**Native Community Health Leaders Chosen for**

**For Year-Long Fellowship Program**

#### **Healthy Native Communities Fellowship** 

Fifteen community teams, representing forty-three individuals, have been
chosen to participate in the Healthy Native Communities Fellowship. The
Fellowship is a cornerstone of the Indian Health Service National Health
Promotion Initiative. Selected through a competitive application
process, the new group of Fellows represents a cross-section of
community life including health care and wellness specialists, substance
abuse and social service professionals, Tribal and local government
leaders, and community volunteers. The Fellows, represent unique
partnerships between health systems, local organizations and community
members committed to improving the health and well-being of their Native
communities.

**2008 Healthy Native Communities Fellowship**

**Celebrate Families Coalition (Dulce, NM)**

David Boyle, Prevention Specialist, Jicarilla Behavioral Health

Janet K. Castillo, Probation Officer/Supervisor, Jicarilla Nation
Courts,

Taos/Jicarilla/Cheyenne

Ina Montoya, Youth Pastor, Jicarilla Apache Reformed Church, Navajo &
Jicarilla Apache

**Eastern Agency Community Health Taskforce (Crownpoint, NM)**

Beverly Bowman-Yazzie, Health Technician, Community & Preventive Health-

IHS, Navajo

Jimmie Toledo, Jr., Recreation Specialist, Office of Youth Development-

Navajo Nation, Navajo

Rethania S. Yazzie, School Health Coordinator, Community & Preventive

Health-IHS, Navajo

**Healthy Snowbird Community (Robbinsville, NC)**

Suzanne Agnes Adams, Community Secretary, Volunteer, Eastern Band of

Cherokee Nation

Onita Wachacha Bush, Certified Nursing Assistant, Community Health-
Health

& Medical Division, Eastern Band of Cherokee Nation

Margaret R. Wachacha, Community Health Representative, Community

Health- Health & Medical Division, Eastern Band of Cherokee Nation

**Hualapai Health Board (Peach Springs, AZ)**

Louise Benson, Council Member, Hualapai Tribe

Monica Q. Romo, Clerk, Finance, Hualapai Tribe

Sandra Lucille Yellowhawk-Irwin, Hualapai Health Director, Hualapai
Tribe

**Lac Du Flambeau Center for Fitness (Lac Du Flambeau, WI)**

Eva M. Flying, Fitness Manager/Director, Lac Du Flambeau Band of Lake

Superior Indian Tribe, Northern Cheyenne/Oneida

Hope L. Williams, Community Dietitian, Peter Christiansen Health Center

**Laguna Colony Health Action Team (Albuquerque, NM)**

Grace Paisano Andrews, Retired Occupational Health Nurse, Pueblo of

Laguna

Clara Green, Cultural Leader, Pueblo of Laguna

Roxane Spruce Bly, Facilitator/Trainer, Pueblo of Laguna

**Ogitchidaa Equay -- Warrior Women (Cass Lake, MN)**

Charlene Dahl, Elder of Community, Leech Lake Ojibwe

Jody C. DeVault, Health Educator, Leech Lake Special Diabetes Program,

Leech Lake Ojibwe

Cynthia Doke, Diabetes Program Director, Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe

**Peace of Kake (Kake, AK)**

Anthony Gastelum, Prevention Specialist, Southeast Alaska Regional
Health

Consortium, Organized Village of Kake/Pasqui Yaqui

Lori M. Moore, EMT 1, Cherokee/Caucasian

Georgina Reese, Community Wellness Advocate III, Southeast Alaska

Regional Health Consortium, Tlingit

**Restoring the Sacred (Indian Island, ME)**

Marie Mitchell, Counselor II, Penobscot Nation Counseling Dept.,
Penobscot/

Passamaquoddy

Natalie Michelle, Volunteer, Penobscot/Passamaquoddy

Neana M. Neptune, Sales Representative, Maine Indian Basketmakers

Alliance, Penobscot Nation

**San Carlos STEPP (San Carlos, AZ)**

George Manynard, Pastor, Apache Assembly of God Church

Nina Saborie-Bendi, Prevention Specialist, San Carlos Tribe, San Carlos

Mountain Apache

LaToya Tewawina, Health Educator, San Carlos Tribe, White Mountain

Apache

**The HOPE (Emmonak, AK)**

Roberta Grace Charles, Registration Technician, Yukon Kuskokwim Health

Corporation, Emmonak Tribal Council

Thomas Billy Kameroff, Shipping & Receiving, Kwikpak Fisheries LLC,
Yupik

Eskimo

Marcia A. Leopold, City Clerk, City of Emmonak, Emmonak Tribe

**The Leadership Group Staff (Barrow, AK)**

Dorothy Edwardsen, Leadership Liaison, Arctic Slope Regional Corp/NSB/

NSBSD/Arctic Slope Native Association

Marjorie Solomon, Counselor II, North Slope Borough Behavioral Health,

Native Village of Barrow/Inupiat Community of Arctic Slope

Ellen Sovalik, Program Sustainability Specialist, North Slope Borough
Behavioral

Health, Native Village of Barrow/Inupiat Community of Arctic Slope

**Tohono O'odham Food Fitness Team (Sells, AZ)**

Aaran Rose Cordova, Project Coordinator, Tohono O'odham Nation Steps

Program, Tohono O'odham

Louise L. Johnson, Family & Community Specialist, Tohono O'odham Nation

Division of Early Childhood Development Head Start, Tohono O'odham

Romalda D. Miguel, Coordinator, Tohono O'odham Nation Youth Council,

Tohono O'odham

**Vision Seekers for Wellness (Crow Agency, MT)**

Christine Goodluck, Program Director, Apsaalooke Children's System of
Care,

Crow Nation

Myra J. Lefthand, Health Educator, Crow/Northern Cheyenne IHS, Crow

Nation

Rosemary Lincoln, Counselor Trainee, Crow Nation Wellness Center, Crow

Nation

**Youth Development Program (Rapid City, SD)**

William Isaac Bean, Executive Director, Youth Development Program,

Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe/Cherokee/Chickasaw

Brenda R. Mills, RN-Public Health Nurse, Rapid City Indian Health
Service,

Oglala Lakota/Pine Ridge

Richard Mousseau, Wellness Technician, Rapid City Indian Health Service,

Ogallala Sioux Tribe