Instructors
Bonnie Clairmont
Victim Advocacy Specialist, Tribal Law and Policy Institute (TLPI)
Bonnie Clairmont serves from TLPI's Minnesota office. Prior to her employment with TLPI, she was the Outreach/Client Services Coordinator for Sexual Offense Services of Ramsey County, a rape crisis center. While employed there, Bonnie provided leadership in the development of Sexual Assault Response Teams and Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner programs and offered guidance with multidisciplinary sexual assault protocol development. She has worked more than twenty-five years advocating for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. She has dedicated much of her work to providing and improving services for victim/survivors of sexual assault, battering, and child sexual abuse, particularly those from American Indian communities. For four years she coordinated the Strengthening the Circle of Trust Conference, a conference focusing on sexual assault and exploitation perpetrated by American Indian spiritual leaders/medicine men. Bonnie co-edited a recently published book "Sharing Our Storie
Bonnie Clairmont
Victim Advocacy Specialist, Tribal Law and Policy Institute (TLPI)
Bonnie Clairmont serves from TLPI's Minnesota office. Prior to her employment with TLPI, she was the Outreach/Client Services Coordinator for Sexual Offense Services of Ramsey County, a rape crisis center. While employed there, Bonnie provided leadership in the development of Sexual Assault Response Teams and Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner programs and offered guidance with multidisciplinary sexual assault protocol development. She has worked more than twenty-five years advocating for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. She has dedicated much of her work to providing and improving services for victim/survivors of sexual assault, battering, and child sexual abuse, particularly those from American Indian communities. For four years she coordinated the Strengthening the Circle of Trust Conference, a conference focusing on sexual assault and exploitation perpetrated by American Indian spiritual leaders/medicine men. Bonnie co-edited a recently published book "Sharing Our Storie
Eric Nation
Director of Training and Development, National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children
Lieutenant (retired) Eric Nation began his career in law enforcement in 1994 and has held numerous positions. From 1996-2002, Nation was assigned to an undercover narcotics unit and from 2007-2012 was assigned as the Commander of the M.I.N.E. Taskforce – Eastside.
Nation is a founding member of the Jasper County Drug Endangered Children Alliance, where he worked to build collaboration across multiple disciplines and worked to create a series of DEC response protocols; he is also a member of the Iowa Alliance for Drug Endangered Children Steering Committee and was a member of the National DEC Criminal Justice Working Group.
Nation has trained thousands of professionals across Iowa, the United States, and internationally. He has participated in the United States Attorney General’s Defending Childhood Initiative, Working Group Meeting on Law Enforcement and Children’s Exposure to Violence in Washington D.C.
Eric Nation
Director of Training and Development, National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children
Lieutenant (retired) Eric Nation began his career in law enforcement in 1994 and has held numerous positions. From 1996-2002, Nation was assigned to an undercover narcotics unit and from 2007-2012 was assigned as the Commander of the M.I.N.E. Taskforce – Eastside.
Nation is a founding member of the Jasper County Drug Endangered Children Alliance, where he worked to build collaboration across multiple disciplines and worked to create a series of DEC response protocols; he is also a member of the Iowa Alliance for Drug Endangered Children Steering Committee and was a member of the National DEC Criminal Justice Working Group.
Nation has trained thousands of professionals across Iowa, the United States, and internationally. He has participated in the United States Attorney General’s Defending Childhood Initiative, Working Group Meeting on Law Enforcement and Children’s Exposure to Violence in Washington D.C.
Jesse Orozco
Director of Public Safety (retired), Pueblo of Laguna Tribe
Jesse Orozco has over 30 years of extensive public safety experience, both operationally and administratively. He is a retired Major from the New Mexico State Police where he served 23 years. While with the state police, he was assigned to the Uniform Bureau, Criminal and Narcotic Investigations Divisions. His career culminated as a major in headquarters where he oversaw six uniform districts and served on the Governors Mexico Security Worktable as the liaison to the New Mexico - Sonora/Chihuahua Commissions; the Republic of Mexico Consulates Office; the Administrative Offices of the Courts Translation Program; and the New Mexico Rail Runner. Upon retirement from the New Mexico State Police, Jesse served as Deputy Director for the New Mexico Tech Border Security Program.
Jesse Orozco
Director of Public Safety (retired), Pueblo of Laguna Tribe
Jesse Orozco has over 30 years of extensive public safety experience, both operationally and administratively. He is a retired Major from the New Mexico State Police where he served 23 years. While with the state police, he was assigned to the Uniform Bureau, Criminal and Narcotic Investigations Divisions. His career culminated as a major in headquarters where he oversaw six uniform districts and served on the Governors Mexico Security Worktable as the liaison to the New Mexico - Sonora/Chihuahua Commissions; the Republic of Mexico Consulates Office; the Administrative Offices of the Courts Translation Program; and the New Mexico Rail Runner. Upon retirement from the New Mexico State Police, Jesse served as Deputy Director for the New Mexico Tech Border Security Program.
