2025 Faculty Presenters

Steven Abbott currently serves as Associate Director of Admissions and Coordinator of Indigenous Outreach for Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.  He also serves as the Advisory Fellow for Dartmouth’s Native American House, A Living-Learning Community.  Over the last 30 years, Steven has worked for a number of different organizations and institutions and has spent his entire career in higher education working primarily with Indigenous students.  His work has encompassed advising, student support & success, college access & preparation as well as recruitment & outreach at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

Allison Barlow, PhD, MPH joined the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health in 1991. In April 2016, she was named Director of the Center. She now directs the Center alongside two Indigenous co-directors, Dr. Melissa Walls and Dr. Donald Warne.  Early in her career, Allison helped launched the behavioral and mental health programs for the Center. Her health research and program portfolio focus on child, adolescent, and family health and youth development for Indigenous communities living on reservation lands. Projects to date have spanned teen parenting outreach and early child development; suicide, depression and substance abuse prevention; diabetes and obesity prevention; and youth entrepreneurship and life skills training. All programs center on training and employing Indigenous teams who design, direct, and evaluate the interventions for their tribal communities. She also co-founded the NativeVision program in 1997 with the NFL Players Association to promote Native American youth development through the mobilization of professional athletes to participate in camps and afterschool activities promoting education and healthy lifestyles. She also played a key role in the development of the Johns Hopkins public health certificate in American Indian Health for Native scholars and allied health professionals. Today, she helps lead the Center’s international work funded by a $28M LEGO Foundation award to promote early childhood well-being and family health through the Center’s Family Spirit early childhood home-visiting program; she also co-leads an NIH Center of Excellence with its primary director Dr. Melissa Walls to promote cultural strengths-based approaches to substance use prevention and recovery.

Dr. Barlow’s education includes a PhD from University of Amsterdam (2013); an MPH from Johns Hopkins (1997), an MA pursued through a Rotary International Graduate Scholarship Award from the University of Melbourne, Australia, focused on Aboriginal studies (1990), and a BA from Dartmouth College (1986).

Adria Brown (Chickasaw, she/her), is the Director of the Native American Program. In this role, she provides direction, leadership, and consultation in the educational, social, cultural, and personal development of Native and Indigenous students at Dartmouth.

Dedicated to cultivating interdisciplinary learning communities, her work as program director, social worker, and museum educator is rooted in the principles of restorative practice, abolitionist social work, and compassion. Prior to the NAP, she spent several years working in various museum education and social work roles including as the Vice-President of the Museum Education Roundtable, Associate Educator at the Saint Louis Art Museum, Curator of Exhibitions and Education at Chickasaw Cultural Center, and Program Manager at We Stories, and positions at the Laumeier Sculpture Park, and the Saint Louis Circuit Attorney’s Victim Services Unit.  

She earned a Bachelor of Arts from Dartmouth College in Native American Studies and Art History and a Master of Social Work with a Concentration in American Indian/Alaska Native Communities from the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. Raised in St. Louis, Missouri, she is an enrolled citizen of the Chickasaw Nation. She comes from the Keel Family in Tishomingo. 

Jonodev, a principal in the Chaudhuri Law office in the Washington DC area, provides legal and strategic advice to tribal nations on a wide range of issues from gaming and economic development, court and constitutional reform, regulatory issues including land into trust projects, and engagement with federal agencies.  He also serves as Ambassador for the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, the fourth largest tribal nation in the US, where he engages with Congress and federal agencies, national and international media, and representatives of tribal nations, states, and other governments to advocate for and advance the interests of the Muscogee Nation.  From 2013 to 2019, Jonodev served as Chairman of the National Indian Gaming Commission during the Obama Administration.  He earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a J.D. degree from Cornell Law School.

Casey Lozar is a vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and director of the Center for Indian Country Development (CICD), a research and policy institute that works to advance the economic self-determination and prosperity of Native nations and Indigenous communities.

Before assuming leadership of CICD, Casey was assistant vice president/outreach executive in the Bank’s department of Public Affairs, and the leader of our Helena Branch.

Prior to joining the Minneapolis Fed in 2018, Casey served in economic development and higher education roles for the State of Montana. Additionally, he held executive leadership positions in national Native American nonprofits, including the American Indian College Fund and the Notah Begay III Foundation.

Casey received degrees from Dartmouth College and Harvard University and an MBA from the University of Colorado-Denver. He serves on the Montana Board of Regents of Higher Education (past chair).

Casey is the 2021 recipient of the Janet L. Yellen Award for Excellence in Community Development and a 2022 recipient of the Honorary Leadership Award from the Native American Finance Officers Association.

A Montana native, Casey was raised on the Flathead Indian Reservation and is an enrolled member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.

Angela R. Riley (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) is Professor of Law and American Indian Studies at UCLA. She is a Special Advisor to the Chancellor on Native American and Indigenous Affairs and directs UCLA School of Law’s Native Nations Law and Policy Center as well as the J.D./M.A. joint degree program in Law and American Indian Studies. She has chaired the UCLA campus Repatriation Committee since 2010. Professor Riley’s research focuses on Indigenous peoples’ rights, with a particular emphasis on cultural property and Native governance. Her work has been published in the nation’s leading legal journals, including the Yale Law Journal, the Harvard Law Review,Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, and numerous others. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Oklahoma and her law degree from Harvard.

