Alicia Bata
Alicia D. Bata teaches for the Valley-Edinburg school district on interactive television to high school students in Edinburg, Park River and Grafton schools.
She was elected and served as the NEA Director for ND for two terms. She was appointed by NEA’s president to serve on the Human and Civil Rights Committee in Washington, D.C., also for two terms. She was selected to participate in the Magna Carta Human Rights Project by NEA, in conjunction with the National Union of Teachers (NUT) in England. She was voted by her peers on the NEA Board to be a delegate representing the U.S. at the World Congress of Education in South Africa. Bata is a national trainer on the NEA Cultural Competence team.
Bata was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her first university degree was as a literary English/Spanish translator (Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires). She received her Bachelor of Arts degree, teaching certificate, ESL/Bilingual endorsement, and Master of Science degree in Education with a cognate in Bilingual Education from the University of North Dakota. She is married to an ND farmer, Bill, and has four children and six grandchildren.
Dawn Hintz
Dawn Hintz has been at Bismarck High School since 1996, teaching mathematics. Her husband, Dave, works for Carestream Health and maintains X-ray equipment. Their daughter, Amanda, graduated from NDSU in Ag Business and recently was married. They also have a son, Cameron, who is in his fourth year at BSC for Cyber Security and works full-time at Bobcat. They are “empty nesters” except for the two dogs that run the household.
Hintz has been a member of NEA since she was a senior at Minot State University in 1992. Both of her parents were teachers. She was the local secretary at a school in Eureka, Nev., I have been a building rep for BHS for the last five years and have served as Bismarck’s treasurer for the last year.
On the state level, she has served on the resolutions committee for the last three years.
She was honored to be an ND rep at the NEA RA for the last four years now. The first RA she attended was in Chicago in 2022. Now, she said, she knows who is on the ND delegation and they have been able to work together for what is good for ND and what is good for education.
Angel Lindseth
Angel Lindseth serves on the North Dakota United Board as the K–12 Less than 600 Director, representing educators and advocating for strong rural schools across the state. She is also president of the Hope-Page Education Association, where she serves as lead negotiator, and president of the North Dakota School Counselor Association. Her passion is leading and representing teachers and school counselors across North Dakota.
Angel is a K–12 school counselor at the Hope-Page School District in eastern North Dakota, where she is dedicated to supporting students’ academic success, social-emotional growth, and postsecondary planning.
She has proudly represented North Dakota educators at the NEA RA in Orlando, Philadelphia and Portland, and looks forward to attending Denver this summer. She values the opportunity to serve in the RA’s governing body, ensuring educator voices are heard in shaping school safety, funding, and education policy.
Angel earned her bachelor’s degrees in Elementary Education and Psychology from Valley City State University and her master’s degree in School Counseling from the University of Mary.
Angel and her husband live in Page.
Brenda Seehafer
Brenda Seehafer is an elementary Title I teacher from Rolla, where she has been teaching for the last 23 years. She previously taught at Wolford and also worked at the UND Lake Region College Library. Seehafer has a degree in Elementary Education from Minot State University.
She is currently the NDU Foundation president, where she fulfills many duties and works closely with NDU staff on many aspects of the grant and scholarship program.
She serves NDU on the UPAC Committee, the Resolutions Committee and is a member of the Advocacy “A” Team. During the last legislative session, she also served as a political member organizer for NDU. She is a former NEA Director from North Dakota and formerly served on the NDU Board of Directors.
Brenda is currently on the NEA RA Transformation workforce committee, which is a committee that was appointed by NEA President Becky Pringle. She is also a facilitator for online book studies for NDU’s Professional Development department. She has been co-captain of the Political Action Committee representing ND since 2021.
Brenda is also active at the local level. She is the Rolla Education Association president and is also a local bargainer.
