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Interim Board President
Larry was born and raised as Kinyaa’a’a’nii-Towering House and Dzil’ta’ahnii-Mountain Cove Clans, his Grandfather is: Tab’baaha-Water Edge and Kinlichi’nil-Red House Clans, and married to Bitahnii-Leaf Under His Cover People Clan and To’d’chi’ii-Bitter Water Clans. Larry was educated and graduated from the Window Rock Unified School District. He is the son of a Navajo Code Talker, and his great grandfather is Narbona Tso-Ta’chi’I’n’I and Kinlich’l’nii Clans, involved with the 1864-1868 Long Walk and Navajo Treaty negotiations. Larry practices the Traditional Dine Navajo orientation, gaining knowledge of being a bilingual speaker. Larry's western education includes a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from the University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA); a Public Health Certificate from Dine College.Larry and his wife adopted two Dine Navajo children through the American Indian Child Welfare Act; our participation in the Federal Repatriation Act; the American Indian Religious Freedom Act-Public Law 103-344 with the Native Inmate Spirituality. In closing, Larry has supported and participated in the Trail of Broken Treaties, Occupation of PHS 6; the Longest Walk; the Big Mountain Resistance; Supporter of Wounded Knee II Liberation; active at the Standing Rock Movement; Save Oak Flat Apache Strong Hold.
The activism to rebuild Dine Sovereignty doo Ahiyihe.
Tammi Moe
Vice President
Tammi Moe is the Director of the Octavia Fellin Public Library in Gallup, New Mexico. She oversees all library operations and stewardship of the City of Gallup’s historical materials and strategic planning for the City’s museums. Tammi holds a Masters in Library & Information Sciences from the University of Denver and brings more than 20 years of international experience working in museums, archives, and libraries. She is widely published on different facets related to information and cultural heritage in physical and digital environments. Tammi was honored as a Qatar Foundation Achiever for her work developing one of the largest visual archives documenting cultural transmission in the Islamic world and creating the first documentation of Qatar’s primary sources. Her professional accomplishments are a manifestation of believing in and following a personal vision. Tammi’s strength lies in contextualization, social intelligence, and active communication. Combining a passion for experiencing and understanding culture and her collaborative process enhances her ability to develop information pathways within any community. Tammi strives for equity and empowerment as a mentor and educator. Applying those tenets, she has successfully trained and managed international research teams in the methodologies of library and archival sciences, while overcoming barriers of language, culture, and ideology. She brings a community-focused perspective to her work. She currently serves as a Trustee for the New Mexico Library Foundation and as a board member for the New Mexico Social Justice and Equity Institute.
Percy Byron Anderson
Secretary/Treasurer
Percy was born during the civil rights movement in the 1960s. Percy’s childhood was between Manuelito, New Mexico (Navajo Nation), and Gallup, New Mexico. Post education after graduating from Gallup High School has always been with the University of New Mexico in Gallup and Albuquerque.
The majority of work history has been with the Navajo Nation government since the early 1990s starting with the Manuelito Navajo Chapter community and ending with the Navajo Nation Washington DC Office in 2014. Post-education continued with the University of New Mexico from 2015 to 2019.
Since 2018, Percy became involved with the nonprofit sector beginning as a board member of the New Mexico Social Justice Equity Institute. Today, Percy is combining his experience within the government sector as the Vice-Chair of the Manuelito Chapter Land Use Planning Committee and working part-time for the Conservation Voters New Mexico. Percy currently resides in Gallup and is planning on moving back to Manuelito for permanent residence within Surrender Canyon. Being a community advocate and organizer is setting the stage for a bright future. “Through unselfish ambition, the people will benefit.”
Anna Rondon
Project Director
Anna is Kinya’aa’aanii Clan and born for Nakai Dineh and whose grandparents are Tabaaha and Nakai Dine. She is a dedicated lifetime advocate for the rights of Indigenous people, which began from her late mother, who is Kinya’aa’aanii. She was involved in many community events and Indigenous gathering in the California Bay Area because like so many other Dine’ people, her mother left her home community of Chichiltah, New Mexico, to seek work on the railroad in 1943, which resulted in the family traveling each summer to Two Wells, the place where her mother and siblings were born. Anna Rondon experienced first-hand this diaspora of Indigenous women and their families from their ancestral homelands to urban cities to work for the railroad, which naturally resulted in negative cultural impacts but which also strengthened the endurance of the Indigenous people to continue successful nurturing of the survival of their cultural roots.
