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| WILLIAM CARSON (Ohkay Owingeh), Doctoral Student and Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health
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| MARISELLA MOLINA (Pascua Yaqui Tribal Citizen), Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Arizona | LILITH SHEA CLARK, Undergraduate Research Assistant, University of Arizona
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| GRACE BULLTAIL (Crow Tribe), Assistant Professor, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison | PARISA SARZAEIM, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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| ANDREW MARTINEZ (Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community), Research Coordinator, Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance, University of Arizona & | RILEY TAITINGFONG (CHamoru), Postdoctoral Researcher, Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona & | BECKETT STERNER, Associate Professor, Arizona State University School of Life Sciences Human Dimensions
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ROUND TABLE 15 | DAY 2 | 9:30am-10:30am | BALLROOM J | JOSEPH YRCHETA (Pūrepecha – Mexican Indigenous), Native BioData Consortium
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ROUND TABLE 1 | DAY 1 | 9:30am-10:30am | BALLROOM H | MAYA MAGARATI, PhD (Indigenous Magar, Nepal), Associate Director, Seven Directions, University of Washington | JESSICA KIPP (Blackfeet), Research Coordinator, Seven Directions, University of Washington | KASE CRAGG, Research Coordinator, Seven Directions, University of Washington | CHRISTINA E. ORÉ, MPH, DrPH (Andean, Peru), Associate
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| ALEXIS ELLSWORTH-KOPKOWSKI, Assistant Professor, Indigenous Liberal Studies, Institute of American Indian Art
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ROUND TABLE 12 | DAY 1 | 2:45pm-3:45pm | BALLROOM J | REBECCA RAE (Jicarilla Apache), Research Lecturer III, University of New Mexico-Center for Participatory Research and Santo Domingo Pueblo | OLIVIA ROANHORSE (Navajo/Diné), Chief Operating Office and Portfolio Lead, Roanhouse Consulting, LLC. | BEVERLY GORMAN (Navajo/Diné), Program Specialist/Social Worker, University of New Mexico-Center for
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ROUND TABLE 2 | DAY 1 | 9:30am-10:30am | BALLROOM I | ALEC CALAC (Pauma Band of Luiseño Indians), UC San Diego School of Medicine, UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science | JOSEPH YRACHETA (Pūrepecha – Mexican Indigenous), Native BioData Consortium | TIM K. MACKEY, Professor, UC San
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| RALPH CAMMACK (Wolastoqiyik), Director of Research, Wabanaki Public Health and Wellness
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| LEECE OLIVER LARUE (Karuk Tribe), Fire Grant Program Manager, Karuk Tribe Department of Natural Resources
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ROUND TABLE 3 | DAY 1 | 9:30am-10:30am | BALLROOM J | REGINA SIEVERT, Program Director, National Science Foundation | JEAN FELDMAN, Head, Policy Office, Division of Institution and Award Support, National Science Foundation | LIAM FRINK, Program Director, Arctic Social Sciences, National Science Foundation
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| TRACI MORRIS, PhD (Chickasaw), Executive Director of Arizona State University’s American Indian Policy Institute | GEOFFREY BLACKWELL, JD (Chickasaw, Choctaw, Omaha, and Muscogee Creek), General Counsel and Chief Operating Officer of the National Congress of American Indian
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| STEPHEN R. CURLEY (Navajo/Diné), Director of Digital Archives, National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition
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| KELLE DHEIN (Diné, Enrolled Tribal Member), Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute Consulting Bioethicist at the Native Biodata Consortium
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ROUND TABLE 9 | DAY 1 | 1:30pm-2:30pm | BALLROOM J | PHILIP GOVER (Northern and Southern Paiute, Pawnee, and Comanche), Policy Fellow at the Center for Indian Country Development, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | VANESSA PALMER, Data Director at the Center for Indian Country Development, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | LAUREL WHEELER,
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ROUND TABLE 17 | DAY 2 | 10:45am-11:45am | BALLROOM I | DR. RANDALL AKEE (Native Hawaiian, Taino), Chair, American Indian Studies, UCLA; Assistant Professor, Department of Public Policy, UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs & | DR. PĀLAMA LEE, Director, Research and Evaluation, Lili’uokalani Trust & | DR. BRANDON LEDWARD, Principal Strategist, Kamehameha Schools
