Tamera Dawes is a Regional Realty Specialist with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Western Regional Office, in Phoenix, Arizona. A graduate of Arizona State University, Tamera has over 20 years of experience working in the non-profit, tribal, private, and federal arena with specific attention to environmental land use planning, economic development and policy development and analysis. Currently, Tamera is the Western Regional Office contact for rights-of-way, land use planning, and energy related transactions over Indian trust lands.