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Providing Strength, Relationships, Resiliency and Healing to Indigenous Communities: Meet Kelly Vallo, MSW
Today, meet Kelly R. Vallo, MSW. Kelly is a member of the Navajo Nation. She is of the Bitterwater Clan born for the Sun People clan. Her maternal clan is The Start of the Red Streak People and her paternal clan is Acoma Pueblo.
Kelly received her Bachelor's & Master’s degrees in Social Work from Arizona State University and is a passionate Indigenous Social Worker with over 14 years of experience working with Tribal communities in Arizona. A Navajo Social Worker and an Indigenous Matriarch with the HONOR (Healing Our Nation Offering Resilience) Collective, she continues to implement Cultural Humility in her career, by practicing Respect, Responsibility, Relationship, and Reciprocity. Currently, Kelly is the Native Youth Coordinator with the Inter-Tribal Council of Arizona.
What community-driven projects have you spearheaded/participated in that you are proud of? What did you take away from these experiences?
I co-founded and co-facilitated a Peer Support Group called Medicine H.E.A.L.S. (Healing Every Ancestral Lineage through Storytelling). It is for Indigenous Professionals by Indigenous Professionals and we discuss challenges and barriers that affect Tribal communities. We provide support and kinship all while building ways to overcome the challenges of agencies/organizations/systems that continue to uphold White Supremacy.
How do you connect with your ancestral roots professionally and personally?
As an Indigenous Social Worker and Matriarch, I uphold the philosophy by Indigenous scholars, Kirkness and Barnhardt of Respect, Responsibility, Relationship, and Reciprocity. Through this philosophy, I am able to build connections with our Tribal communities. What is not understood by most Western Professionals is that our Indigenous community has not fully healed from the historical trauma, which has become embedded into our DNA. Through the philosophy I follow as well as the Gathering of Native Americans (GONA), I work towards helping our Indigenous communities reconnect with themselves. This is the first step in their healing journey.
As a leader, what motivates you to move forward in adversity?
Like most Indigenous professionals or even being Indigenous in itself, it is hard to be taken seriously by Western scholars and professionals but most importantly by our own Indigenous community. The lateral violence and oppression run deep in our roots again, learned behavior by the Colonial Experience, however, it creates a barrier to success when it comes to the goal of returning home to help the People. Indigenous leaders who have held leadership roles for so long, become barriers themselves for fear of change. We call that Survival Leadership.
Where do you find your passion?
I find my passion through our Indigenous Youth and their advocacy. They are paving the way in showing the generations before us that their Ancestor's Trauma will not become their Trauma. That is powerful and through their voices, society is listening. Educational costs are still a barrier, despite tuition being offered free for Indigenous persons, this only applies to undergraduate programs and off of income, which can still be a barrier for some to attend. These barriers are my motivation to keep advocating for our Indigenous communities.
What do you see yourself doing in the future?
I see myself continuing to do the work that I am doing and providing a career path for our Indigenous youth. It is time for our People to have their space. We have shared enough space with non-Natives, always educating, always sharing. It is time we create our own space for just our People. When my co-founders and I created Medicine H.E.A.L.S., we created that space with this goal in mind. In the next five or ten years, I would like to see more of our Indigenous Youth in leadership roles, leading the way to provide and offer true Holistic Healing in whatever systems they are in. I am not who I am without my community. In the words of Sutton King, I am not self-made, I am community-made. Each of our successes are our successes, that is how kinship and relations work. We need more lateral love and kindness, than violence and oppression.
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View the Sessions from our United Nations Event: Transforming Financial Boundaries |
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Carla Harris, Vice Chairman, Morgan Stanley and James Rhee, Founder/Owner, red helicopter
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Michael Maquet-Diafouka, Managing Director, Global Family and Institutional Wealth, UBS, Chris Marsh, Managing Director, Private Wealth Advisor, UBS,Janet C. Salazar, Chairman & President, Foundation for the Support of the United Nations
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Tyler Naha, Student, Denver East High School, Dr. Mary Papazian, Exec. VP, Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges, Dr. Philomenta Mantella, President, Grand Valley State University, Dr. Yustina Saleh, Managing Director, Innovation Solutions, The Burning Glass Institute, Alfonzo Alexander, Chief Ethics & Diversity Officer, National Association of State Boards of Accountancy
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Dr. D'Andre Weaver, Chief Digital Equity Officer, Digital Promise, Michael Woods, President, Woods Capital, the Honorable Dr. Kimberly McClain, Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department HUD, Preston James, II, Co-Founder and CEO, Divinc, Gaby Rowe, Founding Principal, Grow Associates
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Dr. Craig Jonas, Founder and CEO, CoPeace, Victoria Vasques, Owner & Chairwoman, Tribal Tech LLC, Sachin Chaudhry, Founder and CEO, TrustCircle and BringChange Foundation, Kyle Hybl, President & CEO, El Pomar Foundation, Beth Cobert, Acting President, Markle Foundation
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Dr. Denise Lujan, Director, Entering Student Experience, University of Texas at El Paso, Javaune Adams-Gaston, President, Norfolk State University, Dr. David Miyashiro, Superintendent, Cajon Valley Union School District, Gina Fratarcangeli, Managing Director, Google, Shital C. Shah, Sr. Advisor, Strategic Partnerships, Office of the Secretary, U.S. Dept. of Education
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Sam Lalanne, Managing Director, Morgan Stanley, Global Head of Diversity & Inclusion |
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Highlights from the 2023 GlobalMindED Annual Conference this past June:
Read What Speakers and Attendees said about the GlobalMindED 2023 annual conference:
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PBS12 Denver filmed and live-streamed the GlobalMindED Inclusive Leader Awards on June 7th as well as our main stage plenaries and presentations on June 8th. You can find them all individually on the GlobalMindED YouTube channel.
Here are links to the 2023 GlobalMindED Inclusive Leader Award Winners' introductions and acceptance remarks:
Miriam Calderon, Chief Policy Officer, ZERO TO THREE: Inclusive Leader - Early Childhood Education
Dr. David Miyashiro, Superintendent, Cajon Valley Union School District, Inclusive Leader - K-12 Education
Carrie Billy, CEO, American Indian Higher Education Consortium: Inclusive Leader - Higher Education
Afua Bruce, Founder & Principal, ANB Advisory Group: Inclusive Leader - Government
Dr. Elena Rios, President & CEO, National Hispanic Medical Association: Inclusive Leader - Health & Wellness
Hassan Salem, Head of Commercial Banking, US Bank: Inclusive Leader - Banking & Finance
Greg Robinson, James Webb Space Telescope Project Director NASA (ret): Inclusive Leader - Space & Aerospace
Mary Nichols, Professor, UCLA Institute of the Environment, Inclusive Leader - Energy & Sustainability
Michael Campbell, General Manager, Education Division, Intel: Inclusive Leader - Technology
Diego Mariscal, CEO & Chief Disabled Person, 2Gether-International: Inclusive Leader - Entrepreneurship
Mario Carrera, President & CEO, CLLARO: Inclusive Leader - Media & Arts
Nasruddin Rupani, Chairman, Ibn Sina Foundation: Inclusive Leader - Foundations & Funders
Rosanna Durruthy, VP, Global Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, LinkedIn: Inclusive Leader -Global Impact
Kimberly Bryant, Founder & CEO, Black Innovation Lab; Black Girls Code: Inclusive Leader - Non-Profit
Click below to see Insights from GlobalMindED Leaders:
View the Main-stage Presentations:
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Thank you to all of the Sponsors, Speakers, Students, and Attendees at GlobalMindED 2023
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