Candidate, United States House of Representatives, Wyoming, District At-Large, 2020, 2022

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Vice President, Global Indigenous Council, 2019-present

Director, Northern Arapaho Land Buy-Back Program, 2019-present

Program Consultant and Advisor, Amber Alert Training and Technical Assistance Program, 2014-present

Director, Not Our Native Daughters (Spirit of Change Project), 2013-present

Program Assistant/Office Manager, Training & Resources United to Stop Trafficking (TRUST AZ.org), 2014

Project Manager/Workflow Coordinator/Underwriter Business Support Employee, Bank of America, 2008-2012

Tribal Liaison, Wyoming Outdoor Council, 2020-present

Member, Governor’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Task Force Task Force, 2019-present

Member, Wyoming Governor's - Missing, Murdered and Indigenous Persons Task Force, 2019-present

Member, Wyoming Governor's Human Trafficking Task Force, 2019-present

Member, Wyoming Governor's Human Trafficking Task Force, 2019-present

Member, Northern Arapaho Tribe, present

Member, Standing Rock Lakota Tribe, present

Chair-Elect/Policy Committee Member, Arizona Commission of Indian Affairs, 2015-2016

Chair, Arizona Commission of Indian Affairs., 2015-2016

Executive Director, Wind River Native Advocacy Center, 2015-2016

Executive Board Member & Tribal Liaison, Winged Hope Family Advocacy Foundation, 2015-2016

Volunteer Leader, Valley of the Sun United Way, 2009

Father's Name:

Myron Grey Bull

Father's Occupation:

Senior Technician - Panasonic Corporation

Favorite Author:

Maya Angelou

Favorite Book:

Black Elk Speaks

Favorite Quote:

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor."

Desmond Tutu

Hobbies or Special Talents:

Special Talent: As a kid, I wanted to do a job to help the hearing impaired. In fourth grade, my Mom bought me a book on sign language. I taught myself the sign language alphabet and a few words; to which I still remember to this day.

Personal Hero and Why:

Elouise Cobell, Yellow Bird Woman a Blackfeet Indian. Elouise Cobell, is known as the woman who has sued the U.S. Government on the behalf of tribes in America. This remarkable lady spent the last 16 years of her life fighting the U.S. Government in the courts for monies due to her tribe from mismanagement by Government Departments going back to 1887. In 2009 the lawsuit resulted in a $3.4 billion settlement in favor of 500,000 Native Americans for mismanaging their accounts and to buy up fractional land and turn it over to the tribes and establish a scholarship for college-bound youth. The settlement was approved by Congress and signed by President Obama and was given final approval in June 2011. She was made a warrior by the Blackfeet Tribe and honored as such at her funeral. Cobell wasn't able to live long enough to see the benefits of her fight be distributed to the tribes and it's people. She died of cancer at the age of 65. Her life and ploy against the U.S. Government is illustrated in a documentary, '100 Years'. I have always been a public servant, volunteer to some degree throughout my adult life. I began volunteering at Skid Row in Los Angeles, then United Way in Phoenix, Arizona. I then moved to addressing homeless women and children, anti child sex trafficking efforts; to which then led me to helping Native American families and Missing, Murdered, and Indigenous Women & Girls. I truly understand how it is to live with a burden to help people, and it can feel like nothing will help by fighting the giants. Working to find some relief for people in need, is something I share with Mrs. Elouise Cobell. She won her victory and some of the people she was advocating for, never lived long enough to receive justice, because they too, had passed on. I commend her to you as my hero - as someone whose example we should aspire to.

Priority Issues:

The land is what gives us life, but all Wyomingites know that this relationship is a two way street. My vision is to create an economic and political situation that gives Wyoming farmers and ranchers the freedom to take care of their land and family in the way they know is right. But as many know, that is not where we are at today.

The grim economic situation farmers and ranchers face throughout Wyoming, from the Wind River Reservation to Cheyenne, is perhaps one of the most unifying realities our great state faces today. As prices in supermarkets continue to climb for meat, the percentage landing in the pockets of our producers dwindles.

If elected to Congress, I will support the bipartisan Rancher Relief Plan led by Senator Tester. This Bill addresses simultaneously the unbelievable market volatility in the meat market and the dropping revenue for Wyoming ranchers themselves in three specific ways:

It would reinstate Country of Origin Labeling (COOL). This would give a competitive edge back to Wyoming ranchers and rebuild an honest transaction with consumers about where their meat is actually coming from.

It would introduce the New Markets for State-inspected Meat and Poultry Act. This would mean inspections conducted at Wyoming Meat and Poultry Inspection (MPI) facilities would clear products to be sold across state lines, thus opening up new markets for Wyoming producers.

It would introduce the Spot Price Bill. This would require packers to purchase 50 percent of their cattle via spot payments, thus decreasing the market's dependence on packer-manipulated formula pricing and creating a more transparent marketplace for producers.

As someone who lives in rural Wyoming, I know firsthand that various forms of infrastructure are either crumbling or nonexistent. The first of these issues that I will work on is access to the broadband infrastructure that today connects the world.

For years, the FCC has been basing their coverage claims on bad data, which has allowed them to claim coverage where it does not exist. If elected, I will make sure that the aspirations in the recent bipartisan Broadband DATA Act are actually followed through on in our State. This bill would require the FCC to create higher resolution coverage maps and establish a challenge process through which individuals who lack coverage may challenge the FCC's existing data set. It is one thing to get the DATA Act passed, and another entirely to make sure it is followed through on.

More broadly, if elected I would begin to work with those Congressional leaders who are beginning to put forward the Rural Infrastructure Advancement Act of 2020, which although is still in its early phases, would prioritize our state in the development of infrastructure funding.

Wyoming has the opportunity to serve our entire nation as an example of what fair education can look like. Our state is a model for equitable school funding that does not depend on local property taxes, which so often lead to unequal school facilities. Through progressive funding we are able to spend more per pupil than many other school systems. Further, unlike many states, Wyoming has relatively few students who choose to opt out of public schooling, and there is little economic difference in those who do, meaning that both wealthy and working-class families overwhelmingly choose to send their children to our public institutions. Lynnette hopes to take what we can learn from Wyoming's school systems to help reform educational funding across the country, making it more equitable for students everywhere. Although we can serve as leaders nationally in the push to create more fair school systems across the country, we still have plenty of room to grow in making sure that all Wyomingites have equal access to education, affordable routes towards college, and to ensuring that our teachers and other educational support professionals have what they need to lead our students to success.

Reason for Seeking Public Office:

We need to bring respect, dignity and understanding back into our political discourse. We can disagree without being disagreeable. We cannot go on with this divisive politics of destruction, of personal attacks and insults. I would like to work towards a societal and political realm, where we are working to close the cultural divide, and promote bipartite.

I am running for the Democratic Party nomination for US Congress, but I have demonstrated throughout my political career a willingness and ability to not only reach across the political aisle, but to work constructively with Republican colleagues. For example, recently I served as Chair of the Arizona Commission of Indian Affairs at the Governor's office and participated on the Arizona Governor"s Human Trafficking Task Force, both of these were with Governor Doug Ducey of Arizona, who is a Republican. Likewise, I worked with Governor Gordon of Wyoming on his Executive Order to address the Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women (MMIW) crisis, and I serve on the governor"s task force that was established on the basis of that order. I've worked at the state-level, federal-level, in tribal government, and have also provided research and data to the United Nations.