Unified Solutions is proud of its highly-qualified and diverse team of staff, consultants, project partners, and mentors. Providing fresh insight and relevant, skills-based practices that can be applied immediately in the workplace, these respected professionals deliver valuable information and assistance to tribal community programs. They share their own personal and professional experiences from the heart and provide a level of support that reinforces the strength and dignity of tribal cultures.

Unified Solutions Technical Assistance Staff

Aaliyah Gina Gavaris, LPC
Executive Director
gina@unified-solutions.org

Gina is a licensed professional counselor and founder and executive director of Unified Solutions Tribal Community Development Group, Inc., a 501c3 national nonprofit agency dedicated to partnering with AI/AN communities and their allies to end violent crime, heal from the effects of trauma, and celebrate resilience. Unified Solutions is the current Training and Technical Assistance Provider for Tribal Victim Assistance Programs sponsored by the Office for Victims of Crime, US Department of Justice. Formerly, Gina directed the Walking in Balance Family Violence Intervention Programs at the Pascua Yaqui (Hiaki) Tribe, where she established numerous programs, including the tribal victim compensation program, tribal batterer re-education program, and the Yoeme Traditional Arts Program. She has co-chaired the Southwest Indian Coalition Against Domestic Violence, chaired the Pascua Yaqui Collaborative Community Response Team, and served as a member of the Federal and Tribal Effective Sex Offender Management Teams and Tribal Public Safety Committee. She assisted in drafting and introducing new legislation for the Pascua Yaqui Victim Rights Ordinance, the Sex Offender Notification Law, the Collaborative Community Response Protocol, and helped broaden definitions of domestic abuse and sexual assault for the Tribal Code. Gina has current board seats as the Vice-President of Marketing and Membership at the American Society of Training and Development of Southern Arizona and as Community Liaison for the Counselors for Social Justice Division of the American Counseling Association (ACA). She is a professional member of the ACA and the American Mental Health Counselors Association, and an advisory board member for the Native American Circle Domestic Violence Fatality Review initiative, and the National Center for Victims of Crime Victim Assistance Online Training project. She sits on the curriculum development committee of the national American Indian/Alaska Native Victim Assistance Academy. She is the author of "A Cross-Cultural Introduction to Working with Native Americans who are Victims of Crime."

Natalia Calhoun Tseteesia
Training & Development Specialist
Lummi Nation
natalia@unified-solutions.org

Natalia is an enrolled member of the Lummi Nation located in northwest Washington State. As the former manager of the Lummi Victims of Crime Program, Natalia successfully lead the development of the first Native Domestic Violence Shelter in the State of Washington. She has experience and/or provided training in domestic violence, sexual abuse, stalking, teen dating violence, elder abuse, healthy relationships, managing grants, management, development and managing domestic violence shelters, victim advocacy, violence in the workplace and child abuse. Natalia has served on many boards and committees including the following: Washington State Commission Against Domestic Violence Board of Directors, Bellingham-Whatcom County Commission Against Domestic Violence and served as Chairperson for the Victims and Children Committee, Audit Committee member (evaluated the response to Domestic Violence by the Whatcom County Sheriff, Bellingham Police Department, Jail and 911), Washington State Crime Victims Compensation Advisory Committee, Violence in Indian Country Working Group, TVA Advisory Committee, and the Lummi: Health and Law and Justice Commissions, Election, Certifying and Constitution Revision Committees.

Natalia’s knowledge and experience in leadership and management has developed from holding joint-ownership in four different businesses where she was responsible for management, daily operations, and bookkeeping. She has also gained experience in management, team supervision and group presentation from her employment with Morrison-Knudsen Construction Company, Inc. in the human resources and the engineering department, as a program manager for both the Work Experience Center and Job Training Partner Act at Northwest Indian College and working in Lummi Tribal Administration as a manager for the Victims of Crime Program, the Land Development, and the Council Operations Department. Natalia’s enjoyment of flying began at age 19 and lead her to successfully solo a Cessna 350. Natalia’s travel-lust has resulted in travel throughout Europe, to Africa, to Mexico and all but five of the United States. An avid runner, Natalia has completed 2 marathons and numerous half-marathons.

