People
People
Faculty
Bonnie Duran, DrPH (Opelousas/Coushatta)
Director, IWRI Center for Indigenous Health Research
Professor, School of Social Work, University of Washington
Karina L. Walters, PhD (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)
Co-Director, Indigenous Wellness Research Institute
Associate Dean of Research, School of Social Work, University of Washington
Tessa Evans-Campbell, PhD (Snohomish)
Co-Director, Indigenous Wellness Research Institute
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, 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
Myra Parker, JD, PhD (Mandan & Hidatsa)
Associate Director, IWRI Community Engagement and Outreach Core
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington
Mike Spencer, PhD, MSW (Native Hawaiian)
Director of Native Hawaiian, Pacific Islander, and Oceanic Affairs, IWRI
Presidental Term Professor, Univeristy of Washington School of Social Work
Staff
Chris Charles (Cowichan, Nanaimo, & Duwamish)
Research Coordinator, IWRI
Leo Egashira, MBA
Research Coordinator, IWRI
Maya Magarati, PhD (Indigenous Nepali)
Research Scientist, IWRI Community Engagement and Outreach Core
Lecturer, School of Social Work, University of Washington
Lucy Smartlowit-Briggs, MA, MSW (Confederated Tribes and Bands of the Yakama Nation)
Research Coordinator, IWRI
Jordan Green
Research Coordinator, My PEEPS Project
Students
Angela Fernandez, PhC MSW (Menominee)
Indigenous Social Welfare PhD Student, IWRI
Matthew Ignacio, MSW (Tohono O’odham)
PhD Student, IWRI
Trainees
Angela Fernandez, PhC MSW (Menominee)
Indigenous Social Welfare PhD Student, IWRI
Myra Parker, JD, PhD (Mandan & Hidatsa)
Associate Director, IWRI Community Engagement and Outreach Core
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington
Melissa L. Walls PhD (Bois Forte and Couchiching First Nations Anishinabe)
Associate Professor, Department of Biobehavioral Health and Population Sciences at the University of Minnesota Medical School-Duluth
Roberto Orellana, PhD
Associate Professor, Social Work at Portland State University
