Get Excited About DOS Year III - Career Pathway Planning

On Friday the production team and I traveled to Seattle to interview Karina Walters. Her interview is the second to be recorded for our current Discovering Our Story (DOS) project series, focused on career pathway planning.

The first, recorded back in August at the annual Association of American Indian Physicians (AAIP) meeting, was with Dr. Kevin Goodluck - an MD from Albuquerque, NM. Check out the AAIP's website - http://www.aaip.org/ - for updates on next year's meeting in Anchorage, Ak.

Karina Walters, PhD (Choctaw), is the Director of the Indigenous Wellness Research Institute (IWRI), which is based out of the School of Social Work at the University of Washington. the IWRI vision is to support the inherent

rights of Indigenous peoples to achieve full and complete health and wellness by collaborating in decolonizing research and knowledge building and sharing. Check out some of their awesome research at www.iwri.org. Among their many projects, Karina is currently working on an investigation of heart health across generations in native communities and the Indigenous HIV/AIDS Research Training program, which aims to increase the number of AI/AN health researchers to successfully garner major grant funding for health issues that are tribal priorities.

Get excited for the third year of DOS, being produced this spring!