Council & Team

HTL Visionary Council

The Haa Tóoch Lichéesh Visionary Council is a circle of advisors coming from diverse cultural and professional backgrounds to ensure decisions on behalf of the coalition are made through an equitable lens. The goal of this council is to bring together leaders in our community to create opportunities where members can thrive, grow resilient communities, and build sustainable movements. Together, we move forward embracing our whole selves to lead with love.

Thank you to beloved Elders Kaatssaawaa Della Cheney and Kaaxkwhei Leona Santiago, as well as co-founder and mentor Dáxkílatch Kolene James for your ongoing support and wisdom, and Gunalchéesh, Háw’aa, Quyana, Chin’an, Thank You to the 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

Chooshdatláa Nicole Anderson

HTL Team

Ati Koon Ya Nagoodi Nasiah (she/her)

Violence Prevention & Outreach Director

Breanna Stewart (she/her)

Violence Prevention Youth & Education Coordinator

David A Dayeen Yan Haani Abad (he/they)

Violence Prevention Youth & Education Coordinator

S’eiltin Jamiann Hasselquist (she/her)

SSP Regional Healing Catalyst

Natalie Watson (she/her)

Violence Prevention Manager, Girls on the Run & I Toowú Klatseen

Renee Tl'aagunk Culp (she/her)

Prevention Manager

Thomasina Andersen (they/them)

Communications Coordinator

Full Bio Coming Soon!

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.

Breanna Stewart holds bachelors’ degrees in Family, Youth, and Community Sciences and Criminology and Law, and has almost ten years of experience in the education and social services fields. She is excited to be part of a team helping to promote community awareness and expand trauma-informed advocacy and prevention efforts. She believes it is paramount to treat others with compassion, sincerity, and respect, and put effort into building relationships with collaborative partners. Breanna has two children, a dog, and is a licensed foster parent. She loves to dance and spend as much time outdoors as possible.

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.

As a young person, Natalie Watson was one of the last people you might expect to represent Girls on the Run! She was known to gloomily stalk through cemeteries listening to Requiem death masses, meditating on meaninglessness. Oblivious to her existential suffering, her family and friends offered her teen girl magazines and advice on how to better resemble cheerleaders. After a series of world-shaking experiences, including head injury, entheogenic revelations, seven years in a Zen temple, and becoming a mother, Natalie lost most of her self-centered angst and became able to unabashedly devote her life to service and activism. After several years in Chicagoland creating safer, livelier streets, she moved back home to Juneau to be close to her mom, roam the rainforest and breathe clean air. She is thrilled to support Girls on the Run of Greater Alaska, and help empower girls throughout the state to boldly pursue their own dreams.

Born and raised in Cordova, Alaska, Thomasina is claimed by both Alutiiq (Chugach Sugpiaq) and Lingít peoples (Kwáashk’i Kwáań on Dad’s side.) They first moved to Lingít Aaní a.k.a. Juneau, AK in 2000 to attend UAS, eventually obtaining a Bachelor’s Degree in English. After trying to be a technical writer, office manager, and other things that turned out to be inauthentic paths for them, they used the opportunity of society’s collective mental breakdown in 2020 to figure out a few things. The first was they were super-duper queer, and the second was they wanted to work as a creative for the foreseeable future. They earned a second Bachelor’s in Graphic Design from Southern New Hampshire University Online in early 2022, began working for AWARE/Haa Tóoch Lichéesh in April, and haven’t really looked back. They live with their spouse and 3 cats, and enjoy beadwork, drawing, reading and otherwise being a nerd.