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Dianna
Torson
Dianna Torson is
Vice President and CEO of Leading Education.com,
Inc. She has a B.A. in English, Spanish
and Native American Studies and an M.A. in
Speech and English from South Dakota State
University at Brookings. Dianna served
as a faculty member, chair and Dean of Arts and
Sciences at Sinte Gleska University on the
Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota and as the Director of Student Development
and Native American Advisor at Dakota State
University. She has taught Career Planning,
English, Literature, Speech and Creative Writing.
Dianna
has attended Collaboration for College Teaching and Learning
Conferences, National Conferences on Race &
Ethnicity, Native American Writer's Conferences,
South Dakota Indian Education Conferences, and
National Indian Education Association Conferences.
She has presented at South Dakota College
Personnel Conferences, National Indian Media
Association Conferences, Modern Language
Association Conferences, and the Sixth National
Conference on Students in Transition. She
was a South Dakota Humanities lecturer,
presenting several lectures on "Communication and the Power
of Native American Women." She has received the following awards:
Outstanding Student Personnel Internship
Supervisor, Pioneer of On-line Instruction,
and Teacher of the Year at Sinte Gleska
University.
She
produced the memoir Salt Camp: HerStory by
Ollie Napesni, Lakota elder. Salt Camp: HerStory
is an authentic oral narrative by South Dakota's
2002 Indian Living Treasure.
Dianna is a member of the Honor
Society of Phi Kappa Phi and is included
in the 24th and 25th editions of Marquis Who'sWho of American
Women, the 25th edition of Marquis Who'sWho in the
World, and in the upcoming 2009 Edition of Who'sWho
in America. See Marquis Who'sWho web site at: www.marquiswhoswho.com.
Dianna
currently serves as the secretary for the South Dakota
Pilot's Association. She lives near Brookings, South
Dakota with her husband John Barney.
www.sintegleska.edu
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