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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Emma R. Medicine White Crow, Vice Chair

Representing Consumers
Date Appointed: August 2006

Emma Medicine White Crow is the Community Outreach Coordinator for the Komen Foundation. In this role, Emma develops and implements strategies that raise breast cancer awareness and bring breast health services to medically underserved women. Emma previously worked with Kauffman and Associates (KAI) in Spokane as a Project Manager with the Casey Family Foundation Indian Child Welfare Project.  Emma's previous position at KAI was as the Project Manager for the statewide effort with the National Indian Council on Aging Washington State Demonstration Project. Emma worked with fifteen reservation Tribal participants and an Urban Indian effort in Seattle. This effort also worked closely with the WA State Area Agency's on Aging, Veterans Administration, Social Security Administration, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, WA State's Statewide Health Insurance Program and other Elder care programs. She also shared lessons learned from this Demonstration Project with the eighteen Regional Indian Health Boards across the Nation including Alaska.

Emma served as Outreach Manager, Leader Engagement for the Washington Health Foundation, (WHF), in Seattle where she focused on building the ‘Health Equity 20/20’ program as the next step in making significant and long term gains in pursuit of the Foundation’s mission of “Improving Health for the People of Washington” and the goal of making Washington State the Healthiest State in the Nation.

Also at WHF she served as the Program Manager for Tribal Health in Rural Washington. She was able to focus on ensuring better access to health care for tribal members and communities. A part of this work was to ensure that the Washington Health Foundation and other partner Foundations worked in a culturally competent, culturally respectful manner in its relationship with American Indians and Alaskan Natives. Emma also served as the Foundation’s Outreach Team Leader for the kids.health.2001 Campaign in the final two years of a four-year campaign dedicated to helping to ensure Medicaid Outreach and Enrollment for the children of Washington State. She worked closely with the American Indian Health Commission, Washington State Hospital Association, various Federal, State and County programs in cultural competency and health access.

Emma is a member of the Race and Equity Core Group at the National Network of Grantmakers. She has worked with the People of Color in Philanthropy Affinity group, Grantmakers of Color, National Network of Grantmakers People of Color Caucus, Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians, Peoples Institute to Undo Racism Taskforce for Health Equity the Washington State Association for Healthy Communities of Color, Western States Center and multiple Philanthropic Organizations

Emma served on the Loma Linda Medical University American Indian Advisory Board, as well as a Board member for the Alliance for Multicultural Health, Tacoma. She also served on the Native directed Northwest Regional Potlatch Fund Foundation Founding Board as Secretary and was a trainer for the Technical Assistance Program’s grant writing workshops on Tribal Reservations. She also served as an advisor for the National Indian Council on Aging for the Seattle Pilot Project with Outreach and Enrollment to Benefits and an advisor on Inclusion for Philanthropy Northwest.

Emma also spent many years working in education.  She mentors/volunteers with Native high school students.  She and her partner have three children, ages nineteen to twenty-four and reside in Seattle, Washington.