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Friday, November 2 • 2:30pm - 4:00pm
Expanding Our Reach: Rural Environment Drives Innovation and Powerful Cross-Sector Interventions [RJ]

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Partnering for Native Health is a multi-state collaborative project serving members of more than 100 tribal nations in some of the most isolated and rural communities in the country. Panelists will discuss their project and their vision for the future that integrates post-secondary education, health care, legal aid, and technology to build a community-based, culturally appropriate legal extender network that empowers communities and provides access to justice to people living in places as far flung as Tuba City, Navajo Nation, to the native Village of Selawick, Alaska.
Speakers
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Liz Keith

Program Director, Pro Bono Net
Liz Keith has played a key role in Pro Bono Net’s program strategy for more than a decade. She joined Pro Bono Net as a LawHelp circuit rider, working with legal aid programs in 25 states to build online resources to increase access to legal help for low-income communities. As program... Read More →
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Nikole Nelson

Alaska Legal Services Corporation, Executive Director
Nikole Nelson is the executive director of Alaska Legal Services Corporation (ALSC), Alaska’s only statewide provider of free civil legal assistance to low-income Alaskans. Nikole oversees ALSC’s 12 offices and a 50+member staff who are scattered across the vast and remote State... Read More →
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Bob Onders

Medical Director / President, Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium/Alaska Pacific University
In early 2017, Dr. Robert Onders joined Alaska Pacific University as president. Previously, Dr. Onders served Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium (ANTHC) as medical director of Community and Health Systems Improvement. Before joining ANTHC, Dr. Onders worked as clinical director... Read More →
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Izzy Williamson

Partnering for Native Health Project Director, DNA Legal Services
Izzy Williamson is the Medical-Legal Partnership project director at DNA-People’s Legal Services, where she manages the MLP on the Navajo Nation (Four Corners Legal Care). In an effort to replicate the Four Corners Legal Care model, AmeriCorps awarded funding in 2016 to expand and... Read More →

Friday November 2, 2018 2:30pm - 4:00pm CDT
Woodway I
  Civil, Racial Justice

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