Board of Directors

Board Member

Chantel Greene is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Xexus Greene Energy LLC. 100% Native American and Woman owned consulting company and Founder of Non-profit GreeneLife Philanthropic. President of Sidney Resource Corporation, a publicly traded company, and a Nez Perce Tribal Member.

Currently, serves on the advisory committees for The Center for Tribal Nations (CTNAC) through ATNI, Idaho Energy Freedom Advisory Group, Board of Directors 501c4 for Conservation Voters of Idaho, and Idaho Geothermal Rising.

She served a three (3) year term, 2018-2021, as the elected Vice-Chairwoman of the Nez Perce Tribal Council, (NPTEC). Requested to serve as a member of the 2022 Energy Infrastructure Task Force through the Idaho Governor’s Office of Energy and Mineral Resources. She was selected to serve on the Idaho Governor Little's COVID-19 Financial Cares Committee. Served on the 2021 Northwest CASC Deep Dive: Managing Climate Change Impacts on Stream Permanence. She was selected to give written and oral testimony in Washington, DC, to the United States House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies 2020.

She is an awarded recipient and selected Fellow of the 2021-2022 Tribal Solar Accelerator Fund through GRID Alternatives Tribal Energy Innovators Fellowship Program. She successfully completed the solar and energy storage resiliency project for the Nez Perce Tribe with the first Idaho Tribal Tesla Megapacks. The solar resiliency project included service learning and workforce development for Tribal members. Some of her policy work and testimony provided to the Idaho State Senate, Human Resource Subcommittee, and Natural Resource Subcommittee for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Peoples, leading to the passage of Resolution HCR033 and the Dental Health Aide Therapy Idaho Bill rule passage creating DHAT Idaho healthcare provider program.

Greene holds a Master of Legal Studies in Indigenous Peoples Law from the University of Oklahoma, a Bachelor of Arts in Indigenous American Indian Studies with an emphasis in Environmental Justice from Haskell Indian Nations University, and an Associate of Science, Health, Sport, and Exercise Science degree also from Haskell Indian Nations University.