Partnerships
Advisory Members // INSPIRE
INSPIRE - Executive Committee
Tessa Evans-Campbell, PhD (Snohomish)
Executive Co-Director, Indigenous Wellness Research Institute
Charles O. Cressey Endowed Associate Prof., School of Social Work, University of Washington
Michelle Johnson-Jennings, PhD (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)
Executive Co-director, Indigenous Wellness Research Institute
Professor, University of Washington School of Social Work
Director, Environmentally based Health & Land-based Healing, IWRI
E. Roberto Orellana, PhD
Professor, School of Social Work, University of Washington
Director, LUNA Program
Affiliated Faculty, Indigenous Wellness Research Institute
PhD Program Director, School of Social Work, University of Washington
Cynthia R. Pearson, PhD
Director of Research, IWRI
Research Associate Professor, School of Social Work, Univeristy of Washington
Judith Tsui, MD, MPH
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, University of Washington
Denise Walker, PhD
Research Professor, School of Social Work, University of Washington
INSPIRE - Native Expert Community Advisory Panel
Danica Brown, PhD, MSW (Choctaw)
Behavioral Health Manager, Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board
Pilot Project, Every Day is Ceremony: Accessing Traditional Indigenous Knowledge to Heal Trauma and Improve Health and Wellbeing in Tribal Communities
Primary mentor, Melissa Walls, PhD, Associate Professor, International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Fransing Daisy, PhD (Cree)
Coordinator, American Indian/Alaska Native Programs Northwest AIDS Education and Training Center
Sharon Day (Boise Fort Ojibwe)
Executive Director , Indigenous Peoples Task Force (IPTF)
Hamen Ides, (Lummi)
Founder and Executive Director, Ti-Chee Native AIDS Prevention
Antony Stately, PhD (Ojibwe/Oneida)
CEO, Native American Community Clinic
Sandra Stroud (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)
Project Director, Yappalli
INSPIRE - Scientific and Community Leadership Council
Julie Baldwin, PhD
Regents' Professor, Department of Health Sciences, Northern Arizona University
Director, Center for Health Equity Research (CHER), Northern Arizona University
Denise A. Dillard, PhD
Director of Research, Southcentral Foundation
, Native-CHART, Washington State University
Geri Donenberg, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Co-Vice Chair of Research, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago
Director, Center for Dissemination and Implementation Science and the Healthy Youths Program, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois at Chicago
Bonnie Duran, DrPH (Opelousas/Coushatta)
Director, IWRI Center for Indigenous Health Research (ret'd)
Professor, School of Social Work, University of Washington (ret'd)
Tommi Gaines, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease and Global Public Health, University of California San Diego
Lonnie Nelson, PhD
Associate Professor, College of Nursing, Washington State University
Douglas Novins, MD
Professor, Psychiatry-NATP, School of Medicine, University of Colorado
Scott Okamoto PH.D., MSW
Professor, School of Social Work, Hawai'i Pacific University
Myra Parker, JD, PhD (Mandan & Hidatsa)
Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington
Director, Seven Directions, Center for the Study of Health and Risk Behaviors
Randall C. Swaim, PhD
Research Scientist, Department of Psychology, Colorado State University
Kamilla Venner, PhD
Associate Professor, Psychology, University of New Mexico
Melissa L. Walls PhD (Bois Forte and Couchiching First Nations Anishinabe)
Director, Great Lakes Hub for the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health
Associate Professor, International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Nancy Rumbaugh Whitesell, PhD
Associate Professor, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
INSPIRE - Scientific Mentor Network
Ramona Beltrán, PhD, MSW (Chicana, Indigenous Mexican descent)
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver
Peter Mataira, PhD (Maori)
MSW Program Director and Associate Professor, Hawai'i Pacific University College of Health and Society - School of Social Work