Rodina Cave Parnall (Quechua) is the Executive Director of the American Indian Law Center, Inc., which conducts the Pre-Law Summer Institute for American Indians and Alaska Natives. Rodina served, by Presidential appointment, as Senior Policy Advisor to the Assistant Secretary-Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior. Before that, she practiced law in New Mexico and Arizona representing Indian tribes and tribal entities in legal and administrative proceedings. Previously, Rodina served as an adjunct professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law and associate judge on the Southwest Intertribal Court of Appeals (SWITCA). She graduated from the Arizona State University College of Law with a Certificate in Indian Law and the 2001 Outstanding Law Graduate Award. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Rodina clerked for the Honorable William C. Canby, Jr. on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Rodina is the recipient of the 2014 New Mexico State Bar Indian Law Section Attorney Achievement Award, the 2025 National Native American Bar Association Justice is Medicine Community Keeper Award, and the 2025 Arizona State Bar Rodney B. Lewis Award for Excellence in Indian Law.