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Healthcare Advocacy: Being Your Own Health Champion with Joseph Small

Welcome to another episode of Impact Unfiltered, where we dive deep into honest conversations with leaders creating real change in healthcare and beyond. In this session, host Philippe sits down with Joseph Small, Senior Manager for Community Engagement at Care Access, a Boston-based global health research company. Joseph Small shares his personal journey from decades in educational publishing to driving grassroots health awareness in underserved and marginalized communities, including communities of color and Indigenous groups across North America.

Strength Through Adversity Richard Peterson on Tribal Leadership

Welcome to another episode of Impact Unfiltered, where we dive deep into honest conversations with leaders creating real change in healthcare and beyond. In this session, host Stuart sits down at the Self-Governance Conference with Richard Peterson — President of the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska, serving his sixth term as leader of the oldest federally recognized tribe in Alaska, with just under 39,000 citizens.

Breaking Barriers in Native Filmmaking Jeremy Charles

Welcome to another episode of Impact Unfiltered, where we dive deep into honest conversations with leaders creating real change in healthcare and beyond. In this session, recorded at the Tribal Self-Governance Conference, host Philippe sits down with Jeremy Charles, a Cherokee filmmaker based in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and the founder of Pursuit Films — now 12 years uninterrupted creating documentaries with tribal nations across Indian country.

Faith and Resilience Jessica Schneider on Rural Health

Welcome to another episode of Impact Unfiltered, where we dive deep into honest conversations with leaders creating real change in healthcare and beyond. In this session, host Stewart sits down on the floor of a tribal health conference at Wild Horse Pass with Jessica Schneider, an Alaska Native leader from a remote Arctic Circle village of roughly 670 people. Jessica serves on her tribal council as secretary and as the at-large chair for behavioral health social services on the Maniilaq Association Health Board.

Shaping Tribal Self-Governance with Lloyd Miller

Welcome to another episode of Impact Unfiltered, where we dive deep into honest conversations with leaders creating real change in healthcare and beyond. In this session, host Stewart sits down at the Self-Governance Conference with Lloyd Miller — an Indian law attorney and registered lobbyist who has been practicing Indian law since 1979, with three U.S. Supreme Court victories under his belt and his fingerprints on nearly every major piece of tribal self-governance legislation.

Sovereignty and Healing as One: Sherylene Yazzie’s Vision

Welcome to another episode of Impact Unfiltered, where we dive deep into honest conversations with leaders creating real change in healthcare and beyond. In this session, recorded at the Self-Governance Conference as a companion to the episode with Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren, host Stewart sits down with Sherylene Yazzie, Executive Director of the Navajo Department of Health for the great Navajo Nation.

Dr. Randy Smith: Stopping the Rural Brain Drain with Tribal Healthcare

Welcome to another episode of Impact Unfiltered, where we dive deep into honest conversations with leaders creating real change in healthcare and beyond. In this session, host Stuart sits down with Dr. Randy Smith — an enrolled member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma who serves as Executive over Health and Human Services for the Kiowa Tribe and CEO of Kiowa Health Services in western Oklahoma. He also holds a PhD in leadership and is a former rural college president.

Mission-Driven Leadership with Jerilyn Church of Great Plains Tribal Health

Welcome to another episode of Impact Unfiltered, where we dive deep into honest conversations with leaders creating real change in healthcare and beyond. In this session, recorded in the “world’s smallest podcast booth” at the Tribal Self-Governance Conference, host Stewart sits down with Jerilyn Church, Chief Executive Officer of the Great Plains Tribal Leaders Health Board (also known as Great Plains Tribal Health), serving 18 tribes across North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa.

President Buu Nygren: Treaty-Scale Healthcare and Navajo Sovereignty

Welcome to another episode of Impact Unfiltered, where we dive deep into honest conversations with leaders creating real change in healthcare and beyond. In this session, recorded at the Self-Governance Conference, host Stuart sits down with Dr.Buu Nygren, President of the Navajo Nation, joined at the conference by Sherylene Yazzie, Director of Health for the Navajo Nation.

Building the Future of Tribal Public Health with Geoff Strommer

Welcome to another episode of Impact Unfiltered, where we dive deep into honest conversations with leaders creating real change in healthcare and beyond. In this session, host Stewart sits down at the Self-Governance Conference with Geoff Strommer — an Indian law attorney with 35 years representing tribes, tribal governments, and tribal organizations on self-governance work spanning legislation, litigation, and negotiation.

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