In 2003 Professor Riley became the first woman and youngest Justice of the Supreme Court of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She has served as Chief Justice since 2010. She previously served as Co-Chair for the United Nations – Indigenous Peoples’ Partnership Policy Board, with a dedicated mission to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. In addition to her own tribe’s Supreme Court, currently sits as an Appellate Justice at the Rincon Band of Luiseño Indians Court of Appeals and at the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians Court of Appeals.

Professor Riley is a member of the American Law Institute. She held the position of Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and currently co-teaches the Nation Building course at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. You can visit her website at www.angelarriley.com.even Abbott currently serves as Associate Director of Admissions and Coordinator of Indigenous Outreach for Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH.  He also serves as the Advisory Fellow for Dartmouth’s Native American House, A Living-Learning Community.  Over the last 30 years, Steven has worked for a number of different organizations and institutions and has spent his entire career in higher education working primarily with Indigenous students.  His work has encompassed advising, student support & success, college access & preparation as well as recruitment & outreach at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

Jami Powell was initially hired in May 2018, as the Hood’s first associate curator of Native American art. She was promoted to curator of Indigenous art in May 2021. Powell, a citizen of the Osage Nation, has a PhD in anthropology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Prior to working at the Hood she was a faculty lecturer in the American Studies Program at Tufts University. She has focused her research on American Indian expressive forms through an interdisciplinary lens. She has worked as a research assistant at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, was a Mellon Fellow at the Peabody Essex Museum, and has published widely, with articles in Museum Anthropology, Journal of Anthropological Research, Museum Management and Curatorship, Museum Magazine, and First American Art Magazine.

John is a citizen of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, descended from the respective Okanagan, Methow and Wenatchi Tribes.  He was born and raised on the Colville Indian Reservation in Omak, WA.  He currently serves as the Committee Coordinator for the Upper Columbia United Tribes to assist the collaboration of those Tribes’ work on reintroduction of salmon, wildlife habitat, water, forestry and addressing climate change impacts. Mr. Sirois carries cultural education from his grandmother and extended family that ties him to the lands and waters of the Pacific Northwest. He completed degrees at Dartmouth College (History, and Native American Studies) and Master of Public Administration at the University of Washington. He served over 20 years in the Colville Tribes’ government as an elected representative and in departments that focused on tribal lands, cultural preservation and revitalization, economic development, renewable energy project development, policy development, governance.    

Hilary Tompkins has extensive experience in natural resources and environmental law at the highest levels of government. She is currently a partner with Hogan Lovells in Washington D.C., with a practice in environmental, energy, and Native American law. She recently served in the presidentially-appointed, Senate-confirmed position of Solicitor for the U.S. Department of the Interior (2009 – 2017). Ms. Tompkins is the first Native American member of Dartmouth’s Board of Trustees.

As Solicitor, Ms. Tompkins led over 300 attorneys in the diverse areas of onshore and offshore energy development (conventional and renewable), the administration of federal water projects, conservation and wildlife legal requirements, and public land law. She oversaw litigation on behalf of Interior, including cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, and issued a number of landmark legal opinions. Her accomplishments include development of legal reforms following the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the successful defense of the first renewables on public lands, and legal clearance for the establishment of multiple national monuments. An enrolled member of the Navajo Nation and a leader in federal Indian law, she led the historic settlement of the Cobell tribal trust litigation–a class action lawsuit filed against the United States by hundreds of thousands of individual Native Americans for breach of trust.

Ms. Tompkins also served as chief legal counsel to former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and began her legal career in the prestigious Honors Program as a trial attorney in the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where she handled civil prosecutions in environmental cases across the nation.

Ms. Tompkins majored in government at Dartmouth, and she holds a JD from Stanford Law School (’96). As a Dartmouth volunteer, she has served on the Dartmouth Alumni Council, an admissions interviewer, and has mentored countless Dartmouth alumni throughout her career.

Lynn A. Trujillo is an American lawyer and government official who served as the senior counselor to the United States Secretary of the Interior since February 2023. She was the first Native American woman in the role. Trujillo was the secretary of the New Mexico Department of Indian Affairs from January 2019 to November 2022.

Donald Warne, MD, MPH, joined the Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health as Co-Director on September 1, 2022. He is an acclaimed physician, one of the world’s preeminent scholars in Indigenous health, health education, policy and equity as well as a member of the Oglala Lakota tribe from Pine Ridge, South Dakota. Dr. Warne will also serve as Johns Hopkins University’s new Provost Fellow for Indigenous Health Policy.

Warne comes from a long line of traditional healers and medicine men, and is a celebrated researcher of chronic health inequities. He is also an educational leader who created the first Indigenous health-focused Master of Public Health and PhD programs in the U.S. or Canada at the North Dakota State University and the University of North Dakota, respectively. Warne previously served at the University of North Dakota as professor of Family and Community Medicine and associate dean of diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as director of the Indians Into Medicine and Public Health programs at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Warne’s career is informed by rich work and life experiences. He served the Pima Indian population in Arizona as a primary care physician and later worked as a staff clinician with the NIH. He has also served as Health Policy Research director for the Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona, executive director of the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board, and faculty member at the Indian Legal Program of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.

Warne has received many awards recognizing his research accomplishments, educational leadership, and service work, including the American Public Health Association’s Helen Rodríguez-Trías Award for Social Justice and the Explorer’s Club 50 People Changing the World. Warne received a Bachelor of Science degree from Arizona State University, Doctor of Medicine degree from Stanford University’s School of Medicine, and a Master of Public Health degree from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.