Completed Degrees o Bachelor of Administration with Distinction, University of Regina, 2000. o Master of Business Administration, University of Regina, 2002.
Degree in progress - Currently enrolled - PhD (Enterprise and Innovation), Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia. - Expected completion date is March 2008 - Title of research ‘An empirically justified theory of successful Indigenous entrepreneurship in Canada.’
BOARDS AND COMMITTEES
2007 - Director - Triumph Foundation Inc., Adopt A Grad Program www.adoptagrad.com
2005 – present Treaty Four / Regina Regional Economic Development Authority Task Force
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Robert B. Anderson , MacAuley, Scott, Kayseas, Bob, Hindle, Kevin (accepted) On Their Own Terms: Indigenous Communities, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development in the New Economy, Non-market Entrepreneurship: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Edward Elgar Publishing Inc., Cheltenham (UK).
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Hindle, Kevin, Robert B. Anderson, Robert J. Giberson and Bob Kayseas 2005. Relating Practice to Theory in Indigenous Entrepreneurship: a Pilot Investigation of the Kitsaki Partnership Portfolio. American Indian Quarterly . Volume 29, numbers 1/2 Winter/Spring, 1-23.
Anderson, R. B., Hindle, K., Dana, L. P., & Kayseas, R. 2004. Indigenous Land Claims and Economic Development: The Canadian Experience. American Indian Quarterly . Volume 28 (3&4).
Ph.D. Candidate, University of California Davis, Department of Native American Studies
M.S. Community Development, University of California, Davis, 2004
B.A. History, with Honors, New York University, 2001
Research Interests: Indigenous Community and Economic Development, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, Native Critical Theory. Bettina's dissertation, tentatively titled, "Reclaiming Economic Sovereignty: Native and Aboriginal Financial Institutions," examines the structure of Native and Aboriginal Financial Institutions throughout the U.S. and Canada and how these institutions are contributing to Indigenous community and economic development.
Conference Presentations:
"Indigenous Entrepreneurship Curriculum: Putting Theory into Practice," University of Oklahoma,
What's Next for Native American and Indigenous Studies? An International Scholarly Meeting, May 3-5th, 2007. "Reclaiming Economic Sovereignty: Indigenous Financial Institutions," Heidelberg Center for American Studies Spring Academy, April 16-20th, 2007.
"Indigenous Entrepreneurship in the U.S. and Canada," University of New Mexico, International Indigenous Business and Entrepreneurship Conference, June 19-22nd, 2006.
"Transforming the Norm: Indigenous Financial Institutions," National Association for Ethnic Studies Conference, San Francisco, April 1at, 2006.
"Native Financial Institutions," UC Berkeley, New Voices in Indigenous Research, March 11th, 2006 .
"Pathways of Action: Native Financial Institutions," University of Arizona, Contemporary Native American Issues: Pathways of Action, March 2nd, 2006.
Reports worked on with Oweesta and FNDI:
"Native Community Development Financial Institutions," Asset Building Impact Report, First Nations Development Institute,"First Nations Development Institute (Forthcoming).
"Native Financial Institutions Report," First Nations Oweesta Corporation, 2005.
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