Principal Investigators
WEAVE NM’s Principal Investigators support the project by leveraging the expertise of a robust team of Community-based Participatory Researchers across our three collaborating research centers at UNM: Transdisciplinary Research, Equity and Engagement Center (TREE Center); Center for Participatory Research (CPR); and, Center for Native American Health (CNAH) and First Nations Community Healthsource.
Our four principal investigators are:
Lisa Cacari Stone, Ph.D., M.S., M.A.
Lisa Cacari Stone, PhD, is a Professor of Health Policy with the College of Population Health and founding Executive Director of the Transdisciplinary Research, Equity & Engagement Center. Her research interests span across a range of social determinants of population health.
Tassy Parker, PhD, RN
Tassy Parker, PhD, RN, is a medical sociologist and tenured professor of Family and Community Medicine and professor in the Colleges of Nursing and Population Health, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. Dr. Parker is an enrolled member and elder of the Seneca Nation and belongs to the Beaver Clan.
Linda Son-Stone, PhD, MPH
Linda Stone has served as the CEO of First Nations Community HealthSource for the past 13 years. She has a doctorate degree in Psychology from Harvard University and an MPH from Yale School of Public Health. She is committed and passionate about working with un- and underserved community members.
Nina Wallerstein, DrPH, MPH
Nina Wallerstein, DrPH, MPH, is a Professor of Public Health at UNM’s College of Population Health and Director of the UNM Center for Participatory Research. Nina has been developing community based participatory research and empowerment/ Freirian interventions for over thirty years.