Brian Jackson, MS, EdD (Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa)

Dr. Jackson is an assistant professor with a background serving Indian Country with an emphasis on Community Based Participatory Research.

He is part of the Great Lakes Native American Research Center for Health (GLNARCH) Community Scientific Advisory Committee serving the Bemidji Area. He has worked extensively with Native American students in student development programs through storytelling and cultural teachings combining academic research and Indigenous ways of being. Furthermore, Dr. Jackson is trained as a Family Circles AODA Prevention Program facilitator; providing instruction in language, traditional cultural practices, history, and culture of Native people will be preserved, thereby restoring pride in the identity of Anishnabe.

With an introspective approach in which family members examine their own behaviors, the curriculum enables individuals to better understand how the process of realizing positive healthy lifestyles within the family begins with self-esteem building, coping skills building through Indian culture, values and lifestyles.

Jennifer Boulley, Certified Doula (Bad River)

Ms. Boulley is a member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Ojibwe and has lived in the Chequamegon Bay area for the majority of her life. She has had a unique career working for the Park Service – Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, volunteering as an AmeriCorps member for several tours off duty, serving as a foster parent, working for the Red Cliff Tribe in community/maternal child health and now working for a municipal government. Jennifer is an Indigenous Birth-worker & Water Protector. She is passionate about helping indigenous communities protect & strengthen their sovereignty.

Jacqueline Callari-Robinson, BSN, RN, SANE-A, SANE-P, D-F IAFN

Jacqueline Callari Robinson is presently the Research Assistant for HRSA SANE Grant and Tracking Our Truth, Department of Justice, FAST Grant, and a Ph.D. Student at The University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Jacqueline’s clinical practice is a tele safe nurse for the Trinity Health New York, taking call to evaluate sexual assault patients. In 2020, Jacqueline edited the SANE A/P Preparation Manuscript, published by Springer Publishing Company.

Her expertise is assessing and providing sexual abuse medical forensic care and training providers and systems to offer patient-centered compassionate care. Her present duties include oversight of the Advocacy Driven Medical Forensic Care to AI communities throughout Wisconsin, training nurses, program development, providing technical assistance, and Medical/Forensic program sustainability.

Jacqueline also served as Co-Chair of the IAFN Social Justice Committee, creates statewide protocols and procedures to develop survivor social systems response to sexual assault victims.  In 2011 she was awarded the Distinguished Fellow award from The International Association of Forensic Nurses. Jacqueline also provides case consultation and technical assistance; and develops training materials, resources, and publications.

Serena Cisneros, MS (Lac Courte Oreilles)

Serena Cisneros is Anishinaabe from the Lac Courte Oreilles Reservation and acknowledges value in Indigenous ways of healing. Serena’s areas of focus include holistic healing approach, incorporating compassion and acceptance in supporting a person’s wellness. Cisneros has worked in different mental health modalities including residential, outpatient, and community based. 

Cisneros chose to work in college health care with hopes to support, foster, and empower a student’s academic experience during their formative years. Serena also hopes to create a safe and brave place a student can explore their relationship to their emotional intelligence. 

Outside of UHS Cisneros finds nourishment in activities in nature, eating delicious food, and finding humor in her day-to-day as laughter is also healing. 

Jill Greendeer, PhD, MA, MS 
(Ho-Chunk Nation) 

Jill Greendeer, PhD, MA, MS (Ho-Chunk Nation)

As a Hocak hinuk (woman), nani (mother), sister, and relative, Jill's life purpose resides within the space of diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is part of the bridge between Indigenous communities, academia, holistic wellness, cultural traditional healing, and healthcare. Jill's life work and lived experience have prepared her for this role. She has experience working in academic, corporate, and clinical settings both within Native American communities and in mainstream society. She has lived experience as an Indigenous woman in both urban and rural environments that add to her diverse worldview and give her a strong sense of grounded Indigenous voice to pursue her life purpose of helping to heal and empower Indigenous people. 

Her experiences pursuing a PhD at University of Minnesota School of Nursing as an Indigenous woman allowed her to develop a heightened awareness of systemic racism and oppression. She recognizes systemic racism and oppression are deeply embedded within healthcare and academia. Far too often, she sees non-Indigenous people benefit at Indigenous communities’ expense when they are rewarded as leaders and advocates of diversity and equity. They often publish research articles and misrepresent, misinterpret, and misguide their ‘findings’ within Indigenous communities with adverse impacts on Indigenous communities. 

