Professional Bio

Bonnie Sachatello-Sawyer is the executive director and founder of Hopa Mountain, a non-profit based in Bozeman, Montana that is dedicated to investing in rural and tribal citizen leaders, adults and youth, who are working to improve education, ecological health, and economic development. Formerly the director of the Native Waters Project at Montana State University – Bozeman, Sachatello-Sawyer has more than twenty years of experience collaboratively developing education projects in the Northern Rockies. An educator by training, she worked for eleven years at the Museum of the Rockies and co-authored Adult Museum Programs: Designing Meaningful Experiences based on a national study. She received her Ed.D. from Montana State University in Adult and Community Education and completed her M.A. in Political Science at the University of Richmond. Her undergraduate degree in Political Science is from Vanderbilt University. Sachatello-Sawyer lives in Bozeman, Montana with her husband, Joe. She can be reached at bsawyer@hopamountain.org

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