The work of Wiba-Anung would not be possible without the interdisciplinary and intercultural collaboration of many colleagues and organizations.
Colleagues
Deanna Around Him
Deana Around Him, DrPH, ScM, is a research scholar leading the development of Child Trends’ applied research agenda to advance the well-being of Indigenous children, youth, and families. Her work specifically aims to improve the well-being of American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) children and families through culturally and scientifically rigorous research and evaluation.
https://www.childtrends.org/staff/deana-around-him
KyungSook Lee
KyungSook Lee, Ph.D., is a research associate for University Outreach and Engagement (UOE) at Michigan State University. Lee has extensive experience working in UOE since 2008 on community-based research projects, including with Wiba Anung. Her work focuses on maintaining complex longitudinal data sets and conducting sophisticated analyses of quantitative data using various statistical software tools.
https://engage.msu.edu/about/people/opes/lee
Organizations
Child Trends
Child Trends is a non-profit, non-partisan research center that promotes the well-being of all children and youth through applied research that informs public policies, builds evidence, and mines data to identify underserved young people. Their knowledge spans multiple fields, including early childhood, child welfare, school climate, reproductive health, family formation, juvenile justice, trauma, and youth development.
https://www.childtrends.org/
Creative Graphics by Eva
Eva Oldman, a citizen of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, as well as Northern Arapaho and Wind River Reservation, is an established graphic designer and artist with Associate of Applied Science degrees in Graphic Design and Web Design. Eva is an expert at building brands, designing logos, creating marketing materials, vectorizing images, creating package designs, designing page layouts, and creating digital designs!
https://www.creativegraphicsbyeva.com/about
Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan
Founded in 1968, The Inter-Tribal Council of Michigan, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) Non-Profit corporation. The agency is a consortium of the 12 federally recognized tribes within the state of Michigan, including Bay Mills Indian Community, Hannahville Indian Community, Keweenaw Bay Indian Community, Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians, Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Lac Vieux Desert Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish or Gun Lake Tribe, Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians, Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, and the Nottawaseppi Band of Huron Potawatomi.
https://www.itcmi.org
Johns Hopkins University Center for Indigenous Health
Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health is a non-profit organization that works in partnership with communities to advance Indigenous well-being and health leadership to the highest level. The Center’s core focus areas include Policy & Advocacy, Education & Training, Research & Evaluation, and Wise Practices.
https://cih.jhu.edu/
Michigan Health Endowment Fund
The Michigan Health Endowment Fund funds part of the work of Wiba Anung under grant #G-2204-150274. The Michigan Health Endowment Fund works to improve the health and wellness of Michigan residents and reduce the cost of healthcare, with a special focus on children and seniors.
https://mihealthfund.org/
Michigan State University
Many of our team members serve as staff and faculty for various offices at Michigan State University, listed below.
Department of Anthropology
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Office of Medical Education Research and Development (OMERAD)
Office of University Outreach and Engagement (UOE)
Opioid Prevention and Education Network (OPEN-MSU)
Native Children’s Research Exchange
Native Children’s Research Exchange (NCRE) is a national organization of researchers and students from academic and community settings who utilize developmental science to understand child development and apply this knowledge to intervention efforts, including early childhood in Native communities and a broader network of participants working in/with tribal Head Start, Maternal, Infant, and Early Childhood Home Visiting, Child Care Development Fund, and Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) programs.
https://coloradosph.cuanschutz.edu/research-and-practice/centers-programs/caianh/training/ncre
https://www.facebook.com/people/Native-Childrens-Research-Exchange/100064088620764/
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) is a leading national philanthropy dedicated to taking bold leaps to transform health. The foundation works to dismantle structural racism and other barriers to health through funding, convening, advocacy, and evidence-building, with communities, practitioners, and institutions to achieve health equity faster and create a future where health is a right for all.
https://www.rwjf.org/
Teachstone
Teachstone is a Certified B Corporation and educational organization that carries out assessments around teacher and student interactions using their Classroom Assessment Scoring System® (CLASS). Wiba Anung uses Teachstone’s CLASS® scoring system to help align Tribal Head Start classrooms across the country to deliver education-based curricula and ensure children’s success in kindergarten readiness.
https://teachstone.com/
Tribal Research Center for Early Childhood Development
The Tribal Research Center for Early Childhood Development (TRC) is composed of a broad network of independent community partners and researchers working collaboratively to address research, practice, and policy issues relevant to the healthy development of young American Indian/Alaska Native children. The Tribal Early Childhood Research Center (TRC) is supported by the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) under cooperative agreements 90PH0030 (2020-2025) and 90PH0027 (2016-2022).
https://coloradosph.cuanschutz.edu/research-and-practice/centers-programs/caianh/projects/trc
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/project/tribal-research-center-early-childhood-development-and-systems
https://engage.msu.edu/ways-to-engage/community-based-networks/tribal-early-childhood-research-center
White Earth Land Recovery Project
White Earth Land Recovery Project (WELRP) is a non-profit organization located on the White Earth Indian Reservation in Minnesota. WELRP restores traditional land stewardship, language fluency, community development, and cultural heritage to revive Indigenous lifeways, and protects native seeds, traditional foods, and knowledge in Indigenous land-based communities.
https://www.welrp.org/
13 Moons Recipe Book
https://aihfs.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/13-Moons-Recipe-Book-Blog-Version.pdf
Native Harvest Ojibwe Products, A Subdivision of WELRP
https://nativeharvest.com/blogs/news/13-moons-and-native-harvest-products