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)

Assistant Professor, Indigenous Health Law and Policy, Lehigh 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 , 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

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)

Assistant Professor, College of Health Solutions, Arizona State 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

Damian Chase-Begay, PhD (Mandan, Hidatsa, Arikara Nation)

Associate Research Professor, University of Montana

Kilohana Haitsuka, MSW (Native Hawaiian)

PhD Student, School of Social Work, University of Washington

Nidia Hernandez, MSW (Chicana, of indigenous Mexican P’urhépecha and Mexica descent)

PhD Student, Adjunct Instructor, Arizona State University

Kristina (Tina) Hulama, MSW (Native Hawaiian, Samoan, and other Pacific Islander)

PhD Student, University of Denver

Felix Muniz, BS, MA (Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community)

PhD Student, Quantitative Research Methods, Department of Psychology, Arizona State University

Blanca-Azucena Pacheco, PhD (Xinka Pueblo)

Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Denver School of Social Work

Lona Running Wolf, MEd (Blackfeet)

Doctoral Student, University of Montana

Cary Waubanascum, PhD (Citizen of Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and descendant of Menominee, Potawatomi, & Stockbridge Nations)

Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay