Mr. Lindy B. Waters, Jr. M.Ed (Kiowa/Cherokee) is currently the Associate Director of Student Life and Executive Director of McNair Scholars Program at The University of Oklahoma. He also is the Director of the American Indian Student Life at OU. He is formerly the Director of the Upward Bound Programs at the University of Colorado-Boulder from 1993 to 2001. He was President of the ASPIRE Regional TRIO Organization (2000 – 2001). He was a former COE Executive Board Member (1999 – 2001) and he was a former trainer for the ASPIRE TRIO Training Institute and the Salish Kootnai Tribal College TRIO Training Institute on Retaining and Graduating Indigenous Students. Lindy received his Bachelors in Business from Southern Nazarene University, and his Masters in Education from The University of Oklahoma.