Speakers
LORI
ARVISO ALVORD, M.D. (NAVAJO)
Lori Arviso Alvord, M.D. is the first Navajo woman surgeon. She
entered Dartmouth College at the age of 16. After she graduated
from Dartmouth, she went on to Stanford Medical School where she
became chief surgical resident. Dr. Alvord worked as a surgeon at
the Indian Health Service hospital in Gallup, New Mexico. Dr. Alvord
returned to Dartmouth College and is now an Assistant Professor
of Surgery and Psychiatry, and Associate Dean of Students and Multicultural
Affairs at Dartmouth Medial School. She is the author of The
Scalpel and the Silver Bear: The First Navajo Woman Surgeon Combines
Western Medicine and Traditional Healing (1999).
INGRID
AQUINO
Ingrid
is a native of Seaside, California and has had successful 15 year
distance running career on the Central Coast and beyond. In 2004,
she qualified for the Boston Marathon with a 3:39 and completed
her first Boston Marathon. Her other marathons include: Big Sur
Marathon, San Diego's Rock & Roll Marathon, Sacramento International
Marathon, and the Paris International Marathon, to name a few. In
2003, she ran the inaugural Big Sur Half-Marathon in 1:42:44. Ingrid
just completed the Napa Valley Marathon held on March 6th. She is
a Certified Massage Therapist and Physical Fitness Trainer. Her
personal bests are: 22:31 5K, 42:56 10K, and a 1:37:10 half-marathon.
RYAN
ANDREWS, B.S.
Ryan Andrews has been the Director of the Wellness Center at the
University of California, Santa Cruz since it's opening in January
of 2000. Prior to this he managed the corporate wellness program
at Hewlett Packard in Cupertino, CA. He earned his Bachelor of Arts
in Human Biodynamics from the University of California, Berkeley
and is currently working on his Masters Degree at San Jose State
University. He is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach through
the National Strength and Conditioning Association and holds certifications
through the American College of Sports Medicine and the American
Council on Exercise. In his free time, Ryan enjoys surfing, skiing,
backpacking and reading.
AURORA
BEARCHILD MAMEA, (BLACKFEET)
Aurora
Bearchild Mamea, is the HIV Mental Health Outreach Worker for the
Family and Child Guidance Clinic-HIV Mental Health Services, Native
American Health Center in San Francisco. She has been employed with
the Native American Health Center since 1996 in various capacities.
During her tenure with Family and Child Guidance Clinic, Mrs. Mamea
has successfully integrated culturally-relevant and culturally-sensitive
interventions and principles in her outreach and community wellness
advocacy, often reaching and finding some of the most disadvantaged
and marginalized Native American community members hidden in single-occupancy-hotels
(SROs), hospitals, or homeless. Finally, Mrs. Mamea is an intergal
component of the cultural wellness program/services at the Family
and Child Guidance Clinic as a teacher, facilitator, advocate, mentor,
and counselor.
LESLIE
COOPER, B.S.
Leslie Cooper, Bachelor of Science, in Sports Medicine and Exercise
Physiology, ACSM. Cooper graduated from Oklahoma Baptist University
in 1993. She was a competitive gymnast for 9 years, participated
in competitive softball for 10 years, and played competitive basketball
for 12 years. Cooper is the coordinator of the FireLake Wellness
and Fitness Center in Shawnee, Oklahoma. The FireLake Wellness Center
is a Native American facility owned and operated by the Citizen
Band Potawatomi Nation. The facility teams up with a variety of
other providers such as the: Diabetic initiative team, Dieticians,
and Title VI Center to educate the Native American community about
overall health and wellness. The Center has developed wellness and
fitness programs for Native American adults and children. The main
goal of the facility is to implement and support overall wellness
in the surrounding Native American communities.
DR.
JOSEPH Ph.D. GONE (GROS VENTRE)
Dr. Joseph P. Gone is assistant professor in the Department of Psychology
(Clinical Area) and the Program in American Culture (Native American
Studies) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. An enrolled
member of the Gros Ventre tribe of Montana, Gone enlisted in the
U.S. Army for two years before obtaining his A.B. in psychology
at Harvard University in 1992. Following a year of living and working
on the Fort Belknap Indian reservation in north-central Montana,
Gone pursued his doctorate in clinical and community psychology
at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign earning his Ph.D.
in 2001. During his graduate training, he served as the Charles
A. Eastman Dissertation Fellow in Native American Studies at Dartmouth
College before accepting an Internship in Psychology at McLean Hospital/Harvard
Medical School in Belmont, MA.
