Indigenous Research Trainees

Tessa Evans-Campbell, PhD (Snohomish)

Co-Director, Indigenous Wellness Research Institute

Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, School of Social Work, University of Washington

tecamp@uw.edu

Michelle Johnson-Jennings, PhD (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)

Assistant Professor, Pharmacy Practice and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Minnesota

Ramona Beltrán, PhD, MSW (Yaqui/Mexica)

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver

Maya Magarati, PhD (Indigenous Nepali)

Research Scientist, IWRI Community Engagement and Outreach Core

Lecturer, School of Social Work, University of Washington

Felicia M. Mitchell, PhD (Chickasaw, Black, White

Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Arizona State University

Misty Pacheco, DrPH (Hawaiian, Japanese, White)

Assistant Professor, Kinesiology and Exercise Science Department, Health Promotion track, University of Hawaii at Hilo

Margaret Robinson, PhD (Mi’kmaw from Eski’kewaq, Nova Scotia, and Member, Lennox Island First Nation)

Assistant Professor, Indigenous Studies in the Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology, Dalhousie University

Myra Parker, JD, PhD (Mandan & Hidatsa)

Associate Director, IWRI Community Engagement and Outreach Core

Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington

myrap@uw.edu

Vanessa Simonds, ScD (Crow Tribe)

Assistant Professor, Community Health, Montana State University

Angela Walden, PhD (Cherokee Nation)

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Institute for Juvenile Research, University of Illinois at Chicago

Antonia R.G. Alvarez, LMSW (Mestiza Pinay)

Doctoral Student, School of Social Work, University of Denver

Ashley Cole, M.S. (Citizen Potawatomi Nation)

Jerreed Ivanich, M.S. (Alaskan Native – Tsimshian)

Doctoral Student, Sociology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln

Danica Brown, MSW (Choctaw)

Jessica Hope Elm, PhC, MSW (Oneida)

PhD , Social Welfare

jelm@uw.edu

Roberto Orellana, PhD

Associate Professor, Social Work at Portland State University

Katie Schultz, PhD, MSW (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)

Matthew Town, PhD, MPH (Choctaw)

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Shanondora Billiot, PhD (United Houma Nation)

Angela Fernandez, PhC MSW (Menominee)

Indigenous Social Welfare PhD Student, IWRI

Raven Ross, PhD

Ciwang Teyra, PhD, MSW

Jessica Black, MSW (Gwich’in Athabascan)

PhD Candidate, Washington University in St. Louis Brown School

Emma Elliott-Groves, PhD, MSW (Cowichan)

Migis Gonzalez, MPH

Melissa Lewis, PhD (Cherokee Nation)

Miriam Valvidinos, PhD

Ashleigh Coser (Muscogee (Creek), Choctaw, and Chickasaw Nations)

Doctoral student, Psychology, Oklahoma State University

Laverne Demientieff, LMSW, PhD

Clinical Associate Professor, Department of Social Work, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Danielle R. Eakins

Doctoral student, Psychology, University of Washington

Matthew Ignacio, MSW (Tohono O’odham)

PhD Student, IWRI