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| TESHIA G. ARAMBULA SOLOMON, PhD, Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health, University of Arizona | CELINA VALENCIA, PhD, Co-Principal Investigator, National Institutes of Health, University of Arizona | FATIMA MOLINA-VERRIJT, MA, Program Director, National Institutes of Health, University of Arizona
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| ASHLEY THACKER, BA (Navajo/Diné), Community Principal Investigator & Senior Research Program Supervisor, Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health & | TAISHIANA TSOSIE, BA (Navajo/Diné), Data Collector & Research Assistant, Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health
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| BRYAN MCCOY (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe), Tribal Planner
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| SHELBY KINLICHEE (Navajo/Diné), Data Coordinator for DigDeep Labs & | LETICIA MARQUES, Data Coordinator for DigDeep Labs & | SUSAN LAMB, Data and Strategy Manager, DigDeep Labs & | ANNIE FEIGHERY, Cofounder and CEO of mWater & | JOHN FEIGHERY, Cofounder and CEO of mWater
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| JIM SILL, MS (Cherokee), CISSP CompTIA Sec+ Cyber Fellow, PhD Candidate and Data Privacy Researcher, University of Tulsa
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| KENDALL EDMO (Blackfeet), Master’s Student, Interdisciplinary GIS Analyst, Earth Sciences – Montana State University, Blackfeet Tribal Historic Preservation Office
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| ASHLYNN GERTH, PhD (Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe), Grants and Policy Manager, Native BioData Consortium
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| SERENA NATONABAH (Navajo/Diné), Graduate Researcher and Project Lead, Colorado State University & | AIDA WATES, Undergraduate Research Assistant, Colorado State University
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DAY 2 | 10:45am-11:45am | BALLROOM J | DR. DOMINIQUE DAVID-CHAVEZ & RILEY TAITINGFONG As Indigenous data sovereignty (IDSov) and Indigenous data governance (IDGov) gain momentum across the United States, numerous Indigenous Peoples, communities, and nations within US territories, and tribes without federal or state recognition face unique challenges. Despite the myriad ways the US
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| MATTHEW TAFOYA (Navajo/Diné, Tewa), Director, Research Coordinator, Navajo Technical University Innovation Center, University of Arizona and Navajo Technical University
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| LAUREN W. YOWELUNH MCLESTER-DAVIS (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin), Scientist and Director of Indigenous Science Advocacy in the Native American Center for Health Professions at the University of Wisconsin – Madison | JORDAN P. LEWIS (Aleut, Native Village of Naknek), Associate Director of Memory Keepers Medical Discovery Team; Department of Family Medicine and BioBehavioral Health
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| TROY WIIPONGWII (Chickahominy), PhD, MPP. Director of Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Conservation, Institute for Integrative Conservation at William & Mary
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| SOFIA LOCKLEAR (Lumbee), Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto Mississauga | ABBY FEATHER (Aamjiwnaang First Nation), Undergraduate Research Assistant, Western University
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| CHRISTOPHER B. CHANEY (Seneca-Cayuga Nation), Principal Deputy Director (Virtual Presentation)
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| ALISHA L. MURPHY (Navajo/Diné), PhD Candidate, Economist at the Navajo Nation Division of Economic Development & | CAROL ANNE HILTON (Hesquiaht First Nation), MA, Founder and CEO of the Indigenomics Institute & the Global Centre of Indigenomics & | JESSICA ERICKSON (Binche Whut’en First Nation and Indian Ethnicity), BA , Founder and Owner of
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| DR. M. MURPHY (Red River Métis), Professor, University of Toronto & | DR. KISTEN BOS (Métis), Assistant Professor, University of Toronto & | M. FERNANDA YANCHAPAXI (Kichwa-Panzaleo/Mestiza), PhD Candidate, University of Toronto
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| FRANK K. LAKE (Karuk/Yurok), Research Ecologist/Tribal Liaison
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| VERONICA LANE, PhD (Diné – Navajo Nation), Chief Data Officer, Office of Budget and Performance Management, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, U.S. Department of the Interior & | MAGGIE HARDY, PhD, Senior Advisor for Statistics and Evidence – Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), Office of the Policy Analysis, Office of the Secretary,