Gone's
experience in Native American communities has shaped his academic
research at the interface of anthropology and psychology in the
emerging field known as cultural psychology. More specifically,
he is committed to re-envisioning mental health service delivery
for American Indian communities. The dilemma of conventional mental
health professionals serving Native American communities is how
to provide culturally appropriate helping services that avoid the
neo-colonial subversion of local cultural thought and practice.
Gone believes that a sophisticated cultural psychology as applied
to a broad range of clinical problems in the context of collaborative
community relationships holds the key to resolving this dilemma.
As a result, his research interests encompass cross-cultural psychopathology;
alternative clinical and community interventions; innovative mental
health program development; and the ethnopsychological investigation
of self, identity, personhood, and social relations in American
Indian cultural contexts. His study of these phenomena is interdisciplinary,
drawing upon formal training in psychological clinical science as
well as currents of theory and practice in psychiatry, cultural
anthropology, sociolinguistics, and community psychology.
Gone
and his partner, Dr. Tiya Miles, currently live with their twin
daughters, Nali and Noa, and their beagle in Ann Arbor.
NELSON
JIM, M.A., MFTI (DINEH)
Nelson Jim, M.A., MFTI (Dineh), is the clinical director for the
Family and Child Guidance Clinic of the Native American Health Center
in San Francisco. He has worked in areas of HIV/AIDS, mental health,
and substance abuse for twelve year. He oversees the Native Circle,
a program funded through the Mental Health HIV/AIDS services Collaborative
Program of the federal Center for Mental Health Services. He has
developed an innovative program that incorporates traditional Native
American culture in a integrated approach to well-being and mental
health. He is a contributing author to Healing and Mental Health
for Native Americans: Speaking in Red (2004).
LARRY
MURILLO, M.P.H., DR.P.H., (SHOSHONE)
Larry Murillo, M.P.H., Dr.P.H., is Shoshone from Fort Hall, Idaho,
and graduated from the doctoral program at the University of California,
Berkeley, School of Public Health. His research interest is cultural
health practices and how they contribute public health. He has written
a position paper on Native American Cultural Health Care for the
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine. "Native
American Public Health Issues" is a course he currently teaches
in the school of public health at Berkeley. He ahs worked for more
than twenty years with various Native American communities, mostly
as a public health educator and community organizer. He organized
regional traditional gatherings with the assistance of spiritual
leaders in California to educated Native American people about public
health issues. He is a contributing author to Healing and Mental
Health for Native Americans: Speaking in Red (2004).
RAMIREZ
FAMILY (HO CHUNK, OJIBWE, AND CHICANO)
*
Renya Ramirez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department
of American Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz;
* Gilbert Ramirez, Administrator with Veterans Administration
Palo Alto;
* Mirasol Ramirez, (UCSC '03), Intern at Public Allies Silcon
Valley, a non-profit community support program;
* Lucio Ramirez, Senior in Community Studies at the University
of California at Santa Cruz;
* Gilbert Ramirez, Jr., First year student at Stanford University.
GLORYANNA
VALERIO-LEONCE (APACHE/DINEH/ AZTECA/CHEROKEE)
Gloryanna
Valerio-Leonce is a Community Health Outreach Worker with five years
experience providing HIV prevention in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Ms. Valerio-Leonce is currently the youth services case manager
and outreach worker for the Family and Child Guidance Clinic at
Native American Health Center in San Francisco. Additionally, she
has previous experience in HIV prevention and outreach work with
the Needle Exchange Program in Oakland, California. Ms. Valerio-Leonce's
commitment to community health services (HIV/AIDS, substance abuse
recovery, mental health, and cultural health), especially those
most at-risk, has led her to work with various communities and populations.
She integrates cultural sensitivity and cultural principles in her
work, and truly enjoys providing health and wellness education to
all individuals.
