Ian W. Record is Director of the Partnership for Tribal Governance for the National Congress of American Indians in Washington, D.C. From 2004 to 2014, Record served as Manager of Educational Resources for the Native Nations Institute for Leadership, Management, and Policy at the University of Arizona, where he also received his Ph.D. He is the author of the study We Are the Stewards: Indigenous-Led Fisheries Innovation in North America and the producer and director of the documentary film, Return of the Red Lake Walleye.