Dianne Barker Harrold
Attorney General for the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee
Cherokee
dianne@unified-solutions.org

A member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, Barker-Harrold has lived her entire life in Northeastern Oklahoma. She attended Northeastern State University and graduated cum laude with a Bachelors in Social Work and Psychology with a double minor in Criminal Justice and Humanities. She obtained her Juris Doctor at the University Of Tulsa College Of Law. Since that time she has served as a district attorney for eight years and was in private practice for 18 years. While in private practice she served as tribal court judge for thirteen Indian Tribes in Oklahoma. In 1994 she was elected District Attorney for the 27th Prosecutorial District of Oklahoma and served two, four year terms in that capacity. In February of 2003, she was appointed as Attorney General for the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokees in Oklahoma and currently serves in that capacity.

Dianne Barker-Harrold has taught as an adjunct professor for ten years at NSU in Tahlequah and currently teaches at Bacone College as an adjunct instructor in the area of business law. She has been a contract trainer for the Oklahoma Regional Community Policing Institute training law enforcement agencies throughout the State of Oklahoma in the areas of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Stalking. She is co-owner and partner of Three Starr Consulting as a gaming consultant and serves as a contract trainer for USTCDGI in Tucson, Arizona. She is also a certified trainer for the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia. She is married to a law enforcement officer and has three daughters and six grandchildren. Her hobbies are gardening and cross stitching and crafts.

Melissa E. Riley
Training and Technical Assistance Specialist
Mescalero Apache Tribe
melissa@unified-solutions.org

Melissa is married with 4 children, and is a member of the Mescalero Apache Tribe. She is a graduate of New Mexico State University, where she received her B.A. in Human and Community Services, with a minor in Community Health and a minor in Criminal Justice. She is currently pursuing a Masters degree in Counseling and Educational Psychology, and a teaching license. Melissa has worked over 11 years in Native American communities in Arizona and New Mexico, where she received case management experience in child and adult protection services and advocating for victims rights. Her work experience has enabled her to work with Native Americans in the behavioral health sector and create innovative services for small communities that respect and promote wellness.

Melissa has performed extensive research in areas such as the ‘Impact of Incarceration on the Family Structure’ and ‘Multicultural Counseling’. She has been a co-principal to a Native American environmental consulting company, an active participant in the New Mexico Native American Sub-Committee for Indian Affairs and is a member of the Work Task Force Sub-committee for NM Native Americans. She has been honored to be a guest speaker at numerous conferences in New Mexico advocating for older adults rights, as well as promoting higher education for Native Americans. Melissa has developed training/presentations revolving around the necessity of service providers to be culturally proficient when working with Native Americans, as well as the diversity of religion/spirituality in Native communities as it relates to self-efficacy.

Claudia Rivas
Project Assistant
claudia@unified-solutions.org

Claudia is a part time employee at Unified Solutions. She is pleased to be working for Unified Solutions because she believes that it is an environment where she can constantly learn new things and feel good about what she is doing. Claudia is committed to helping people and knows that Unified Solutions will provide her with the opportunity to provide support and assistance to Native American communities.

Claudia is originally from Hermosillo, Sonora, but has lived in Tucson for over 15 years. She is very blessed to have a rich culture full of traditions and beliefs and is dedicated to helping fellow minorities succeed. Claudia’s long term goals are to travel through out all of Latin America, write her own book based on her cultural experiences and cultural knowledge, help Mexican immigrants succeed in the U.S, and to enjoy every moment of life that she is blessed with.

USTCDG Project Partners

Michael Kaiser, SRC
Director, National Center for Victims of Crime

Michael Kaiser has worked in the area of victim assistance since 1983 and as the Director of Programs at the National Center for Victims of Crime since 2001. He oversees the Teen Victim Project, and the Stalking Resource Center, and has overseen the 1-800-FYI-CALL and the Training Institute. Mr. Kaiser also works on a variety of special initiatives at the National Center, including conducting focus groups with victims and providers, developing marketing strategies, providing technical assistance and training. Mr. Kaiser has a BA in Human Ecology from The College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Throughout his career, Mr. Kaiser has developed new programs and expanded the capacities of communities to respond to victims, including developing model policies in the areas of police response to domestic violence and stalking; developing emergency, transitional, and permanent housing for battered women and intimidated victim/witnesses; creating training programs and service delivery protocols for identifying and serving domestic violence victims in the medical setting; and, implementing programs directed at addressing the issue of teen victimization. Mr. Kaiser has trained extensively training and the local and national level, including training police, doctors, youth development workers, employee assistance providers, prosecutors, and victim assistance providers. He has trained on broad range of issues, including: domestic violence, stalking, the use of technology to stalk, teen victims, community assessment, program evaluation, training and presentation skills, safety planning, crime victims and the media, fund raising, and collaboration.

