Lorna Fast Buffalo Horse is the High School Program Director at LEP High.  Before coming to LEP High this year, Lorna was co-Founder and Principal of Spanish English International School (SEIS), a small school on the Roosevelt Campus of Portland Public Schools. Her 20-year career has included teaching and administrative work at grades K-12, adult education, and teacher education, including work as Coordinator of ESL, Bilingual, Migrant, and Indian Education in Shelton, WA, Director of a high school Multicultural Center, Title VII Coordinator, VISTA Volunteer, and Adjunct Professor in the graduate Teacher Education programs at Lewis and Clark College and Portland State University.  She has also taught classes at Portland Community College, Mt. Hood Community College, and Northwest Indian College.  She has given over 40 workshops, presentations, and lectures on the topics of multicultural education, literacy, and small schools in Oregon, Washington, Utah, and Arizona and has recently published an article on these topics in the Annenberg Institute’s Voices in Urban Education. She holds a Master’s in Teaching from Willamette University and has completed additional course work in Educational Administration.  She and her husband, Sam, have three teenage boys and live in Portland.