Kevin Mariano
Project Coordinator, NCJTC
Prior to joining NCJTC, he served as the Chief of Police with the Pueblo of Isleta Police Department. He has over seventeen years of law enforcement experience capitalizing on supervisory experience, operational management, staff development, administrative and finance management, motivational leadership and decision making. He served as the liaison between the Pueblo of Isleta, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and surrounding law enforcement agencies to build relationships and matters related to community safety. He has worked closely with diverse teams to successfully receive federal grant funding, implement Memorandum of Agreements, develop policy and procedures, and for implementing and managing the Sex Offender Registry Program.
Kevin Mariano
Project Coordinator, NCJTC
Prior to joining NCJTC, he served as the Chief of Police with the Pueblo of Isleta Police Department. He has over seventeen years of law enforcement experience capitalizing on supervisory experience, operational management, staff development, administrative and finance management, motivational leadership and decision making. He served as the liaison between the Pueblo of Isleta, Bureau of Indian Affairs, and surrounding law enforcement agencies to build relationships and matters related to community safety. He has worked closely with diverse teams to successfully receive federal grant funding, implement Memorandum of Agreements, develop policy and procedures, and for implementing and managing the Sex Offender Registry Program.
Marcia Good
Executive Director, Presidential Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indian and Alaska Natives
Marcia Good
Executive Director, Presidential Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indian and Alaska Natives
Michele Stewart
FBI Victim Specialist, Salt Lake City Division (Crow & Northern Cheyenne Reservation)
Michele Stewart
FBI Victim Specialist, Salt Lake City Division (Crow & Northern Cheyenne Reservation)
Stacee Read
Director of DEC Network Development, National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children
Stacee Read has spent nearly 20 years working in the child welfare field, gaining insight and experience on a variety of key child welfare issues. Before working for National DEC, Stacee’s previous positions included the Associate Ombudsman position with the Office of Colorado’s Child Protection Ombudsman and the Child Protection Safety Specialist for the Colorado Department of Human Services and Child Abuse and Neglect Investigator. Stacee participated on the Fatality Review Team and was a key member of the Substance Exposed Newborns Steering Committee, the Rural Law Enforcement Meth Initiative, the CDHS Child Fatality Review Team, and the CDHS Prone Restraint Workgroup.
Stacee Read
Director of DEC Network Development, National Alliance for Drug Endangered Children
Stacee Read has spent nearly 20 years working in the child welfare field, gaining insight and experience on a variety of key child welfare issues. Before working for National DEC, Stacee’s previous positions included the Associate Ombudsman position with the Office of Colorado’s Child Protection Ombudsman and the Child Protection Safety Specialist for the Colorado Department of Human Services and Child Abuse and Neglect Investigator. Stacee participated on the Fatality Review Team and was a key member of the Substance Exposed Newborns Steering Committee, the Rural Law Enforcement Meth Initiative, the CDHS Child Fatality Review Team, and the CDHS Prone Restraint Workgroup.
Tyesha Wood
Program Coordinator, AMBER Alert in Indian Country, National Criminal Justice Training Center
Tyesha is a former Police Detective with 17 years of law enforcement experience with tribal nations in Arizona. A majority of her police career was comprised of work in criminal investigations, with more than 15 years as a detective working in the areas of sex crimes and crimes against children. Tyesha has experience in working with multi-disciplinary teams in tribal family advocacy centers to ensure the safety and protection of children. She also served for two years as an Executive Protection Officer for the Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice-President.
Tyesha Wood
Program Coordinator, AMBER Alert in Indian Country, National Criminal Justice Training Center
Tyesha is a former Police Detective with 17 years of law enforcement experience with tribal nations in Arizona. A majority of her police career was comprised of work in criminal investigations, with more than 15 years as a detective working in the areas of sex crimes and crimes against children. Tyesha has experience in working with multi-disciplinary teams in tribal family advocacy centers to ensure the safety and protection of children. She also served for two years as an Executive Protection Officer for the Navajo Nation Office of the President and Vice-President.
Valaura Imus-Nahsonhoya
Program Coordinator | National Criminal Justice Training Center of Fox Valley Technical College
Valaura Imus-Nahsonhoya leads program efforts funded by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. She has worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Justice Services Victim Assistance Program as a supervisory victim specialist and for the Department of the Interior (DOI), Office of Law Enforcement and Security. She is the first victim specialist to work with the DOI Office of Law Enforcement and Security and crime victims served by the Bureau of Indian Affairs District III. Previously, she worked for the Hopi Tribe in Arizona as the program director of the Hopi Domestic Violence Program and served as a legal advocate for the Office of the Hopi Tribal Prosecutor.
Valaura Imus-Nahsonhoya
Program Coordinator | National Criminal Justice Training Center of Fox Valley Technical College
Valaura Imus-Nahsonhoya leads program efforts funded by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. She has worked for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Office of Justice Services Victim Assistance Program as a supervisory victim specialist and for the Department of the Interior (DOI), Office of Law Enforcement and Security. She is the first victim specialist to work with the DOI Office of Law Enforcement and Security and crime victims served by the Bureau of Indian Affairs District III. Previously, she worked for the Hopi Tribe in Arizona as the program director of the Hopi Domestic Violence Program and served as a legal advocate for the Office of the Hopi Tribal Prosecutor.