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| SHARON ATTIPOE-DORCOO (Indigenous Ewe native from Ghana), Principal, TERSHA LLC; Evaluation Focused Consulting | NORMA MARTINEZ-RUBIN, Principal, TERSHA LLC; Evaluation Focused Consulting
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| KYLE X. HILL, PhD, MPH (Anishinaabe, Dakota Lakota), Assistant Professor, Division of Environment Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota| JAMESON D. LOPEZ, PhD (Enrolled member of Quechan Tribe), Assistant Professor, Educational Policy Studies and Practice, University of Arizona
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| STEPHANY RUNNINGHAWK JOHNSON (member of the Oglala Lakota Nation), Founding Executive Director, Local Contexts | CORRIE ROE, Director of Outreach & Strategy, Local Contexts
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| DONALD WARNE, MD, MPH (Oglala Lakota), Professor and Co-Director, Center for Indigenous Health; Provost Fellow, Indigenous Health Policy, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
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| JASHA LYONS ECHO-HAWK (Seminole, Pawnee, Mvskoke Creek, Omaha, Ioway), Intertribal Birthworker, Indigenous Lactation Counselor, Co-founder of Indigenous Milk Medicine Collective | KIMBERLY MOORE-SALAS (Navajo/Diné), International Board-Certified Lactation Consultant (IBCLC), Indigenous Milk Medicine Collective
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| KALI DALE (White Earth Ojibwe), Director of Research, Native BioData Consortium
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ROUND TABLE 13 | DAY 2 | 9:30am-10:30am | BALLROOM H | BETH Y. DAVIS, Graduate Research Assistant and MS Student at the University of Maine & | JENNIFER SMITH-MAYO, Graduate Research Assistant and PhD Candidate at the University of Maine
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| CLAUDIA R. DURAN, MLS (Apache Mescalero), Indigenous Affairs Coordinator, University of Arizona & | CARLOS GONZALES (Yaqui), MD, Assistant Vice President Indigenous Affairs, University of Arizona
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ROUNDTABLE 16 | DAY 2 | 10:45am-11:45am | BALLROOM H
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| EVAN MIYAKI, Ulana ‘Ike Center of Excellence, Hawai’i Sea Grant College Program, University of Hawai’i Mānoa | KATY DELAFORGE HINTZEN, Ulana ‘Ike Center of Excellence, Hawai’i Sea Grant College Program, University of Hawai’i Mānoa | AARIN GROSS, Conservation International Hawai’i | ULU CHING, Conservation International Hawai’i | ROSANNA ‘ANOLANI ALEGADO, Ulana ‘Ike Center of
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ROUND TABLE 14 | DAY 2 | 9:30am-10:30am | BALLROOM I | ALYSHIA ALOHALANI MACAYSA-FERACOTA (Kanaka Maoli), Executive Director, Oregon Pacific Islander Coalition & | KEVIN LUJAN LEE (Chamoru), Killam Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia
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ROUND TABLE 7 | DAY 1 | 1:30pm-2:30pm | BALLROOM H | SINTON SOALABLAI (Ngesiliong, Ngerdelolk, Peleliu, Palau), Regional Advisor, McREL International | CHRISTINA TYDEMAN, Executive/Program Director, McREL International
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| PHILIP GOVER (Northern and Southern Paiute, Pawnee, and Comanche), Policy Fellow at the Center for Indian Country Development, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis | VANESSA PALMER, Data Director at the Center for Indian Country Development, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
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| MARINA JOHNSON-ZAFIRIS (Mohawk of Akwesasne), PhD Student, Cornell University
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| BENJAMIN BROOKWELL, Associate, OKT (Olthuis Kleer Townshend LLP)
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ROUND TABLE 10 | DAY 1 | 2:45pm-3:45pm | BALLROOM H | SIOMARA VALLADARES (Chapina/Mestiza), Associate Director, McREL International | CHRISTINA TYDEMAN, Executive/Program Director, McREL International | SINTON SOALABLAI (Ngesiliong, Ngerdelolk, Peleliu, Palau), Regional Advisor, McREL International | BRADLEY RENTZ, Senior Researcher, McREL International
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| ALEXANDER SOTO (Tohono O’odham), Director of Labriola National American Indian Data Center, Arizona State University Library & | VINA BEGAY (Navajo/Diné), Assistant Librarian of Labriola National American Indian Data Center, Arizona State University Library
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| JENNIFER R. O’NEAL (The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde), Assistant Professor, Native American and Indigenous Studies, University of Oregon
