WE - ACTING PRESIDENT
Nancy C. Tsawayugah Maryboy is the WE Acting President. She is Navajo and Cherokee, and she lives in the San Juan Islands. Nancy is the Founder of the Indigenous Education Institute and she is a Affiliate Professor in the School of Environmental and Forestry Sciences. Nancy has been PI for groundbreaking NSF projects such as “Cosmic Serpent: Bridging Native Ways of Knowing with Western Science." The work of Dr. Maryboy and her colleagues has opened a portal for collaborative science programming with traditional indigenous wisdom, which is invaluable for addressing environmental concerns of the present and future. Her pioneering work will leave a legacy for generations.
Nancy invited Whiteswan Environmental to present at her Indigenous Worldviews for Informal Science Conferences held in New Mexico and Washington DC at the National Museum of Natural History. WE are forever grateful to Nancy for her amazing mentorship and willingness to be on our board.
Nancy invited Whiteswan Environmental to present at her Indigenous Worldviews for Informal Science Conferences held in New Mexico and Washington DC at the National Museum of Natural History. WE are forever grateful to Nancy for her amazing mentorship and willingness to be on our board.
WE - SECRETARY
Rachel Wilbur is of Tolowa and Chetco descent through her mother and lives on Lopez Island, Washington. She is currently a PhD candidate in human biology at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, where she studies the impacts of social determinants and historical trauma on the contemporary health of Native Americans. She previously served as the co-President of the First Nations Graduate Circle, UNC’s Native American graduate student organization. Rachel holds a BA in medical anthropology, a BS in public health, and an MPH in health behavior. She is passionate about addressing health inequality through Indigenous knowledge.
WE - BOARD MEMBER
Paul Cheokten Wagner and his mother Sasayatha have been working with our youth and community members since 2015. Cheokten and Sasayatha are WSANEC Nation members who have generously shared a wealth of historical knowledge, cultural teachings, stories, songs, traditional healing remedies, and way of life in the archipelago of the Salish Sea as they remember lifeways before there was a International border. Cheokten also teaches our youth flute and drum making. Cheokten is the Founder of Protectors of the Salish Sea.
WE - BOARD MEMBER
Shauna Johnson is Coast Salish from the Tsawout First Nation on her mother’s side and Tsimshian from Laxkwala’ams on her father’s side. She is the Marine Use Planner for the W̱SÁNEĆ Leadership Council. She has a Master of Science degree in Indigenous Community Planning (ICP) and has specialized expertise in providing planning support for indigenous communities to revitalize and promote indigenous community planning research, methods and practices grounded firmly within indigenous laws, legal traditions and ways of knowing and being. She is a registered Applied Scientific Technologist (A.Sc.T.) and is currently working towards becoming a Registered Professional Planner (MIP, RPP). She has experience working with indigenous communities on housing strategies, comprehensive community plans (CPP), strategic, land use (reserve based, and watershed level based), environmental management, marine spatial/use plans (MSP/MUP), economic development plans and indigenous food systems projects. She is also an adjunct professor at University of British Columbia (UBC) in the School of Community of Regional Planning (SCARP) Indigenous Community Planning (ICP) program, mentoring, supervising and co-teaching ICP practicum students.
WE - BOARD MEMBER
Bonnie Duran Dr.PH (mixed race Opelousas/Coushatta descendent) is a Professor in the Schools of Social Work and Public Health at the University of Washington, in Seattle and is on the leadership team at the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (http://health.iwri.org ). She received her Dr.PH from UC Berkeley School of Public Health in 1997. Bonnie teaches graduate courses in Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR), and Mindfulness. She has worked in public health research, evaluation and education among Tribes, Native Organizations and other communities of color for over 35 years
WE - BOARD MEMBER
ŚW̱,XELOSELWET (Tiffany Joseph)–meaning “Camera Lady” in SENĆOŦEN–is a trained filmmaker, an experienced environmental steward and advocate, a SENĆOŦEN language learner, a writer, a teacher, and an astrologer. The history of W̱SÁNEĆ people’s self-advocacy has inspired her to learn and practice the W̱SÁNEĆ ways of life her elders and ancestors fought for her, while also doing whatever she can to provide those same opportunities to her children and future W̱SÁNEĆ generations. Tiffany works with the W̱SÁNEĆ Leadership Council.
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