Aoki Interdisciplinary Research Seminar with Christina Snider, Governor's Tribal Advisor & Executive Secretary of the Native American Heritage Commission Christina Snider was appointed by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. in February 2018 and reappointed by Governor Gavin Newsom in February 2019 to serve as the Governor's Tribal Advisor and Executive Secretary of the Native American Heritage Commission. Christina's work focuses primarily on tribal law and policy, with experience in tribal tax, economic development, gaming, child welfare, juvenile justice, cultural resource protection, voting rights and government relations at the state and federal levels. She is an enrolled member of the Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians. Christina received her law degree from the UCLA in 2013, and is licensed to practice law in California and the District of Columbia. She has served as a law clerk at the Office of Tribal Justice at the United States Department of Justice and the Hualapai Court of Appeals, and worked with the Wishtoyo Foundation/Ventura Coastkeeper as a legal fellow, the National Congress of American Indians as a staff attorney, Ceiba Legal, LLP as of counsel and the Dry Creek Rancheria Band of Pomo Indians as an ICWA representative.