Leadership Team
Dr. Doyle Anderson
The founder and President and CEO of FIELDS, Dr. Doyle Anderson, is a member of the Red Pheasant Cree Nation and has over 20 years of experience in Indigenous education and economic development leadership. Dr. Anderson has facilitated community- and industry-driven Indigenous economic and skilled workforce development projects in Canada and the U.S., served as President of First Nations University of Canada, and trained future Indigenous leaders as a professor and administrator of entrepreneurship, business management, and other Indigenous-focused higher education programs at First Nations University of Canada and Idaho State University. Through his experience helping underprepared students achieve education and career success, he has learned that community and employer partnership and intensive K-12 and adult education and career preparation and progress support are highly effective ways to increase education and career engagement success. Dr. Anderson established FIELDS to provide this intervention. He also worked extensively with numerous Indigenous Nations in environmental sustainability, natural resource development, and cultural resource management projects and served as a military officer and as an environmental project manager for Raytheon, then a “Fortune 50” company.
Blaine Jensen
Blaine Jensen, MEd, FIELDS Director of Operations, has worked in providing services and support for Indigenous and non-Indigenous college and university students across Canada. He has been involved in Aboriginal student services for 30 years, helping establish the National Aboriginal Student Services Association of Canada (NASSA), working with the British Columbia Reconciliation Committee, coordinating the Native American Longhouse and Black Cultural center at Oregon State University, and leading the Aboriginal Initiative for the Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology (SIAST). In 2018, Blaine was recognized for leadership in college and university student services by the Canadian Association of College and University Student Services (CACUSS) for his long service to the profession in Canada and given significant awards from the Atlantic Association of College and University Student Service (AACUSS), the Residence Life Professional Association and the Alberta Student Services Association.
Kirk Dooley
Kirk Dooley is leading environmental cleanup and engineering manager in the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Environmental Management system. Kirk is an internationally-recognized leader in environmental remediation, waste management, and environmental monitoring. He has six years’ experience developing and constructing water and wastewater systems on Native American lands with the U.S. Public Health Service, where he also assisted with technical training of Native American staff. Mr. Dooley holds five U.S. patents and has over 30 years’ experience in project management. He assumed a leading role managing and coordinating multiple FIELDS Indigenous skilled workforce development projects in the U.S. and Canada.
Dan Wolfley
Dan Wolfley has over 20 years of experience in finance and administration at educational institutions, including Idaho State University (ISU) and American Falls School District in Idaho. As director of grants and contracts at ISU for 13 years, Dan gained extensive knowledge and skills in financial management and administration for multi-million-dollar higher education projects and programs. In the role as director of finance for American Falls School District, Dan gained in-depth knowledge of funding processes and relationships for K-12 education. As owner of a tax accounting firm, Mr. Wolfley has developed extensive expertise in corporate financial management and accounting.
Lawrence Beaty
Lawrence Beaty is a nationally recognized leader in technical education and talent development for the energy sector. As Founder and Director of the Energy Systems Technology and Education Center at Idaho State University, Mr. Beaty led the establishment of a national center of excellence in energy technology education and training that supports industry career pathways in engineering technology, engineering, and technical management. He is a recognized leader in providing the support required to assist underserved, disadvantaged learners to succeed in challenging programs in the STEM disciplines. Mr. Beaty has played a lead role as Director of Technical Education in FIELDS Native American skilled workforce development programs in the U.S. and Canada. He also has extensive global experience managing large-scale energy production projects.
Collin Warner
Collin Warner is an industrial technology and career development educator of Shoshoni ancestry with over 10 years’ experience as an automation and instrumentation technician in the minerals and oil and gas industries. A graduate of the Energy Systems Technology and Education Center at Idaho State University, Collin’s passion is to help his students build a bridge to technology careers and other careers that provide them with gainful livelihoods that empower them to help build their local communities and economies. Mr. Warner served as a STEM community outreach coordinator for both Utah State University and Idaho State University.