This experience gave her life purpose and call to action a deeper sense of need and urgency: the opportunity to stand her ground, speak her truth, share her Indigenous lived experience, and find comfort in uncomfortable spaces, conversations, and initiatives. She understands that we all have tremendous work to do and cannot accomplish this alone. She hopes to continue to network with others who value diverse and Indigenous voices and perspectives. 

Em Loerzel, PhD, MSW, 
Founder, The Humble Horse
(White Earth Minnesota)

Em Loerzel, PhD, MSW, Founder, The Humble Horse (White Earth Minnesota)

Em’s research primarily focuses on MMIW, domestic and sexual violence in Native communities, with an additional special interest in decolonizing research methods to take a more community-based approach, as well as the relationship between the critically endangered Ojibwe horse and their Ojibwe relatives.

Em is White Earth Ojibwe and feels strongly about the wellness and future of her community and other Indigenous ones, drawing from her practice background of working with the Chicago urban Indian community. She is also the founder of The Humble Horse, a 501(c)3 dedicated to the education and preservation of the Ojibwe horse and their relationship to the Anishinaabe people.

She strives to bring more Indigenous perspectives into research, the classroom, and the thriving of future Indigenous social workers and researchers. 

Jeneile Luebke, PhD, RN (Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa)

Jeneile Luebke PhD, RN is an Assistant Professor in the School of Nursing at University of Wisconsin–Madison. She was an Anna Julia Cooper fellow in the School of Nursing in 2020-2022, and a STREAM post-doc fellow in 2020-2021. She holds an affiliate appointment for the American Indian Studies program and a faculty member of the campus Sexual Violence Research Initiative.

She is an enrolled member of Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. She received her BS and MS in Nursing from the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and her PhD at UW–Milwaukee. Her research aims to better understand the lived experiences of gender-based violence, as well as advocating for survivor-led, trauma informed, and culturally safe interventions and options for Indigenous survivors of violence using Indigenous specific and community engaged research methodologies.

Her other current work focuses upon the relationship between land violence, planetary health, and gender-based violence among Indigenous peoples. She will be co-teaching N702: Health Promotion and Disease Prevention this fall, and N510 Culturally Congruent Practice in spring 2023.

Misty L. Wilkie, PhD, RN, FAAN [she/her] (Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa/Métis)

Dr. Wilkie is a clinical associate professor, Director & Mentor for the Pathway to Doctoral Education for AI/AN Nurses grant, and Assistant Director of Inclusivity, Diversity & Equity (IDE) at the University of Minnesota School of Nursing (UMN SON). Her research and clinical interests include supporting minority nursing students with a focus on those from American Indian/Alaska Native/Indigenous backgrounds to improve health outcomes for the individuals and their communities.

Prior to her appointment at the UMN SON, Dr. Wilkie was a Professor at Bemidji State University. During her tenure at BSU, in 2017, she was the first in Minnesota to receive a HRSA Nursing Workforce Diversity grant and was the Founder/Director of Niganawenimaanaanig (Ojibwemowin for ‘we take care of them’) securing $4.2 million in federal funding to recruit, retain, graduate, and license American Indian/Alaska Native/Indigenous baccalaureate prepared nurses.

She has served on several national diversity, equity, and inclusivity committees and is internationally recognized for her work to support minority nursing students. In collaboration with Shadow Health/Elsevier, Inc., she helped develop the first American Indian simulation for a digital clinical experience to provide nursing students across the country with an opportunity to provide culturally sensitive care to a unique Indigenous patient. 

Jeneile Luebke, PhD*, Assistant Professor, UW-Madison School of Nursing

Amy DeLong, MD, MPH Family health and adolescent health specialist, Ho-Chunk Nation House of Wellness Clinic, Baraboo, Wisconsin

Melissa Metoxen, MS, Assistant Director, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Native American Center for Health Professions

John Breuninger, RN, Community Member

Laura Hiebing, MSW, Indigenous Student Services Coordinator, UW-Madison Academic Coaching and Tutoring Services

Amy Poupart, Program Director, Native American Research Center for Health, Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, Inc.

Serena Cisneros, MS, Mental Health Provider, UW-Madison University Health Services

Lina Martin, Advocate for Uplifting Native Traditions and Indigenous Engagement, UW-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health, Native American Center for Health Professions

Joanne Schedler, RN, Community Member

Janet Dawson, Executive Assistant for Faculty Affairs & Associate Deans, UW-Madison School of Nursing

Jessica Melnik, Student Research Assistant, UW-Madison School of Nursing

Audrey Tluczek, PhD, Retired Professor, Former STREAM Program Director, UW-Madison School of Nursing