USCCGI Training Consultants

Gus Abeita
Director, Five Sandoval Behavioral Health Clinic
Laguna/Santa Domingo Pueblo

Gus is an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna. He has more than 20 years experience working with tribal, city, state, and federal agencies providing mental health, addictions counseling, and child welfare services as well as managing and developing programs. He has been licensed by the State of New Mexico as an alcohol and drug abuse counselor.

Gus has served as Chairman of the Pueblo of Laguna Colony in Albuquerque, NM. He has also provided leadership to Native organizations such as the Albuquerque Area Intertribal Council on Substance Abuse and the NM Indian Behavioral Health Board. He has served as an advisory board member to the Young Eagle’s Wings Head Start Program in Wichita, KS, and has been the Head Coach for children’s tee-ball teams. Gus has served as a consultant and speaker for national organizations such as the National Public Child Welfare Administrators and the National Call to Action for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect. He serves as an Expert Panel Member to the newly created National Resource Center on Substance Abuse and Child Welfare and as a member of the American Psychiatric Association/Child Welfare League of America Foster Care/Mental Health policy development board. He was also appointed to serve on the Tribal Victims Assistance National Work Group for the Office for Victims of Crime. He was awarded U.S. Children’s bureau Scholarship to complete graduate studies in Social Work at New Mexico Highlands University.

He currently works as an independent consultant to tribal, state, and federal programs serving children and their families, providing training and technical assistance with a focus on program and community development.

Andrea Hernandez Holm
Research & Publications Specialist
andrea@unified-solutions.org

Andrea received her bachelor’s degree in English and her master’s degree in American Indian Studies from the University of Arizona. Her professional experiences include teaching a variety of courses to students at the elementary and middle school levels, including Creative Writing, Introduction to Drawing, Creative Expression, and Arts & Crafts. She has also taught American Indian Oral Traditions, American Indian Literature, and American Indian Religions at the college level under the direction of scholars N. Scott Momaday, Michelle Grijalva, and Tom Holm. She has served as editor of Red Ink and as a board member of the ArtsReach Board of Directors. Andrea’s experience includes serving as a freelance writer, editor and writing consultant. She is also a published poet. Her most recent projects have included serving as the Project Researcher/Writer of Tiller’s Guide to Indian Country: Economic Profiles of American Indian Reservations by Tiller Research, Inc. of Albuquerque.

Andrea is a long-time resident of central and southern Arizona. She was born and raised in the Casa Grande area. Her family arrived in the region in the 1940s, on a journey that began in their homelands of Chihuahua, Mexico. Her heritage is mestizo of Tarahumara, Nahuatl, and Spanish ancestry. Andrea and her husband Garett (Cherokee/Muscogee Creek) enjoy the antics of their two children, Ezikiel and Joaquin, and are very happy to be back in Arizona among family, friends, and the desert.

Barry Skye
LacDuFlambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa

Barry Skye joined the staff of Native American Circle, Ltd. (NAC) in late 2003 as Project Director for NAC’s “urban initiative,” which is currently funded by the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW), with additional funding support from Indian Health Service for the work of NAC’s National Domestic Violence Urban Collaborative (NDVUC). Prior to becoming an NAC team member, he divided his work between national training, speaking engagements and working with Native Men in the Domestic Abuse Program in Duluth. His work as the Native Men’s Program Coordinator included monitoring offenders through the Domestic Abuse Intervention Project in Duluth. He has provided “in-services” and seminars to schools, colleges, social workers and mental health providers, and has lectured and demonstrated the database system Duluth designed for tracking offenders in Metropolitan and rural areas. He has also worked on video production for the Native men’s program and serves on the board for two local native women’s organizations, including one Native Coalition, and Indian Education for the school district. Barry has participated in numerous advanced training workshops for Native facilitators across the lower forty eight and has taught facilitating skills in Duluth’s Power and Control model in the lower forty-eight and Alaska. He has lectured at conferences with the Domestic Abuse Program and Mending the Sacred Hoop Technical Assistance project and served as a faculty member of the Mending the Sacred Hoop Technical Assistance Project, and as an advisory board member for the Victim Advocacy Training Online Project developed by the National Center for Victims of Crime. Barry has also provided training on a variety of topics to tribal grantees of the Office for Victims of Crime and acts as a consultant and peer grant reviewer for several federal funding programs. He has a Bachelors of Arts degree from Park University in Kansas City Missouri. He served seven years with the United States Marine Corps and spent eight years as a school social worker in the St. Paul and Minneapolis School districts. He is currently in graduate school, pursuing his Master’s Degree in Counseling from the University of Wisconsin in Superior. Barry is an enrolled member of the LacDuFlambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa in Wisconsin.

