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Josie Raphaelito is the Program Coordinator for the Center for Native American Youth at The Aspen Institute. Josie most recently graduated with a Master's Degree in Public Health from The George Washington University.
Her Master's thesis focused on a policy initiative, aimed to increase access to mental health services through workforce development strategies, for the Indian Health Service. Prior to graduate school, she studied Athletic Training at the University of New England in Maine. While living in DC Josie has interned at both the National Congress of American Indians and the National Indian Health Board. Other experience includes time at the Albuquerque Area Southwest Tribal Epidemiology Center and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Josie grew up on the Ramah Navajo Reservation in New Mexico and is an enrolled member of the Navajo Nation.
Suicide prevention in Indian Country is an area of true passion for Josie.
