Our Reality.
Native people are often left out of conversations on issues that impact our communities. In our work, we see the impact of this erasure regularly.
Our Mission
Redbud Resource Group helps improve public health outcomes for Native American communities through education, research, and community partnership.
Our Founders
Madison’s work as a biomedical researcher for the NIH, and as a public health professional working with Native communities, has highlighted the enormous inequities Native communities experience which disrupt their ability to live healthy lives. Madison focuses her work on understanding the roots of these inequities and how Native communities can use their own skills and strategies to overcome them.
As a middle school educator, Taylor saw how Native culture and families were often misunderstood or ignored by the school system. Working with Indian Education programs and with curriculum development organizations has inspired her to integrate Indigenous culture and knowledge into the very fabric of education, working to close existing education gaps.
Taylor Pennewell
Executive Director
Tyme Maidu Nation, Berry Creek Rancheria
Masters in Teaching, University of San Francisco
Madison Esposito
Director of Research
Tyme Maidu Nation, Berry Creek Rancheria
MPH Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
MS1 University of Minnesota Duluth School of Medicine
Our Staff
Rose Hammock
Communications and Community Outreach
Round Valley Indian Tribes, Maidu, Wailaki, and Pomo
rosehammock
@redbudresourcegroup.org
Tiffani Lopez
Media and Research
tiffanilopez
@redbudresourcegroup.org
Trelasa Baratta
Curriculum
Middletown Rancheria band of Pomo Indians of California
tbaratta
@redbudresourcegroup.org