Jessica Saniguq Ullrich, MSW, PhD, is an Inupiaq scholar, a Tribal citizen of Nome Eskimo Community, a descendant of the Native Village of Wales, and proud mother of 2 teenage daughters. Jessica worked in the Alaska child welfare system in various positions before obtaining her PhD in Social Welfare at the University of Washington. Jessica’s passion and scholarship has focused on an Indigenous Connectedness Framework for child and collective wellbeing. As an Assistant Professor at Washington State University in the Institute for Research and Education to Advance Community Health (IREACH) program, she focuses on the promotion of connectedness, wellbeing, relational healing, and social/environmental justice.
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Jessica Saniguq Ullrich, M.S.W., Ph.D.
