Meet the Staff

Becci Sullivan
OSNI/PEDCO CEO

Becci is a proud member of the Ponca Tribe of NE and the CEO of Osni and PEDCO. She has over 20 years of Tribal Council and Tribal Administrative experience; and 20 years in management and analytics. Becci has a bachelor’s degree in education from Wayne State College and two master’s degrees in business administration and business management from Bellevue University.

Grants Manager

Tom McCauley serves as grants manager for the Ponca Economic Development Corporation. With over a decade of experience in grant-writing, grantmaking, and grants management, Tom brings energy, enthusiasm, and expertise to PEDCO's mission to creatively seek long-term sufficiency for citizens of the Ponca Tribe, create opportunities that improve the quality of life for all natives, and provide business and employment opportunities to stimulate economic growth and self-sufficiency.

Before joining PEDCO, Tom worked as grant writer for the nonprofit AIM Institute; taught creative writing and contemporary literature at UMass Amherst and the University of Nebraska at Omaha; served as grants manager for the Nebraska Arts Council; wrote grants and speeches for the City of Omaha Mayor's Office; and was a copywriter at the digital advertising agency Phenomblue.

In addition to his career in the nonprofit and government sectors, Tom is a Pushcart Prize-nominated writer and musician whose work has appeared in Willow Springs, Superstition Review, Leveler and What Rough Beast. His essay “Introductory Element Comma Independent Clause: a Study of the Moon and Bees” was nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize and received an honorable mention in The Best American Essays 2021 anthology; his poem “People Are Not Lights” won the 2018 Joseph Langland Prize from the Academy of American Poets. In 2012, he wrote and performed the musical score for Constance Congdon’s play “Tales of the Lost Formicans” for the Great Plains Theatre Conference, and in 2018, he was a writer-in-residence at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center of Nebraska City. He received an MFA in writing from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Intern
Claudia is currently attending The University of Nebraska- Lincoln with the goal of getting a bachelor’s in fine arts. She is a part of the Youth Council as the Vice-Chairwoman and now interns within the OSNI Ponca and PEDCO companies. She is honored to be a member of the team and can't wait to do so many things for the Tribe and community.