Trainees

August 15, 2017

Emma Elliott-Groves, PhD, MSW (Cowichan)

Emma Elliott received a PhD in the College of Education, Learning Sciences and Human Development program. Committed to practice, she is also pursuing a Master of Social Work. Her dissertation, “Embracing the Sacredness of Life: Understanding Suicide in a First Nations Community,” coordinates future selves literature with settler colonial theory in a study aimed at…

Jessica Black was raised in a traditional hunting and fishing family in Fort Yukon. Her maternal shitsii (grandpa) raised his large family in fish camp on the banks of the Yukon River. “It is there that we each learned our culture, our stories, our traditional values, our language; how to become Gwich’in people,” Black recalls….

Ramona Beltrán’s Ramona Beltran, (Chicana, Indigenous Mexican descent) scholarship focuses on the intersections of historical trauma, embodiment, and environmental/social determinants of health as they affect health and risk behaviors in indigenous communities. She is particularly interested in centering cultural protective factors, strengths and resiliencies in indigenous populations as they work to interrupt the intergenerational transmission…

Raven Ross is a doctoral student at Washington University in St. Louis Brown School of Social Work. Born in Flagstaff, Arizona, Raven holds a B.S. in Sociology from Northern Arizona University and an MSW from the Brown School. She is interested in building management capacity within American Indian tribes, increasing health care access for youth…

Katie Schultz completed her MSW from the University of Washington in 2002. Prior to starting the PhD program, she served as the Administrative Director at the University’s Indigenous Wellness Research Institute. An enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Katie’s research interests focus on American Indian/Alaska Native health disparities. More specifically, she is interested…

Matthew Town, PhD, MPH, is a behavioral health scientist whose research focuses on the HIV and substance use prevention and treatment needs of American Indian and Alaska Natives (AIAN), sexual minorities, and AIAN sexual minorities. Dr. Town received his MPH in Global Health from Oregon State University, and his PhD in Sociology from the Portland…

August 10, 2017

Melissa Lewis, PhD (Cherokee Nation)

Dr. Melissa Lewis is an assistant professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School, Duluth in the Department of Biobehavioral Health & Population Sciences. She is also a research fellow at the Research for Indigenous Community Health (RICH) Center in Duluth, MN. Dr. Lewis received her PhD in Medical Family Therapy and is a licensed…

She has worked in Washington, D.C., as an international public health analyst for the Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Global Health Affairs. Dr. Billiot holds an MSW from the University of Michigan (2007) and undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Sociology (2005) from Louisiana State University. She is a veteran of the U.S….

Danica Love Brown, MSW, CACIII, PhD, is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. Dr. Brown is the Behavioral Health Director at the Northwest Portland Area Indian Health Board and has worked as a mental health and substance use counselor, social worker, and youth advocate for over 20 years. Danica Brown earned a PhD…

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