Biography

Yá'át'ééh, shik’éí dóó shidine’é. Shí éí Concetta Tsosie de Haro yinishyé dóó "International Executive Board Member-At-Large" niha'dasédá. Tábąąhá nishłį́, Táchii'nii bashishchiin, Honágháahnii dashicheii, dóó Tábąąhá dashinalí. Ákót'éego diné asdzáán nishłį́.

Hello, my friends and family! My name is Concetta Tsosie de Haro and I serve as International Executive Board Member-At-Large. I am of the Water’s Edge Clan, born for the Red Running Into the Water clan, my maternal grandfather’s clan is One Who Walks Around You, and my paternal grandfather’s clan is also Water’s Edge. This makes me a Diné (Navajo) woman.

Currently, Concetta serves as Counsel for Chairman Brian Schatz of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is responsible for various issues that affect the 574 federally recognized Tribes. Her portfolio areas include public safety, civil rights, Tribal courts and jurisdiction, cannabis, financial services, social services, taxation, telecommunications, and transportation. She has been with the Committee since 2018 and has worked on numerous pieces of legislation aimed at addressing the MMIWG crisis and restoring Tribal criminal jurisdiction, including the recent passage of the 2022 Reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. She also helped draft several pieces of legislation for Tribal broadband and transportation in the coronavirus aid packages. She also previously served as Clerk of the Robert E. Redding National Capital Area Alumni Chapter. 

Concetta has previously served as a Wilma Mankiller Legal Fellow at the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI). NCAI is a non-profit Tribal organization established in 1944 in response to the termination and assimilation policies set forth by the federal government against Tribes. NCAI's primary focus is to protect and promote the inherent and sovereign rights of Tribal Nations. Prior to NCAI, she worked as a law clerk at the Office of the Solicitor in the Division of Indian Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Interior. Her primary research topics included the Indian Child Welfare Act, Indian education, and the federal Tribal recognition process. 

Concetta graduated from the University of New Mexico School of Law with a certificate in Indigenous People's Law. She was part of the Editorial Staff of the Tribal Law Journal, taught for the Marshall Brennan Constitutional Literacy Project in Jemez Pueblo, and served as a Legal Observer for the Guantanamo Military Commission in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. She also served as Vice Justice of the McManus Chapter at UNM Law. Concetta is a 2013 graduate of the Pre-Law Summer Institute and served as a T.A. in 2014. She also holds a B.A. in History and a B.A. in Psychology with a minor in Political Science from the University of New Mexico.

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