Jancita Warrington currently serves Governor Kelly as the Executive Director of Native American Affairs for the state of Kansas. She was born and raised on the Menominee Reservation in northern Wisconsin. She descends from the Menominee, Potawatomi and Ho-Chunk Nations. She holds an undergraduate degree in American Indian Studies and degrees in Tribal Law & Policy and Cultural Preservation-Museum Management from the University of Kansas.

She has used her education to work politically on a broad range of national issues with a particular focus on strengthening sovereignty of Tribal Nations. She has served as both a Tribal Council member and as the National Graves and Repatriation (NAGPRA) official. In 2013 she was named a recipient of the National Center for American Indian Economic Development 40 under 40 achievement award.

Jancita has served in various public service positions throughout her career. Notably serving as the Haskell Cultural Center & Museum Director and as the Indigenous consultant for the University of Kansas' Lied Center on an Andrew W. Mellon grant, the KU School of Dance and for the Chicago Childrens Theatre. In 2019 she was presented the Phoenix Award by the City of Lawrence as an outstanding cultural arts educator. In 2020 she was selected as the Hall Center for the Humanities Simmons Public Fellow and conducted her fellowship with the University of Kansas.