Center for Participatory Research

Students

Current

Graduate Research Assistant, Emma Noyes (BA) is a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation and a first-year student in the UNM Masters of Public Health program. After growing up in the reservation border town of Omak, Washington she moved to Seattle to attend the University of Washington where she studied public health and anthropology and was actively involved in the urban Native community on and off campus. Following graduation she worked as a research coordinator for the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (UW). Deeply passionate about the wellness of Native communities, she is honored to be working with the Center for Participatory Research on two projects and to be living on this beautiful land. Emma's studies are being generously supported by the Albuquerque Area Indian Health Board, Inc.

Former

Graduate Research Assistant, Rose D Chavez (BS) is a Master of Public Health candidate at UNM, focusing on a social equity, participatory evaluation and health policy. Rose is deeply rooted in the communities of northern New Mexico and southwest Colorado where she grew up and where much of her extended family still resides. She is currently a research assistant working with the Healthy Native Communities Partnership initiative. She received her BS in Nutrition/Dietetics along with minors in Chemistry and Sustainability Studies from UNM with academic distinction and looks forward to studying law after she completes her MPH.