BIOGRAPHY

June Noronha joined the Foundation in 2005 as strategic officer and helped design a strategic direction for the Foundation. She now serves as senior manager with the Native Nations Team.

Previously, June was associate dean for multicultural education at the University of St. Catherine, responsible for policy planning and program development on diversity and international issues on campus. She served on that faculty and on the faculty at the University of Minnesota and Macalester College in Minnesota. She has also held executive positions in the St. Paul Public Schools and the Minneapolis City Coordinator’s Office. June has held and been honored for several regional and national leadership positions in the United States in the field of international and multicultural education. She represented the United States for the U.S. State Department supporting U.S. interests in indigenous rights and international exchanges in Asia, Africa and Central America.

She presently serves on the board of trustees of World Education Services (U.S. and Canada), National Philanthropic Trust (PA) and the Minnesota Council on Foundations.

Born in Kenya, June has studied in Kenya, France, Canada and the United States, and worked in Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East. Her academic background is in French and intercultural communication. Her undergraduate work was at Macalester College, and Universite d’Aix in Avignon, France; her graduate work was at the University of Minnesota and the McGregor School at Antioch University, U.S. She has also attended the Carlson School at the University of Minnesota and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University for executive education.

June is passionate about bridging divides, music of all genres, traditional forms of art, being outdoors, life in different countries, and most of all, her family and her son, Nicholas, who is a college senior majoring in Chinese.