ISMART-Scientific Mentor Network
August 15, 2017
Nancy Rumbaugh Whitesell, PhD
Dr. Whitesell’s work focuses on child and adolescent development within the contexts of American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) communities. Her research projects apply developmental science to inform preventive interventions to improve outcomes for both young children (birth to five years) and young adolescents (10 to 14 years). Through her leadership role in the Tribal…
Joseph P. Gone, PhD
Joseph P. Gone, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Psychology University of Michigan Email: jgone@umich.edu
Ramona Beltrán, PhD, MSW (Chicana, Indigenous Mexican descent)
Ramona Beltrán’s Ramona Beltran, (Chicana, Indigenous Mexican descent) scholarship focuses on the intersections of historical trauma, embodiment, and environmental/social determinants of health as they affect health and risk behaviors in indigenous communities. She is particularly interested in centering cultural protective factors, strengths and resiliencies in indigenous populations as they work to interrupt the intergenerational transmission…
August 7, 2017
Jane Simoni, PhD
Jane M. Simoni, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and a Director of Clinical Training in the Departments of Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle. She directs the Behavioral Science Core of the UW CFAR. Her research has focused on behavioral aspects of HIV treatment, with NIMH-funded intervention studies in New York City, Seattle,…
August 3, 2017
Melissa L. Walls PhD (Bois Forte and Couchiching First Nations Anishinabe)
Melissa L. Walls Ph.D. (Bois Forte and Couchiching First Nations Anishinabe) is a social scientist committed to collaborative research and has over a decade of experience working with tribal communities in the United States and Canada. Her involvement in community-based participatory research (CBPR) projects to date includes mental health epidemiology; culturally-relevant, family-based substance use prevention…
July 28, 2017
Michelle Johnson-Jennings, PhD (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)
July 7, 2017
Tessa Evans-Campbell, PhD (Snohomish)
Associate Professor Tessa Evans-Campbell is the director of the School’s MSW program. She completed her BA in art history at the University of Washington and her MSW at the University of California Los Angeles. Her research interests focus on historical trauma, resistance and healing; cultural buffers of trauma; substance use and mental health; and indigenous…
April 6, 2017
Karina L. Walters, PhD (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)
Biography Karina L. Walters, an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is the Associate Dean for Research, the Katherine Hall Chambers Scholar, and the Co-Director and Principal Investigator of the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (IWRI; NIMHD P60MD006909). IWRI is one of 16 National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities Comprehensive Centers of…
