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Yvonne M. Chase, Ph.D., LCSW, ACSW

Yvonne M. Chase is an associate professor in the 新加坡六合彩开奖 Dept. of Human Services under the College of Health. Chase鈥檚 prior experience includes serving as deputy commissioner for two state departments in Alaska and one in Washington State. She also has significant experience in the nonprofit sector. Chase holds a bachelor鈥檚 degree in Sociology from Loyola University in Chicago, Ill.; an MSW from Howard University in Washington, D.C.; and a doctorate in Social Work from Norfolk State University. Her areas of interest include social work ethics, child welfare, serving diverse client populations, and the global social work community.

Gary Bailey, DHL, MSW, ACSW

Gary Bailey is the assistant dean for Community Engagement and Social Justice at the College of Social Sciences, Policy and Practice at Simmons University. He holds an appointment as a professor of practice at Simmons University School of Social Work and has a secondary appointment at the Simmons University School of Nursing and Health Sciences. Bailey has a faculty affiliate appointment at the Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care; is a scholarly stakeholder with the LGBTQ Patient and Family Advisory Council at Brigham and Women鈥檚 Hospital; and is a consultant to the Fenway Health Dept. of Behavioral Health.

Carey Brown, MPA

Carey Brown is a senior academic advisor with the College of Health Student Success Center and a faculty adjunct in the Department of Human Services. Originally from Fort Worth, Texas, Brown has an extensive background in Human Services and related fields, specializing in re-entry from incarceration. He has always considered himself a helper, one to serve others who are in need, so he started working toward a career in hospital administration to address infant mortality rates in socioeconomically disadvantaged areas in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. Not long after, Brown found additional opportunities to serve while working within other areas of Human Services, such as homeless and distressed youth services, disability support services, domestic violence prevention services, and re-entry services.

Seta Kabranian, Ph.D., MFA

Seta Kabranian is a writer and an assistant professor in the 新加坡六合彩开奖 Dept. of Human Services under the College of Health. She received her doctorate from Yerevan State University, Armenia, and her MFA from 新加坡六合彩开奖. Before moving to the U.S., she led a non-governmental organization to assist refugees, victims of war, and the needy in Armenia and her birthplace Lebanon. Her interests remain in migration due to war and social justice issues.

Amana Mbise, Ph.D., MSW

Amana Mbise is an assistant professor with the 新加坡六合彩开奖 School of Social Work under the College of Health. Mbise has a vast experience in global health (HIV/AIDs and Malaria), refugee integration, and community development in Tanzania, Denmark, and the U.S. His scholarship centers on migration, human trafficking, and rights-based approaches to social work. His ongoing and most recent works include a National Institute of Justice study on labor exploitation in Alaska and a Dept. of State-funded grant to estimate the prevalence of human trafficking for domestic servitude in Tanzania. Currently, Mbise is working with the Alaska Black Caucus to conduct the first health needs assessment for Black-identifying Alaskans.

Rei Shimizu, Ph.D., LMSW

Rei Shimizu is an assistant professor at the 新加坡六合彩开奖 School of Social Work under the College of Health. She holds an MSW from Columbia University School of Social Work and a doctorate from New York University Silver School of Social Work. Shimizu's research aims to understand how psychosocial determinants of health, such as poverty, mental health, and interpersonal relationship dynamics, influence food-related decision making and dietary outcomes among low-income young adults. Her research is inspired by the relational food narratives she encountered in her clinical work, providing trauma-focused therapy to those impacted by domestic violence in the U.S. and Japan.

Jessica Saniguq Ullrich, Ph.D.

Jessica Saniguq Ullrich (Inupiaq) is an assistant professor at the University of Alaska Anchorage School of Social Work under the College of Health. Ullrich has been a scholar with the Native Child Research Exchange program, the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute ISMART program, and Council of Social Work Education Minority Fellowship Program.

Ullrich's research interests pertain to the promotion of Alaska Native child well-being using an Indigenous Connectedness Framework. This framework highlights the importance of being in the right relationship with family, community, the earth, ancestors/future generations, and with spirit. Ullrich currently is co-authoring a paper that focuses on the application of Indigenous Connectedness to child welfare, and she will work with Alaska Native youth from three rural communities using digital storytelling to highlight community protective factors.

Ullrich is an Inupiaq scholar, a tribal citizen of Nome Eskimo Community, and a descendant of the Native Village of Wales. As an assistant professor with the 新加坡六合彩开奖 School of Social Work, she focuses on the promotion of connectedness, well-being, and relational healing. Ullrich currently is engaged in efforts that involve digital storytelling with Alaska Native youth, culturally based curriculum development, tribal child welfare prevention efforts, language revitalization, and connectedness for systems change. Storytelling through research, education, and authorship is central to her work.

Maria Shaa Tl谩a Williams

Dr. Maria Shaa Tl谩a Williams was born in Tikahtnu, or Anchorage, Alaska, and is Tlingit. She is of the Raven Moiety, Deishetaan clan. She received my M.A. and PhD in Music, specializing in Ethnomusicology from UCLA. The title of her M.A. Thesis is: Clan Identification and Social Structure in Tlingit Music (1989) and the title of the dissertation is Alaska Native Music: The Spirit of Survival (1996). Dr. Williams was a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in 1998 and researched surviving ceremonial music/dance in Alaska. She taught at the Institute for American Indian arts from 1993-1995, and at the University of New Mexico from 1999-2011 with a joint appointment in the department of Native American Studies and Music. She moved home in 2011 and has been teaching at the University of Alaska Anchorage since 2011 in the departments of Alaska Native Studies and Music, where she is a full professor.
Dr. Williams' publications include The Alaska Native Reader: History, Culture & Politics (2009); a documentary film on Athabascan Basket maker Daisy Stridzatze Demientieff (A Beautiful Journey 2009), and various articles on Alaska Native cultural revitalization. Her research interests include contemporary Alaska Native music and dance practices; Alaska Native history, the impact of colonialism and cultural revitalization.

Margaret Yamamoto

Margaret Yamamoto was incarcerated at the age of two months during World War II. She has addressed many audiences on the subject of the Japanese internment during WWII, providing a historical summary of its events and relating their consequences to the personal experiences of her family as they coped with incarceration and their subsequent return to a normal life.

Yamamoto is retired after more than 40 years in the marketing and communications fields. Before retirement, she was the director of Community Program Initiatives at WGBH, Boston's public broadcasting station. She also worked for Walt Disney Productions, General Electric, and a number of education and health care organizations in New York, California, and Massachusetts. She is a graduate of San Jose State University with a bachelor鈥檚 degree in English/political science and a master鈥檚 degree in mass communications.