Faculty
October 18, 2021
Angelique Day, PhD (Hochunk)
Angelique Day, PhD, MSW, (Ho Chunk Descendent) has been a faculty affiliate of IWRI since September 2017. Her indigenous focused research projects to date since joining IWRI include: Lead evaluator of CORE Teen, an in-service foster/adoptive parent training curriculum in partnership with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians; curriculum designer, Healthy Transitions, an independent living…
August 16, 2018
Mike Spencer, PhD, MSW (Native Hawaiian)
August 15, 2017
E. Roberto Orellana, PhD
E. Roberto Orellana joined the University of Washington School of Social Work as a professor in 2021. Before joining the School faculty, he was professor and associate dean for research and sponsored projects in the School of Social Work at Portland State University (PSU) where he also served as an affiliate faculty in Public Health…
July 28, 2017
Michelle Johnson-Jennings, PhD (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)
July 10, 2017
David Huh, PhD
David is a clinical and quantitative psychologist. His research focuses on the evaluation of evidence-based interventions for AIAN and other underrepresented populations and the development of longitudinal statistical methodology for evaluating health and health-related outcomes.
Cynthia R. Pearson, PhD
Research Associate Professor Cynthia R. Pearson is the Associate Director of the Research Core and Director of the Methods Core at the Interdisciplinary Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (IWRI, P60MD006909), where she collaborates with Indigenous scholars in the development of research policies and directs iterative data analysis on historical and cultural determinants of physical and mental health among…
July 7, 2017
Tessa Evans-Campbell, PhD (Snohomish)
Associate Professor Tessa Evans-Campbell is the director of the School’s MSW program. She completed her BA in art history at the University of Washington and her MSW at the University of California Los Angeles. Her research interests focus on historical trauma, resistance and healing; cultural buffers of trauma; substance use and mental health; and indigenous…
April 5, 2017
Bonnie Duran, DrPH (Opelousas/Coushatta)
Bonnie Duran has worked in public health education, evaluation, program planning and research with Native Americans and other communities of color for 35 years. For the past 10 years, she has been studying the prevalence of mental disorders, victimization risk factors and treatment of Native American women who use Indian Health Service primary care facilities…