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ROUND TABLE 5 | DAY 1 | 10:45am-11:45am | BALLROOM I | IBRAHIM GARBA (Karai-Karai), Assistant Research Professor, College of Public Health; Senior Researcher, Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona
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| WAI ALLEN (Navajo/Diné), Indigenous Geography Postdoctoral Researcher at Haskell Foundation/Haskell Indian Nations University
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| SHANIA KEE (Navajo/Diné), J.D. Candidate 2024, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, University of Arizona School of Information
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| TAMARA LAYDEN, Graduate Fellow at Colorado State University
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ROUNDTABLE 4 | DAY 1 | 10:45am-11:45am | BALLROOM H | ELVA “COOKIE” ALLAN (Meztizo-Mexico, Coeur d’Alene Tribe), Director, Strategic Initiatives & Development, Coeur d’Alene Tribe & | MARQUETTE HENDRICKX (Coeur d’Alene Tribe), Senior Data Analyst, Strategic Initiatives & Development, Coeur d’Alene Tribe & | CHRISTINA E. ORÉ (Andean, Peru), Associate Director, Seven Directions, University
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ROUND TABLE 6 | DAY 1 | 10:45am-11:45am | BALLROOM J | KIM R. MARION SUISEEYA, Associate Professor, Northwestern University | JOSIAH HESTER (Kānaka Maoli), Associate Professor, Northwestern University | JEFF FENG, Postdoctoral Scholar, Georgia Tech
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| CORINA QAAĠRAQ KRAMER (enrolled in the Native Village of Kotzebue), Rematriation Project Partner, Director of Operations at Aqqaluk Trust & | CANA ULUAK ITCHUAQIYAQ (enrolled in the Noorvik Native Community), Rematriation Project Partner, Assistant Professor of Professional and Technical Writing at Virginia Tech & | CHRIS LINDGREN, Rematriation Project Partner, Assistant Professor of Technical
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| ELDER LARRY BREMNER (Metis), Co-Founder, Global EvalIndigenous Group; Past President, Canadian Evaluation Society; Editor, Roots & Relations, Canadian Journal of Program Evaluation | DR. NICOLE BOWMAN (Lunaape/Mohican, Stockbridge Munsee Tribe in WI), Global Member, EvalIndigenous; Board Member, International evaluation Academy; Section Editor, Culture and Ethics, American Journal of Evaluation; Co-Editor, Roots & Relations, Canadian
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ROUND TABLE 8 | DAY 1 | 1:30pm-2:30pm | BALLROOM I | RILEY TAITINGFONG (Chamoru), Postdoctoral Researcher, Native Nations Institute, University of Arizona & | ANDREW MARTINEZ (Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community), Research Coordinator, Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance, University of Arizona & | STEPHANIE RUSSO CARROLL (Ahtna-Native Village of Kluti-Kaah), Associate Professor, University of
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| ALESIA NEZ (Navajo/Diné), 4th Year Undergraduate Student at Washington State University
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| CHEYANNE WEIKLE (Descendent of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes), Student, Washington State University
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ROUND TABLE 11 | DAY 1 | 2:45pm-3:45pm | BALLROOM I | KARINA WALTERS (citizen of Choctaw Nation), Director of the Tribal Health Research Office (THRO) & | KATHY ETZ, Director of Native Collective Effort to Enhance Wellness (N CREW) Program & | ANGELA WALDEN (citizen of Cherokee Nation), Scientific Program Director, N CREW Program
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| DR. JOHN GARLAND (Choctaw), Director of Research and Student Success, Cobell Scholarship) & | DR. DAVID SANDERS (Oglala Lakota), Vice President for Research, Evaluation, and Faculty Development, American Indian College Fund & | DR. JOHNNY POOLAW (Delaware, Chiricahua Apache, Kiowa, Commanche), Director of Student Success, American Indian Science and Engineering Society
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| NATASHA MYHAL (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians), Provost’s Fellow Indigenous Environmental Studies at Ohio State
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| JOE ENLET (Chon Chuuk, Chukese/Micronesian), PhD Student and Graduate Research Assistant at the University of Rhode Island
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| REBECCA RAE (Jicarilla Apache), Research Lecturer III, University of New Mexico-Center for Participatory Research and Santo Domingo Pueblo | BEVERLY GORMAN (Navajo/Diné), Program Specialist/Social Worker, University of New Mexico-Center for Participatory Research and Santo Domingo Pueblo | EUGENE TSINAJINNIE (Santo Domingo Pueblo), Epidemiologist, University of New Mexico-Center for Participatory Research and Santo Domingo Pueblo