Alejandro Benally
Chief of Police, San Carlos Apache Tribe
Navajo Nation

Coleen Clark
Domestic Violence Coordinator, Family Violence Resource Center,
Assiniboine

Coleen Clark is currently the domestic violence coordinator under the STOP Violence Against Indian Women for the Family Violence Resource Center. One duty coordinating fourteen volunteer advocates. She in an enrolled member of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes in Northeast Montana and employed there for 27 years. Her work with victims of domestic violence began in 1978 when she opened her home as a safe house.

In 1993 she became the first Native American victim/witness coordinator in Indian country under OVC’s initiative Share the Vision. She holds certifications as a trainer in domestic violence, sexual assault, Expert Indian Witness in ICWA cases. She has presented on court preparation for child victims in Indian country to a five State Judges conference, developed and presented power point presentations on gangs, family violence, and cultural holistic approaches to wellness at national, state, and tribal conferences. In 1997 she received a crime victims advocacy award from the Montana United States Attorney for her work to reduce crime and violence on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. She is a lifelong practitioner of her Assiniboine culture and traditions.

Terri Graham
Choctaw/Cherokee

Terri worked for the Lummi Nation Police Department (LNPD) as a police officer and detective for 11 years before becoming a consultant for USCCGI in June of 2005. As a former employee of the LNPD Terri spent 2 years on patrol. While on patrol she was involved with Highway Traffic Safety and traffic education. Terri’s third year was spent working as a state certified Juvenile Probation Officer, where she worked within the tribal and state court system. Terri was then promoted to a detective where she investigated child abuse/neglect, sex crimes and domestic violence within the tribal, state and federal system.

Terri was responsible for investigating and working with the Washington State U.S. Attorney’s office in regards to obtaining the first federal conviction throughout the United States for a domestic violence related assault which occurred in Indian country.

Terri has served on the Lummi Tribal Child Protective Team (CPT), the Whatcom County Child Death Review Board, the Lummi Domestic Violence Task Force and the Whatcom County Superior Court Prosecutors Review Board for Sex Crimes.

Terri has participated in presenting training to the Lummi Community regarding domestic violence and violence in the work place. She has also presented at local women’s shelters (domestic violence) and at the Northwest Tribal Judges Association (Full Faith and Credit-the law enforcement response).

Terri has received training and has experience involving criminal investigations, crime scene and death investigations, sex offender registration and criminal profiling. She has also received extensive training and experience in domestic violence, interviewing and interrogation, forensic interviewing of children, child abuse and neglect, rape and sexual assault and sex offender grooming of child victims and their families.

Terri is a descendant of the Choctaw and Cherokee Nations. She has been married for 25 years and has two adult sons. She is passionate in regards to wellness and justice in Indian country. Terri likes to draw, paint and sketch. She is also a budding photographer.

Jeffrey Hepting
Chief of Police, Pueblo of Acoma
Acoma Pueblo

Jeff is an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Acoma. He currently serves as Chief of Police for the Pueblo of Acoma Law Enforcement Services, where they have both traditional and Tribal Court, the western form of law. Chief Hepting serves as the Chief Prosecutor for the Tribal Court. Chief Hepting is the former Chairperson for the International Association of Chief’s of Police, (IACP’s)—Indian Country Law Enforcement section. While serving as the Chairperson he also served as an advisor to IACP’s Services and Support to Smaller Police Agencies Program. Jeff served a yearlong fellowship with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in Washington, DC. Most recently Jeff participated in the IACP’s Summit on Building Private Security/Public Policing Partnerships to Prevent and Respond to Terrorism and Public Discord. Jeff is a member of various boards for the state of New Mexico, dealing with topics such as highway safety, tribal youth initiatives and domestic violence. Some of the organizations that Jeff belongs to are: New Mexico Crime Data Project Advisory Committed (PAC) Member, Criminal Justice Summit on Impaired Driving, Justice Information Exchange Model, (JIEM), Certified, IACP National Violence Against Women Advisory Group, Interagency Agreement—Indian Health Service & National Highway Traffic Safety Administration—Tribal Law Enforcement Initiative.

