Indigenous Research Trainees // Indigenous Substance Abuse, Medicines, and Health Research Training (ISMART)

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

Jessica Hope Elm, PhD MSW (Oneida)

PhD , Social Welfare

jelm@uw.edu

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

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

Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, University of Michigan

Matthew Town, PhD, MPH (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)

Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health, Pacific University Oregon

Shanondora Billiot, PhD (United Houma Nation)

Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Arizona State University

Angela Fernandez, PhD, MPH, LCSW (Menominee)

Program Officer, NIMHD

Withdrew from INSPIRE,

Primary Mentor, Lonnie Nelson, Associate Professor, Washington State University College of Nursing

Raven Ross, PhD

Evaluation and Efficiency Officer, Office of Quality, Indian Health Service

Ciwang Teyra, PhD, MSW

Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, National Taiwan University

Jessica Black, PhD, MSW (Gwich’in Athabascan)

Assistant Professor, Alaska Native Studies and Rural Development, University of Alaska Fairbanks

Emma Elliott-Groves, PhD, MSW (Cowichan)

Assistant Professor, College of Education, University of Washington

Migis Gonzalez, PhD, MPH

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Family Medicine and BioBehavioral Health, Medical School, University of Minnesota, Duluth

Melissa Lewis, PhD (Cherokee Nation)

Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Missouri

Miriam Valdovinos, PhD

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Social Work University of Denver

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

Psychologist, Cherokee Nation Health Services

Laverne Demientieff, LMSW, PhD

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

Danielle R. Eakins, PhD

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Matthew Ignacio, MSW (Tohono O’odham)

PhD Student, IWRI

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

Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Portland State University

Ashley Cole, PhD (Citizen Potawatomi Nation)

Assistant Professor, Psychology, Oklahoma State University

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

Assistant Professor, Colorado School of Public Health

Ricky Camplain, PhD

Assistant Professor, Center for Health Equity Research, Northern Arizona University

Charles Lea, PhD

Assistant Professor, Graduate College of Social Work, University of Houston

Araceli Orozco, MSW (Mexican Indigenous)

PhD Candidate, School of Social Work, University of Washington, Seattle

Sarah Rhoades-Kerswill, PhD (Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma)

Psychologist, Chickasaw Nation Department of Family Services

Lisa M. Colon

Doctoral student, Adjunct Faculty, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver

Emily Loerzel, MSW

PhD Candidate, School of Social Work, University of Washington

Helen Russette

PhD student, School of Public and Community Health Sciences, University of Montana

Jessica Saniġaq Ullrich, PhD (Nome Eskimo Community)

Assistant Professor , Washington State University, iREACH Program

Pilot Project, Co-Developing a Connectedness Curriculum for Personal and Collective Wellbeing

Primary Mentor, Dolores Subia Bigfoot, PhD, Professor, Pediatrics University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center

Evan J. White, PhD

Associate Investigator, Laureate Institute for Brain Research