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Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Emma R. Medicine White Crow, Vice Chair

Representing Consumers
Date Appointed: August 2006

Emma Medicine White Crow is the Director of SpiritWalk Health Foundation in Seattle. Their mission is to advocate for and increase efforts to positively impact individual, familial, and community health for Urban Indians. They work to implement prevention strategies and activities that will support culturally and linguistically appropriate healthcare services which will reduce the health disparities for Urban Indian families and community.

Emma previously worked as the Community Outreach Manager for the Susan G. Komen Foundation. She developed and implemented strategies to raise breast cancer awareness and bring breast health services to medically underserved women in the Puget Sound region. She also has 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.

She has served as Outreach Manager, Leader Engagement for the Washington Health Foundation (WHF), in Seattle where she focused on Improving Health for the People of Washington and the goal of making Washington State the Healthiest State in the Nation. Also while at WHF, she was the Program Manager for Tribal Health in Rural Washington.

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 Alliance 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 member for the Alliance for Healthy Communities of Color. 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 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 and reside in Seattle, Washington.