Trainees

August 3, 2017

Melissa L. Walls PhD (Bois Forte and Couchiching First Nations Anishinabe)

Melissa L. Walls Ph.D. (Bois Forte and Couchiching First Nations Anishinabe) is a social scientist committed to collaborative research and has over a decade of experience working with tribal communities in the United States and Canada. Her involvement in community-based participatory research (CBPR) projects to date includes mental health epidemiology; culturally-relevant, family-based substance use prevention…

July 26, 2017

Myra Parker, JD, PhD (Mandan & Hidatsa)

July 10, 2017

Jessica Hope Elm, PhD MSW (Oneida)

As a citizen of the Oneida Nation and a descendant of the Stockbridge-Munsee Band of the Mohicans, Jessica’s research agenda is driven by the health and policy needs of tribal communities. Toward this end, her manuscripts thus far have centered on substance abuse policy and programming, resilience, child maltreatment, suicidality, and American Indian-specific social stressors….

April 6, 2017

Angela Fernandez, PhD, MPH, LCSW (Menominee)

Angela Fernandez, PhD, MSW, LICSW, is originally from the Menominee Indian Reservation in northeastern Wisconsin. She completed her BSW at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and her MSW and PhD at the University of Washington. She served as a Youth Development Worker in the Children, Youth and Families Program during her two years of service in…