Jesucita Hernandez
Program Manager, Walking in Balance Family Violence Intervention
Pascua Yaqui Tribe

Jesucita Hernández is a resident of this small but unique town of Guadalupe. She is deeply interested in all that pertains to Guadalupe, its growth, its up building but most importantly its people. Ms. Hernández has lived in Guadalupe most of her life and is an enrolled member of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe. Her first job was for Centro de Amistad as a drop out prevention specialist for teens in her community. This program was dear to her heart since she too was a participant of the first trail program. This program was where she first began to learn about the hardships teen encountered in the homes such as domestic violence, child abuse and financial burdens. This was where Ms. Hernández learned she could be an advocate for those who needed help even if she was only a teen herself. As Ms. Hernández continued to pursue her education in Business Management, she found herself working for other agencies such as the Tempe School District as a school Liaison. Here, Ms. Hernández learned more about the legal aspects of truancy and assisted the court with helping families in crisis situations. Ms. Hernández realized she had a heart for people and she wanted to not only give back to her community but to her people. She pursued a position in victim services with the Pascua Yaqui Tribe Walking In Balance Program.

Ms. Hernández was hired as a Family Violence Intervention Outreach Worker on April 14, 2003. In that time she found the need to form a crisis response team to eliminate the gap between the Town agencies and the Pascua Yaqui Tribe. This team would assist her program in finding out what resources were out there in order to assist victims of crime with excellence. As time went on and the team grew, Ms. Hernández with the assistance of her co-worker, Esperanza Tavena, were able to bring speakers and trainers to the team members to continue to educate and appreciate the work and services they provide people daily. Ms. Hernández was elected by the team members to chairs and facilitates the crisis response team now known as the Guadalupe Intervention Support Advocacy Team. The team was formed in June of 2003 and continues to grow in membership with new agencies and community members. G.I.S.A.T. under the supervision of Ms. Hernández has helped to increase funding for the Walking in Balance Victim Services with the STOP Violence Against Native Women Grant awarded in 2004. Ms. Hernández recently became Program Manager for The Walking In Balance Program in Guadalupe on January 24th, 2005.

Ms. Hernández along with the support of her staff continues to educate communities, schools and agencies in victim advocacy & domestic violence. Ms. Hernández knows that without the support of her director, staff and family, none of this would be possible. Ms. Hernández would also like to make note that without great leadership and the wisdom of others, specifically Gina Gavaris from Unified Solutions, she would not have gone as far as she did. Surrounding one self with people of experience and knowledge will give you the wisdom and strength to continue to fight for any cause but most importantly for people.

Sharon Katz
Program Manager, Tribal Drug Court Program, Pascua Yaqui Tribe

Sharon Katz has worked for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe for 10 years. During that time, she has developed and implemented several innovative programs providing services to parents and their children. She developed and continues to coordinate the first Tribal Family Healing Court (AKA Family Drug Court) in the United States; a Civil Court program for CPS-involved parents who are seeking reunification with their children. Prior to this, Ms. Katz developed, implemented and managed the Healthy Families Pascua Yaqui program, a home visitation program that has been shown to be effective in child abuse prevention. Her areas of expertise include child abuse issues, child development, substance abuse and mental illness. She is experienced in grant writing, program development, and provision of clinical supervision and direct services. Ms. Katz has a long history of successful grant writing for the Pascua Yaqui Tribe, on whose behalf she has been awarded over $1,000,000 in funding for various programs.

Ms. Katz has served as a consultant to the Native American Alliance Foundation (NAAF), in the preliminary development of their Family Healing to Wellness Court planning curriculum. She served on a panel, coordinated by NAAF, that presented at the 2003 National Association of Drug Court Professionals’ Annual Juvenile and Family Drug Court Conference, and gave a plenary presentation at NAAF’s Family Healing to Wellness Court planning training in June, 2004, attended by teams from 25 Tribes. Ms. Katz earned a B.A. in Psychology and Women’s Studies from Antioch University West, San Francisco, California. She holds an M.S.W. from San Jose State University, California. Ms. Katz is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) in the State of Arizona.

