TriSec Appreciation Luncheon Speaker: Bernadine Vigue

TriSec Appreciation Luncheon Speaker Bernadine Vigue is an enrolled member of the Oneida Tribe of Indians and was raised on the Menominee Indian Reservation in Wisconsin. She has more than twenty years of experience as an educator and counselor, providing academic, personal and career advising to diverse range of students. Currently, Mrs. Vigue serves as a Multicultural Academic Advisor and Instructor of English in the English Language Learns (ELL) Program at Northeastern Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC) in Green Bay, Wisconsin where she counsels at-risk students in personal and academic crisis, retains American Indian students, and provides English speaking and writing skills to students from all ethnic and racial backgrounds. She has also taught courses in Psychology, Human Relations, and Race, Ethnicity and Diversity at NWTC.

Previously, Mrs. Vigue was an Advisor in the American Intercultural Center at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. In this position, she offered counseling services to American Indian students, designed recruitment and retention programs for at-risk students, and developed cultural programming to increase awareness of Wisconsin Indian history and tribal sovereignty. Mrs. Vigue has served as Secretary of the Wisconsin Indian Education Association, board member of the Oneida Child Care Center and Oneida Head Start Policy Council, and Diversity Advisor to the Brown County Family Services Association. She an active member of the ELL Statewide Curriculum Steering Committee, Wisconsin Association of Academic Advising and the Wisconsin Indian Education Association. Mrs. Vigue received her Masters of Science in Counselor Education from the University of Wisconsin and Bachelors of Arts from St. Norbert College.