Lannesse Baker is the Public Health Officer at Seattle Indian Health Board. She directs day to day operations of a team of epidemiologists, evaluators, and program staff at the Urban Indian Health Institute (UIHI), a Public Health Authority and one of 12 Tribal Epidemiology Centers (TECs). As the only TEC serving the research, evaluation, and data needs of urban American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) people, UIHI work in service to over 90 urban located organizations in 28 states across the United States. Lannesse serves as a principal investigator on several HRSA-, CDC-, and NIH- funded projects. These projects emphasize culturally rigorous methods, frameworks, and approaches to improving health among urban AI/AN people through public health surveillance, technical assistance, health communication, and health promotion. Lannesse earned an MPH at the University of Minnesota and is currently a PhD candidate in Indigenous Health at the University of North Dakota. She is a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa and has family at the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa.

Abra is Iñupiaq from Utqiagvik, Alaska. Abra is a Birthworker, Doula and co-founder of the Alaska Native Birthworkers Community, a role through which she advances reproductive justice while serving Indigenous birthing people. She serves as a Core Committee Member with the State of Alaska Maternal Child Death Review. In this role, she brings knowledge of Alaska Native culture as well as lived experience with rural healthcare and rural emergency response systems.

She has held many roles, including managing the Pre-maternal home for Utqiagvik and the surrounding North Slope communities. She has also worked as a 911 dispatcher in the Arctic. Abra currently resides in Dgheyey Kaq’, also known as Anchorage, on Dena’ina land.

Tess Abrahamson-Richards, MPH (she/her) is a citizen of the Spokane Tribe and has lived here

in Seattle on Coast Salish territory for the past 17 years. A lifelong urban Native, she was born in London, England before spending most of her childhood in Spokane on her maternal ancestral homelands. Tess is a mother of two and is currently pursuing her PhD in Social Welfare at the University of Washington where her research is focused on Indigenous reproductive justice,holistic family wellbeing, and access to parental leave. Prior to joining Hummingbird, Tess spent 12 years working in Indigenous evaluation and research roles in university and private sector settings. In those positions, she served on the leadership team for a multisite evaluation ofTribal early childhood home visiting programs and led and contributed to a variety of other Indigenous early childhood, higher education, and public health focused projects. Tess is passionate about evaluation that centers participants’ voices, Indigenous methods, community action, stories, and strengths. She is grateful to our local Indigenous community for all of the beautiful, nurturing, creative, resistant and reclaiming spaces we share in and the healing legacies we continue to build across generations.