Since then, we have consistently attracted individuals — senior communication professionals — from various disciplines who share our passion, interest-in, and respect for culture and the intangible threads that tie people and traditions together.

Meet our core team of award-winning professionals

John Dione (Keh:henkiate), Principal and President
Our resident sage and an active member of the Mohawk and Aboriginal community; John gives the EarthLore team and our clients immediate access to over 30 years of well-rounded experience dealing with a host of business, financial, administrative, and cultural challenges.

Don Runge, Principal and Managing Partner
Don brings sharp, incisive thinking to our campaigns, honed from over 20 years experience working as a strategic marketing consultant on many high profile tourism, publishing, high-technology, special events and Aboriginal campaigns.

Anna Tyers, Principal and Managing Partner
An award-winning designer and illustrator with over 20 years experience, Anna has evolved from ‘on the board’ design work to a respected and much sought after consultant for her leadership and expertise on Native communication and language issues.

Sid Lee, Creative Director
Renowned for his rich, visually stunning treatments of difficult subject matter, Sid brings a potent mix of traditional print and new media expertise to our clients varied communication needs — all backed by over 20 years progressive experience as an international award-winning creative solution provider.

Barb Barkley, Production Coordinator
Barb leverages over 25 years of solid experience in the communications industry to spearhead the seamless, reliable delivery of EarthLore’s communication expertise to our varied client base.

Dorothy Dione, Principal and Manager, Administration
Dorothy brings invaluable insight to a broad range of language and cultural issues. She is a crucial sounding board for much of our creative, ensuring we are the architects of culturally appropriate solutions, in addition to ensuring our firm is administratively sound and efficient.

Delia Coates, Senior Designer
Delia's 20 years experience encompassing a solid variety of disciplines within the design industry brings extensive insight, creativity and inspiration to meet our client's specific needs. Her innovative treatment of layout, typography and information graphics makes Delia an invaluable resource to the Earthlore team.

Mark Strong, Production Artist
Mark brings over a decade of agency experience, producing and developing numerous layouts in variety of contemperary publishing software applications.

Robert Ramsay, Illustrator, Senior Designer
With over 15 years of illustration and design experience, Robert brings an innate knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal issues to the Earthlore Team.