Danyelle Means is the Director of Institutional Advancement at the Institute of American Indian Arts. Born on the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, Means is a citizen of the Oglala Lakota Nation. For many years she worked at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian. She has worked with other institutions including Marist College, Pace University, the Peabody Essex Museum, and the Newark Museum. Means was the lead co-curator for Survivance on Turtle Island: Engaging with Contemporary Native American Art at the Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College.