Tribal Aid Benefit Concerts Team
Executive Board
John Sun – Founder & Secretary
Mr. Sun is the Health Practice Area Director for LMI, with over 31 years of federal contracting/advisory experience in healthcare infrastructure, management consulting, and health equity. Prior to joining LMI, Mr. Sun was the Vice President of Health Equity/Healthcare Disparities and Indian Health Service at Philips Healthcare, where he successfully built and introduced a contracting model that is proven and sustainable for disparate populations. Mr. Sun also supported Cherokee Nation Businesses and Bristol Bay Native Corporation as Vice President of Business Development, bringing economic opportunities to the tribal governments and communities. Mr. Sun’s personal background is as a design architect, having designed many hospitals, clinics, and fun buildings, such as the Small Reptile/Mammal facility at the Lincoln Park Zoo.
Erica Sun – Co-Founder & CEO
Erica Sun is a retired veteran, serving 20 years in the US Coast Guard as an Intelligence Specialist. She provided language and signals intelligence analysis in support of the US Coast Guard and National Intelligence Agencies. She has now formed her own small business, Sun Curating Group LLC.
Erica was born in San Benito, Texas. She graduated from Rio Hondo High School in 1998 and joined the military at the age of 18. She received her BA in Business Management and a minor in Child Development at American Military University.
Andre Roberson – Entertainment Partner
Whether as a singer, songwriter, actor, rapper, record producer, or movie producer, Andre Lafelle Roberson is the epitome of "the hardest working man in Hollywood" with his dedication and loyalty. He is a skilled entrepreneur in the entertainment industry, working tirelessly to perfect his craft on stage and screen for over two decades. Roberson has been featured in numerous films and television shows, such as Days of Our Lives.
From putting together benefit fundraisers for smaller charity groups, such as The Emily Shane Foundation, to organizing and headlining larger professional fundraisers for prestigious institutions, such as The Make-A-Wish Foundation at mega-mansions in Las Vegas, NV, the goal has always been the same for Roberson, and that is to help as many people as possible using the gifts that God has blessed him with.
Tuan Nguyen – CFO
Tuan D. Nguyen, ALM, is an award-winning and transformational c-suite leader. Founder, Chairman, and CEO of the Asian-American National Committee, Inc. (AANC). A “Make It Matter” business, healthcare, and civil rights leader and subject-matter expert with over 25 years of experience as a resourceful and thinking-outside-the-box Chairman and CEO.
Founded in 2000, the AANC is a national nonprofit, non-partisan 501(c)(3) federal tax-exempt and bona fide organization, functioning as a national educational, health care, business and legal services, political, privacy/civil rights, and advocacy organization. Officially representing all Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, Native Americans, and others and their businesses throughout the United States. The AANC collaborates and partners closely with well-known federal, state, and local governments, leaders, and organizations throughout the United States, along with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), ECOSOC, etc. The AANC is a private-public partnership and an official NGO of the United States government.
Board of Directors
Ted Terrazas
Mr. Terrazas grew up as a Hispanic but was told he was adopted at age 30 upon both his mother and father passing away. He decided to find his birth parents. He found his birth father in Albuquerque, New Mexico. It was then he was told his grandmother was born and raised on a Najovo Reservation. He later had his DNA done, which validated he was 36% Native American. Today, he is the Sr VP of Medical Services for Chenega Corporation, an Alaskan Tribal Company. Headquartered in Anchorage, Alaska.
Dorothy Dupree
Dorothy Dupree, a member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine Sioux Tribes, has an extensive background in Health Care Administration, Health Care Policy, Quality of Care Standards, and Tribal Self Determination & Self Governance. She served for 10 years as the Senior Policy Advisor, Tribal Health to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). It was in this capacity that she established the Office of Tribal Affairs and the Tribal Technical Advisory Group, which advises CMS on health policy.
Ms. Dupree has served as an Indian Health Service (IHS) Area Director in four Areas: Albuquerque, Tucson, Phoenix, and Billings. She served at IHS HQs, where she laid the groundwork for the establishment of the IHS National Quality Office. In her efforts to lead change and improve the quality of care, she is often heard reminding others that “This work is not about me; It’s not about you; it’s about the quality of care and service to our people.”
Advisory Committee
Theda NewBreast
Theda was born and raised on the Blackfeet Reservation in Montana, with a relocation experience in the S.F. Bay area during the Civil Rights Movement, entering UC Berkeley at 17 years old and receiving her B.S.W. & M.P.H. in Health Promotion and Prevention. Theda is a founding board member and master trainer/facilitator for the Native Wellness Institute (N.W.I.) 1988-present. She is also a board member of the Sovereign Bodies Institute (S.B.I.), launched in 2019, builds on Indigenous traditions of data gathering and knowledge transfer to create, disseminate, and put into healing on gender, sexual violence against Indigenous people and MMIWG (Missing Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls).
Eddie Tantoco
Over the last decade, Eddie has had the good fortune of working with the world's best doctors, scientists, and engineers, as well as business, government, military, and law enforcement leaders, who are making a significant and positive impact on humanity in healthcare, medicine, cleaning the environment, and protecting people and animals from man-made toxins in the air, water, and ground.
The primary mission and passion of Eddie's global team, which has millions of followers, is to continually educate and provide the best solutions to humanity while creating jobs and business opportunities for all people. Eddie is a CPA with an extensive background in successful business development for over three decades as a corporate officer of two major global corporations.
Would you like to join us on our mission? Reach out to us at (210) 837-8684 to find out how you can contribute to the betterment of Native American lives through Tribal Aid Benefit Concerts.