For the past 50 years, Anna Rondon has worked alongside many influential Indigenous leaders and her own spiritual advisors, which has deeply rooted her, educated her in how to navigate movement-building at the various levels of organizing for change and justice. And for the past 40 years, she has worked in various leadership positions.
She has also worked for the Navajo Nation government as a Navajo Nation, Land Use planner across the vast Navajo reservation and for the Eastern Navajo Agency-Local Governance Office and as an office manager for the Navajo Nation Chichiltah Chapter, New Mexico. Her work with the Navajo government also involved employment with the Navajo Nation Department of Health, where she was the Project Director and Co-Principal Investigator for the Navajo Birth Cohort Study, which was conducted in partnership with the University of New Mexico-Community Environmental Health, the Navajo Area U.S. Indian Health Services, and the Southwest Research and Information Center. And since the focus of her work is Indigenous rights, she has also worked as the Native Outreach Director for the Southwest Research and Information Center and with New Energy Economy, the New Mexico, Installation of Solar unit at the Crownpoint, New Mexico, Chapter, as an advocacy for the closure of San Juan Generating Station, and supporting environmental public health protections through pressuring the New Mexico Public Regulatory Commission and Public Service Company of New Mexico.
Staff
Jayme Yancy
Creative Media Director
Jayme has a bachelor’s degree in Public Health from New Mexico State University. Jayme is the Institute’s creative director in addition to youth outreach. During her time in school, she became involved in various organizations that focused on issues related to social justice and public health. She spent her summers interning at non-profit organizations that provided healthcare services to develop policies that addressed public health concerns. In addition to her advocacy work, Jayme is a strong supporter of food security initiatives, recognizing that access to healthy, sustainable food is essential for both individual and community well-being.
Jonathan Hale
Community Outreach Associate
Jonathan is from Oak Springs, AZ, Navajo Nation. He is a past member of the 22nd and 23rd Navajo Nation Council as the Chair of the Health and Education Human Services Committee with an objective to serve the constituency of the chapters and the Navajo Nation. The constituencies of both Oak Springs and St. Michaels chapters implemented some changes in their current capital assets, as they are anxious in completing their chapter building projects and to align the community to zoning and community mapping with road infrastructures. Economically St. Michael’s chapter is developed however their community assessment is not in line to further grow economically than they already are. The basics such as chapter certification needs to be accomplished to further sustain the chapter finances to develop community infrastructure.
Zunneh-bah Martin
Community Organizer
Zunneh-bah advocates for nonviolent social change, Indigenous/civil rights, environmental rights, socio natural healing/justice, animal rescue/protection, health/wellness, zero waste eco-friendly sustainable lifestyle, Indigenous gardening, Indigenous food/culinary arts, Indigenous language/culture revitalization, reproductive justice and birth/doula work, and more. She also advocates for the awareness and prevention of domestic violence, gun violence, substance abuse, child/elder abuse, bullying,missing and murdered Indigenous Peoples, and more. She founded an online initiative called U NSPIR “you inspire” (United Natives Striving for the Protection of Indigenous Rights) in 2015 to promote the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. She also manages her family’s animal rescue, Rez Animal Protectors, to help take in stray animals.
Kelsie Creel
Intern
Kelcie Creel (she/her) is a graduate student working toward her Master’s in Public Health at
New Mexico State University. She received her Bachelor’s in Psychology and Spanish from
the University of Nebraska in 2013. After witnessing the mass upheaval of the healthcare
system and its massive failings during the COVID-19 pandemic, she felt compelled to return
to academia and leave her dental assisting career. During her time at NMSU she found her
passion for projects that aim to bring health equity to underserved populations, particularly
Indigenous communities, via systems and policy change.
She joined NMSJEI as a student intern in January 2023 and will graduate from NMSU in
May 2023. She aims to collaborate with NMSJEI on projects that aim to achieve social
justice and equity and enhance her understanding of generational trauma and structural
racism. Kelcie aspires to ascend to a career in health policy analysis.