Indigenous Research Trainees // INSPIRE

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

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

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