Juanita Espinosa

Juanita Espinosa, BA (Spirit Lake Nation), is a Community Program Specialist for the Northern Range Satellite Center. She assists Native-CHART researchers with community outreach. Ms. Espinosa has decades of experience as a community organizer working with health centers and tribes in Minnesota. She currently works with Dr. Tiffany Beckman at the University of Minnesota on study of obesity entitled “Neural Correlates of Food Reward in American Indian Women.” She has also worked to educate the public about Native art and to build a support system for Native artists in Minnesota. She has served on the boards of numerous community and arts-related organizations.