Our Team

Administration

Laura Platero (Navajo Nation)

Executive Director

Policy & Government Affairs

Hilary Edwards (Swinomish Tribal Indian Community)

Director of Legal and Governmental Affairs

Pakak Sophie Boerner (Iñupiaq, Native Village of Kiana)

Health Policy Specialist

Veronica Smith

Federal Relations Analyst

Communications

Amory Zschach (Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes)

Director of Strategic Communications

Tommy Ghost Dog, Jr. (Burns Paiute Tribe)

Senior Communications Manager

Kira Rea (Cherokee Nation)

Communications Manager

Roger Peterson (Siletz)

ETHIC Web Manager

Shae Williams

Web and Graphic Designer

Human Resources

Karin Dean (Puyallup Tribes)

Human Resources Director

Brook Donovan (Ponca Tribes of Nebraska)

Human Resources Manager

Reshell Livingston (Chickasaw)

Benefits and Payroll Manager

Finance

Melissa Thomas

Director of Finance

Luwanna Comstock

Senior Accountant

Taitum DeGarmo (Shoshone-Bannock Tribes)

Accounting Manager

Bodie Broncho (Shoshone-Bannock Tribes)

Staff Accountant

Michele Evans

Purchasing Agent Coordinator

Victoria Lewis

Accounting Clerk

Operations & Information Technology

Marches Armstrong

Operations & Information Technology Director

Chelsea Jensen (Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Indians)

Office Manager

Ranya Salvant

Procurement and Contracts Manager

Paco Sanchez

Facilities Manager

Jamie Alongi

Network Administrator

Jason Arnold

IT Analyst

Thomas Farrar

IT Support Technician

Programs

Candice Jimenez (Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs Indians)

Director of Programs and Development

Katherine Gorell

Senior Grants Manager

Jovana Garcia

Grants Manager

Clinical Support Services

Tillie Henry (Tulalip Tribes)

Tribal Healthcare Systems and Education Director

Jerico Cummings (Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe)

Syndemic Support Project Director

Ashley Jean Day

ECHO Project Coordinator

Kate Denny

TCHPP Manager

Michael Feroglia

Funding and Contracts Manager

Krystie Holder (Cree, Chinook, Grand Ronde)

Tribal Health: Reaching Out Involves Everyone (THRIVE) 988 Project Coordinator

Naomi Jacobson (Quileute)

Youth Prevention Director

Dolores Jimerson (Northern Seneca)

Behavioral Health Education Director

Jane Manthei

SMS Communications Specialist

Ticey Mason (Siletz)

Northwest Tribal Dental Support Center Senior Project Director

Larissa Molina

Project Manager

Helen Urbano Neilson (Tlingit and Latiné)

Behavioral Health ECHO Program Specialist

Vivi Nguyen

Cancer Project Coordinator

Danner Peter (Diné)

Tribal Epidemiology Center Vaccine Assessment and Information Project Specialist

Pam Ready (Puyallup Tribe)

Dental Health Aide Director

Angey Rideout (Grand Ronde)

Tobacco Project Coordinator

Jessica Rienstra

ECHO RN Case Manager

Olivia Rovang

Food Sovereignty Initiatives Project Specialist

LaKota Scott (Diné)

Vaccine Programs Director

Tammie Scott

Wellness for Every American Indian to Achieve and View Health Equity in the Northwest (WEAVE-NW) Project Director

David Stephens (Haida)

ECHO Clinic Director

Eric Vinson (Cherokee Nation)

Cancer and Tobacco Project Director

Megan Woodbury

ECHO Project Manager

Environmental Public Health

Ryan Sealy (Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma)

Environmental Public Health Director

Melino Gianotti (Tongan)

Emergency Manager & Environmental Health Specialist

Nicole Holdaway Smith

Senior Biostatistician, Environmental Health Data Informatics Lead

Antoinette Ruiz (Navajo Nation)

Senior Environmental Health Specialist / Special Programs Manager

Holly Thompson Duffy

Environmental Health Science Manager

Rebecca Washakie (Shoshone-Bannock Tribes)

Environmental Public Health Project Coordinator

Olivia Whiting-Tovar (Oglala Sioux Tribe)

Highway Safety & Tribal Injury Prevention Specialist

Ethan White Temple (Hunkpapa, Standing Rock Sioux Tribe)

Environmental Health Specialist

Northwest Tribal Epicenter

Victoria Warren-Mears

Northwest Tribal Epicenter Director

Thomas Becker

Northwest Native American Research Center for Health Senior Project Director & Medical Epidemiologist

Nancy Bennett

Washington Public Health Improvement Manager

M’Kya Bettega (Round Valley Indian Tribes)

Northwest Native American Research Center for Health Project Coordinator

Bridget Canniff

Public Health Improvement & Training Project Director

Colbie Caughlan

Tribal Health: Reaching Out Involves Everyone (THRIVE) & Tribal Opioid Response Project Director

Clarice Charging (Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation)

Northwest Tribal Epicenter Coordinator

Klamath Cohn (Shasta Tribe, Tuscarora Nation of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy)

Training and Outreach Manager

Missy Cooper (Coquille Tribe)

Cancer Project Manager

Stephanie Craig-Rushing

Adolescent Health Senior Project Director

Grazia Cunningham

ECHO Project Manager

Helena Darrow

Zero Suicide Initiative Coordinating Center (ZSICC) Manager

Jeanne Davidson (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma)

OTPHM Coordinator

Taylor Dean (Puyallup Tribes)

Adolescent Health Outreach Coordinator

Alyssa Farrow (Confederated Tribes of the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla)

WTDP Specialist

Rochelle Fassler (Inupiaq and Athabaskan)

Summer Institute Project Coordinator

Valorie Gaede (Shoshone-Bannock Tribes)

PHIT Project Assistant

Celena Ghost Dog (Navajo Nation)

Adolescent Health Co-Director

Barbara Gladue (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians)

OTPHM Manager

Alexis Harris

Biostatistician II

Don Head (Gwich’in)

WTDP Project Manager

Emily Hops

Epidemiology Center Senior Evaluator

Rosalina James

Senior Project Director, Evaluator and PI

Sujata Joshi

Data Hub Project Director

Kacey Little

Biostatistician

Shane Lopez-Johnston (Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation)

THRIVE 988 Project Director

Heidi Lovejoy

NWTEC DATA HUB Epidemiologist

Genevieve McGeshick (Sokaogon Chippewa)

NARCH Program Coordinator

Daye Montoya

Communicable Disease Epidemiologist

Lexy Packer (Chiricahua Apache)

TOR Project Coordinator

Meena Patil

Data Hub Epidemiologist

Michelle Singer (Navajo Nation)

Healthy Native Youth Project Director

Indi Skuzinski

Data Engineer

Ashley Thomas (Native Hawaiian)

ECHO Senior Program Manager

Karuna Tirumala

Chronic Disease and Cancer Epidemiologist

Shannon Ureel

WEAVE-NW Health Educator

Birdie Wermy (Cheyenne & Arapaho Tribes of Oklahoma)

Chronic Disease Prevention Project Director

Crisandra Wilkie (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and Klamath Tribes)

Substance Use Epidemiologist

Alyssa Yang

Senior Project Director, Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit

Special Projects

Jason Lovett

Special Projects Manager