WHO WE ARE

Staff

phone: 520. 626.0664
fax: 520.626.3664
e-mail: nni@u.arizona.edu

Miriam Jorgensen, Ph.D., M.P.P.
Research Director
Phone: 626-0664 E-mail: mjorgens@u.arizona.edu


Herminia (Minnie) Frias, M.P.H.
Partnership Manager, Bush Foundation
Phone: (520) 626-4661 E-mail: frias@u.arizona.edu

Renée Goldtooth, M.P.H. (Navajo)
Manager, Leadership and Management Programs
Phone: 626-2745 E-mail: hozho@u.arizona.edu

Jen McCormack, M.A.
Research Analyst
Phone: 626-6335 E-mail: jenmack@u.arizona.edu

Stephanie Carroll Rainie, M.P.H. (Ahtna Athabascan)
Senior Researcher
Phone: 626-4393 E-mail: scrainie@u.arizona.edu

Ian Record, Ph.D.
Manager, Educational Resources Program
Senior Lecturer of American Indian Studies
Phone: 626-9839 E-mail: recordi@u.arizona.edu

Ryan Seelau, S.J.D., J.D.
Research Analyst
Phone: 626-5487 E-mail: seelau@u.arizona.edu

Rachel Starks, M.A. (Zuni / Navajo)
Research Coordinator and Senior Researcher
Phone: 626-5756 E-mail: rstarks@u.arizona.edu

Jennifer Schultz, M.A.
Graduate Research Associate


Administrative Staff

Akenabah Begay, B.A.
Administrative Assistant
Phone: 626-4579 E-mail: begay2@email.arizona.edu

Ariel Mack, B.F.A.
Graphic Designer
Phone: 626-0693 E-mail: macka@u.arizona.edu

Charissa Delmar
Undergraduate Student Assistant

Loren Dick
Undergraduate Student Assistant

Faculty Associates

Manley A. Begay, Jr., Ed.D. (Navajo)
Associate Social Scientist
American Indian Studies Program
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

Robert Breaker, B.E.D. (Siksika)
First Nation Leadership & Management
Advisor & Consultant
Member, Board of Director, Sunrise Native Addiction Services Society
Siksika, AB

Stephen Cornell, Ph.D.
Director, Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy
Professor of Sociology and of Public Administration and Policy
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

Joseph P. Kalt, Ph.D.
Ford Foundation Professor of International Political Economy
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

Cheryl Larsen
Canadian Executive Service Organization
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

Jackie Old Coyote, Ed.M. (Crow/Ho-Chunk)
Director of Education and Outreach
Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA

Jaime A. Pinkham, B.S. (Nez Perce)
Vice President and Native Nation Team Leader
Bush Foundation
St. Paul, MN

Jerald “Jerry” D. Smith, Sr., B.S. (Laguna/Hopi)
President/CEO
Laguna Development Corporation
Laguna, NM

Joseph H. Stauss, Ph.D. (Jamestown S'Klallam)
Professor Emeritus, American Indian Studies
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

Robert A. Williams, J.D. (Lumbee)
E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law and American Indian Studies
Director, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program
James E. Rogers College of Law
The University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

Senior Policy Associates

Joseph Thomas Flies-Away, J.D., M.P.A. (Hualapai)
Wildaus Cinsulting
Palo Alto, CA

Kenneth Grant, M.P.P.
Lexecon, Inc.
Cambridge, MA

Eric Henson, M.P.P. (Chickasaw)
Lexecon, Inc.
Cambridge, MA

Lance Morgan, J.D. (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska)
President and Chief Executive Officer of Ho-Chunk, Inc.
Winnebago, NE

Jonathan Taylor, M.P.P.
Taylor Policy Group
Sarasota, FL