Veronica S. M. Cook
Program Manager, Hiapsi Kuakte Violence Intervention Program
Pascua Yaqui Tribe

Veronica S. Martinez is an enrolled member of the Pascua Yaqui (Hiaki) Tribe. She lives on the Pascua Yaqui Reservation, located about 15 miles south of the city of Tucson, Arizona. Currently there are about 13,000 enrolled Yaqui members; nearly 4,000 reside on the reservation.

Veronica has worked in Domestic Violence Intervention/Victim Services for approximately five years. She has provided education, training, and outreach for victims, families, employees, and communities on and off of the reservation. In addition, she has served as an advocate in the courts. Veronica leads the Batterer’s Re-education Men’s & Women’s Groups. She also leads groups for victims of violence, performs crisis intervention, and is an active consultant for agencies nationwide.

As of October 1, 2004, the Walking in Balance Violence Intervention Victim Services Program was separated and reorganized. Today, it consists of two programs: the Walking in Balance Victim Services and the Hiapsi Kuakte Violence Intervention Program. Veronica is currently the supervisor of the Batterer’s Re-Education court ordered program.

Veronica is dedicated to continuing her education, and is currently enrolled in the Introduction to Administrative Criminal Justice course. Some of her previous coursework was in Domestic Violence, Crisis Intervention, and Introduction to Psychology, Sociology, and Chemical Dependency.

Pamela Moore
Christian Children's Fund

Pam Moore has twenty five years of experience with program planning and proposal writing, non-profit administration, community organizing, and fund-raising. She possesses ten years of experience administering and implementing rural domestic violence and sexual assault crisis intervention projects. She is also very experienced in volunteer recruitment and training, interpersonal and communication skills training and survivors support groups. She holds eight years experience working with victims of crime and operating Victim Services Unit in the District Attorney’s office for a four county area in the state of Oklahoma. Ms. Moore was responsible for the development of the Homicide Response Team and involved with the development of the Crime Victims Clinic concept for responding to multiple victimization incidents.

Ms. Moore is a Certified Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Intervention Professional through the Oklahoma Coalition Against Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault and a Certified Trainer for the Federal Law Enforcement and Training Council.

Elton Naswood
Training Consultant, Tri-Ethnic Center
Navajo Nation

Elton is of the Near to the Water People Clan, born for the Edge Water People Clan, his maternal grandfather’s clan is of the Mexican People, his paternal grandfather’s clan is of the Tangle People, this is how he is Navajo, Dine.

Mr. Naswood is originally from Whitehorse Lake, NM but grew up in Window Rock, AZ on the Navajo Reservation.

Mr. Naswood is the Project Coordinator for the Red Circle Project, a Native American HIV Prevention program at AIDS Project Los Angeles (APLA) and served as a member of the Advisory Board for the National Native American AIDS Prevention Center. He also is a consultant for the Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research at Colorado State University.

He previously worked for the Tribal Law & Policy Institute as Program Manager with projects including Healing to Wellness (Drug) Court initiative and technical assistance, Hualapai Nation Child Abuse and Neglect Program Review, Tribal Legal Studies Editorial Review Board and serves on the American Indian/Alaska Native Victim Assistance Academy Development Committee.

Mr. Naswood received his Bachelors of Arts Degree in Sociology and American Indian Justice Studies from Arizona State University and is a Candidate for a Masters Degree in American Indian Studies at UCLA.

Erin Good
Victim Advocate

Erin Good (Métis) is currently employed at the Pima County Attorney’s Office as a Victim Witness advocate for the Special Victims Unit. Prior to employment as an advocate, Erin worked for Unified Solutions as a member of the Research & Publications team. She earned a Bachelor's Degree in Anthropology from Central Michigan University, where she was a member of the North American Indian Student Organization. Erin is very passionate about native languages, and she has studied Michif, the Métis language, and Anishinaabemowin, the Ojibwe language. Erin became interested in human rights issues after spending six weeks in Bolivia during the summer of 2001, where she lived and worked with Aymara and Quechua people. In her spare time, Erin volunteers at the Southern Arizona Center Against Sexual Assault as a crisis advocate. She hopes to continue her education with a Master’s degree in Social Work.

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