Profiles
Brenda
Bodnar,
Carrier Tribe First Nations, RD, CDE, works with the
Flathead Diabetes and Native Heart Beat Programs.
Jean
Charles-Azure, Lummi Nation, MPH, RD, is Principal
Nutrition Consultation with the Indian Health Service.
Kibbe Conti,
Lakota, MS, RD, is the creator of the Four Winds
Nutritional Model.
Meriah
Gille, Choctaw/Cherokee/Siouan,
RD,
is a dietitian and a clinical data manager at the
Native American Health Center in Oakland, California.
Juanita ("Kit")
Hines,
Menominee, RD, LD, manages food for 90 schools in the
Tulsa Public School System.
Yvonne
Jackson,
Cherokee, PhD, RD, is Director of the Office of American
Indian, Alaskan Native and Native Hawaiian Program in
the U.S. Administration on Aging.
Andrea
Jenkins,
Seminole Nation Tribe of Oklahoma, MS, RD, is a
registered dietitian and certified diabetes educator
with the Community Health Centers of Santa Maria,
California.
Maria
Steinbaugh,
Chippewa Tribe of the Turtle Mountain Reservation, North
Dakota, RD, PhD, LD, was a researcher, administrator,
and educator.
Valora Tom,
Navajo, RD, is a clinical dietitian at the Tuba City
Regional Health Care Corporation.
Elizabeth “Libby”
Watanabe,
Alaska Native (Tlingit, Haida, Tsimpshian), MPA, RD, LD,
recently was the chief dietitian and is now a health
systems analyst with the SouthEast Alaska Regional
Health Consortium (SEARHC).
Wynona ("Nonie")
Woolf,
Yakama, MPH, RD, has been doing award-winning community
work as a dietitian on the Blackfeet Reservation.