Joseph McNeil is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, General Manager of the SAGE Development Authority, President of Standing Rock Development Corp/Rock Industries Corp. and Chairman for the Oyate CDFI/CU in Ft. Yates, N.D. He is married to Sheridan McNeil and share four children. He was recently awarded the Bush Foundation Fellowship for leadership (2019), M.I.T. Oceti Sakowin Inaugural Fellow (2018), is active for Indigenous rights, and community economic development. He earned his B.S. in Business Administration from Sitting Bull College. He is a former member of the Standing Rock Tribal Council, Sitting Bull College Board of Directors and as a member of the Wind Energy Tribes United.