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Indigenous Research Trainees // INSPIRE
INSPIRE - Cohort 1
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
Carolyn Camplain, J.D. (Comanche, non-tribally affiliated)
Research Coordinator, Sr., Center for Health Equity Research, Northern Arizona University
Pilot Project, Health and Healthcare in Tribal Jails: Physical, Mental, and Behavioral Health and Healthcare in the Hualapai Tribal Jails
Primary Mentor, Wadiya Udell, Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences, University of Washington Bothell
Jennifer Richards, PhD, MPH (Diné/Lakota/Taos)
Assistant Scientist, Center for American Indian Health, John Hopkins University
Primary mentor, Michelle Sarche, PhD, Associate Professor, Centers for American Indian & Alaska Native Health Department of Community & Behavioral Health Indian Center, Colorado School of Public Health
INSPIRE - Cohort 2
Antonia R.G. Alvarez, LMSW, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work, Portland State University
Pilot Project, Harvest Season: Developing a Conceptual Model from the Binhi Food Sovereignty Project
Primary Mentor, Michelle Johnson-Jennings, PhD, Professor, School of Social Work, University of Washington
Angela Fernandez, PhD, MPH, LCSW (Menominee)
Program Officer, NIMHD
, Withdrew from INSPIRE,
Primary Mentor, Lonnie Nelson, Associate Professor, Washington State University College of Nursing
Joanna La Torre, LCSW
Doctoral student, School of Social Work, University of Washington
Primary Mentor, Karina L. Walters, PhD, Professor, School of Social Work, University of Washington
Jessica Saniġaq Ullrich, PhD (Nome Eskimo Community)
Assistant Professor , School of Social Work, University of Alaska Anchorage
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
INSPIRE - Cohort 3
Tess Abrahamson-Richards, MPH (Spokane)
PhD Student, School of Social Work, University of Washington
Primary Mentor, Annjeanette Belcourt, Professor, Native American Studies Chair, University of Montana
Matthew R. Frank, MPH, MSW (Navajo Nation)
PhD student, School of Social Work, University of Washington
Primary Mentor, Tommi Gaines, DrPH, Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health School of Medicine University of California San Diego
Amanda Hunter, PhD, MPH (Pascua Yaqui)
Postdoctoral Research Scholar, Center for Health Equity Research. Northern Arizona University
Primary Mentor, Professor, Medicine, Psychology, and Epidemiology, University of Illinois at Chicago
Seratha R. Largie, MSW (Navajo)
PhD Student, School of Social Work, University of Washington
Primary Mentor, Michelle Sarche, PhD, Professor, Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health, Colorado School of Public Health
Faith Price, MS, MA (Assonet Band of Wampanoag descent)
Community Prevention Coordinator, All Nations Health Center, Missoula, MT
PhD student, Prevention Science, Washington State University
Primary Mentor, John Lowe, RN, PhD, Professor, School of Nursing, The University of Texas at Austin
Lalaine (Lainey) Sevillano, PhD, MSW
Assistant Professor, Portland State University
Primary Mentor, Melissa Walls, PhD, Bloomberg Associate Professor of American Health, Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health
Rose Wimbish-Tompkins, PhD, MSN, RN (Haliwa-Saponi)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Social Work, The University of Texas at Austin
Primary Mentor, Julie Baldwin, PhD, Regents' Professor of Health Sciences, Northern Arizona University