Board & Team

Haa Tóoch Lichéesh is a 501c3 nonprofit governed by a board of directors. We have an overarching commitment for all our work to reflect the practice of getting callused hands and/or offering healing salve to our beloved partners based on both positionality and need, we choose to lead with love in all we do. As Valarie Davidson has taught us “when you lead with love, you are never alone”. We acknowledge that healing and transformation are hard work. We are dedicated to leaning into our growing edge to support this personal and community wide transformation effort.

Thank you to beloved Elders Kaatssaawaa Della Cheney and the late Kaaxkwhei Leona Santiago, as well as co-founder and mentor Dáxkílatch Kolene James for your ongoing support and wisdom.

For many years, Haa Tóoch Lichéesh was led by a Visionary Council. Gunalchéesh, Háw’aa, Quyana, Chin’an, Thank You to all who served on our Visionary Council: T’óok’ Xoo Háni Alicia Maryott, See.ei Cecelia Westman, Corlé LaForce, Kaatssaawaa Della Cheney, Dáxkílatch Kolene James, Meryl Connelly-Chew, Kaasei Naomi Michalsen, and Chooshdatláa Nicole Anderson.

HTL Board

Dáxkílatch Kolene James

Board President, HTL Coalition Co-Founder

Kaatssaawaa Della Cheney

Guiding Elder

T’óok’ Xoo Háni Alicia Maryott

Secretary

HTL Team

Ati Koon Ya Nagoodi Nasiah (she/her)

Executive Director, HTL Coalition Co-Founder

David A Dayeen Yan Haani Abad (he/they)

HTL Coalition Manager

S’eiltin Jamiann Hasselquist (she/her)

SSP Regional Healing Catalyst

Renee Tl'aagunk Culp (she/her)

Matriarch Manager

Ḵaa Yahaayí Shkalneegi (he/they)

Storyteller

Full Bio Coming Soon!

Renee Tl’aagunk Culp, a distinguished Community-Clinical Psychologist, brings a wealth of experience with over 30 years in the social services field. Her journey has been a multifaceted one, ranging from prevention services to mental health clinical care, showcasing a comprehensive understanding of the sector. Renee has forged a path marked by success, particularly in program development and implementation. Her professional focus centers on trauma-informed care and culturally-focused healing, areas where she not only possesses expertise but also a deep-seated passion. Renee is dedicated to crafting healing environments that empower individuals, families, and systems to break free from harmful cycles. Beyond her professional pursuits, she carries a personal commitment to addressing and healing her own generational trauma.

Koon Ya Nagoodi Ati Nasiah was brought in by the Gaanax.adi as Raven Starfish from the House that Drifted Ashore. Her ancestors are Ashkenazi Jewish and Northwestern European (Norse and Celtic) and is honored to be a guest on the unceded territory of the Áakʼw Ḵwáan and neighboring Takuu Ḵwáan for the past seventeen years. She has worked at the crossroads of Racial and Gender Violence Prevention for the past twenty years, and has been deeply committed to healing herself and participating in community transformation around issues and impacts of colonization, patriarchy, and inequity. Ati strives to live aligned with the seasonal calendar as a harvester and healer, dedicated to reckoning with and reimagining our world. She honors our grief as the soil we stand upon, and envisions co-creating our greatest dreams and transforming that into readiness for change. She describes herself as a dedicated community member and organizer, mother, sister, auntie, and friend.

David Abad is Ilokano (Filipino), queer, and first-generation born and raised on Lingít Aaní, specifically the lands of the Áakʼw Ḵwáan and T’aaḵu Ḵwáan otherwise known as Juneau, AK. He was also adopted by the Gaanax.adi (Raven Starfish) of the Taant’a Ḵwáan from the Yanwulihashi Hít (Drifted Ashore House). Since 2019, he has worked as AWARE’s Violence Prevention Coordinator to build a collective movement towards healing and thriving communities. While in this position, he has the opportunity to engage community members through self-awareness & advocacy efforts, collaborate with leaders in the community to create spaces for LGBTQIA+ youth, and help organize Haa Tóoch Lichéesh’s Visionary Council to strategize and implement the coalition’s vision for an equitable future.

S’eiltin Jamiann Hasselquist is Tlingit, Deisheetaan (Raven/Beaver/Dragonfly) of the Ravens Bones House (Yéil S’aagi Hit) of Angoon, born and raised on the ancestral homelands of the Aakw Kwaan in Juneau, Alaska. She is the daughter of Lillian and James Parduhn of Richland Center, Wisconsin. She is the granddaughter of Mabel Howard and Billy Pete Johnson (Kagwaantaan/Eagles Nest House), and is the mother of two sons, and grandmother to two grandsons. She currently serves as the President of the Alaska Native Sisterhood (ANS) Camp 2, the oldest known anti-discrimination organization worldwide. Jamiann’s involvement extends further as she actively participates in the Juneau Tlingit & Haida Community Council and offers consultation services to both the Indians of All Tribes California and the Quaker Friends of Alaska through her business Alaska Indigenous Consulting, focusing on navigating and cultivating healthy healing relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous organizations.

Since 2012, Jamiann has embarked on a deliberate intergenerational personal healing journey. Through this transformative process, she has gained invaluable lived experience and dedicated six years to comprehending the genocide experienced by her people. Moreover, she has actively worked towards breaking generational cycles and dismantling colonial ways of thinking.

Ḵaa Yahaayí Shkalneegi is Kiks.ádi of the X’aaka Hít and a grandchild of the Ch’áak’ Kúdi Hít Kaagwaantaan. He grew up in Sitka, learning from his mother Clarice Johnson, a powerful activist, berry picker, and adventurer. He is the brother of Kushxeet (Sienna Reid), and a grandchild of the late Watla.aan Moses Sr. and Amy Johnson.