East teaching competitive business strategies to recently
privatized firms and to farming cooperatives in the former Republic of Macedonia.
From 1991 to 1994, Ms. Stamps worked with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). During her tenure with the BIA, she worked on procurement policies issues governed by the Buy Indian and the Indian Self-Determination Acts. She was responsible for the review of joint venture agreements, teaming arrangements, contract disputes, and claims related to the award and performance of BIA contracts. Ms. Stamps provided written and oral comments on draft legislation and negotiated the regulations with the Department of Defense to implement the Indian Incentive and the Mentor-Protégé programs. Ms Stamps is an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.
In 2000 she received a Masters in International Commerce and Public Policy at
George Mason University where she focused on transitional economies, U.S. Trade
Agreements, the process of country risk analysis, and international business transactions.
She lives in Arlington, Virginia with her daughter and husband.
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