Kirk Shaw and Luke Revard will receive Oklahoma’s NextGen Under 30 Award for their talent, drive and community service efforts. The awards recognize the next generation of leaders and achievers across multiple industries.
Shaw serves as the Wahzhazhe Health Center’s Clinic Administrator and Revard serves as the Marketing Programming Specialist at Osage Casinos. They are two of 484 young professionals selected based by a panel of respected business and civic leaders, according to a release.
Shaw was hired by the former ON Health Authority Board in 2020 and began his career with the Osage Nation in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Prior to working with the WZZHC, he worked at the Oklahoma City Area IHS office. He has his bachelor’s degree in business management from Oklahoma State University and a master’s degree in business administration from Southeastern Oklahoma State University. In 2022, Shaw received the “Future Five” award from the Medical Group Management Association – a group that represents more than 350,000 doctors and 60,000 medical administrators nationwide.
Revard began his career at Osage Casinos shortly after his graduation from Oklahoma State University and has served in the marketing department since 2023. In a prepared release from Osage Casinos, Revard said “I am honored to receive this award and opportunity to represent the Osage Nation. Thanks to the support of my team at Osage Casinos and my tribe, I will continue to learn new things and challenge my skills. This is just the beginning of my career, and I look forward to my next chapter as I continue to support the Osage Nation.”
Now in its thirteenth year, NextGen Under 30 recognizes and encourages the next generation of innovative, creative, and inspiring individuals who push the boundaries in various categories of endeavor across the state. The award was founded to identify and honor talented young Oklahomans and encourage them to follow their lifetime family and career goals in Oklahoma.
Shaw and Revard will be recognized at the annual NextGen Award Ceremony. This year’s celebration will take place on November 15 at the Embassy Suites Hotel in Norman. In addition to the celebration, Shaw and Revard will have the opportunity to attend networking events at the Oklahoma State Capitol and an emerging leader’s summit.
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Shannon Shaw Duty, Osage from the Grayhorse District, is the editor of the award-winning Osage News, the official independent media of the Osage Nation. She is a graduate of the University of Oklahoma with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism and a master’s degree in Legal Studies with an emphasis in Indigenous Peoples Law. She currently sits on the Freedom of Information Committee for the Society of Professional Journalists. She has served as a board member for LION Publishers, as Vice President for the Pawhuska Public Schools Board of Education, on the Board of Directors for the Native American Journalists Association (now Indigenous Journalists Association) and served as a board member and Chairwoman for the Pawhuska Johnson O’Malley Parent Committee. She is a Chips Quinn Scholar, a former instructor for the Freedom Forum’s Native American Journalism Career Conference and the Freedom Forum’s American Indian Journalism Institute. She is a former reporter for The Santa Fe New Mexican. She is a 2012 recipient of the Native American 40 Under 40 from the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development. In 2014 she helped lead the Osage News to receive NAJA's Elias Boudinot Free Press Award. The Osage News won Best Newspaper from the SPJ-Oklahoma Chapter in their division 2018-2022. Her award-winning work has been published in Indian Country Today, The Washington Post, the Center for Public Integrity, NPR, the Associated Press, Tulsa World and others. She currently resides in Pawhuska, Okla., with her husband and together they share six children, two dogs and two cats.
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