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 October 1994 to 1998, Ms. Stamps was the Assistant Administrator for Native American Affairs with the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA). As the Assistant Administrator, she was the senior policy advisor to the Administrator on business and economic development activities and the delivery of SBA programs that served Alaska, Hawaii and American Indian people in the lower 48 states. While at the SBA, Ms. Stamps focused on opportunities to increase participation by Native American businesses and entrepreneurs in SBA’s financial, business development, and educational and technical assistance programs. Ms. Stamps developed and implemented a nine state, joint federal initiative with the Bureau of Indian Affairs to establish 21 rural reservation-based Tribal Business Information Centers (TBIC). The business assistance centers are located in areas of the country with chronic, high unemployment and are responsible for the development and expansion of hundreds of small businesses.

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.