Consulting Partners

Echohawk Lefthand is the new program director Eve’s Fund/ThinkFirst Navajo. Echo has already shown great energy in his work and a warm personality that makes him popular with students and staff. He served in the Marine Corps as an aviation technician and then studied engineering at Arizona State University. As President of the ASU Chapter of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society, he created the Rez Tour, a successful organization that helps Native Americans enter and stay in college. After university, he sold medical equipment and later taught Physical Education on the Navajo Nation. He recently attended the annual meeting of ThinkFirst National Injury Prevention where he was trained as a Chapter Director. Elefthand@gmail.com
   
Darlene Begay is the Co-ordinator of Health Promotion at Four Corners Regional Health Center. She has extensive experience in organizing and coordinating health promotion and prevention programs for Navajo children and young adults. For more than a decade she worked as Coordinator of School Health in the Navajo Health Promotion unit of the Indian Health Service. Darlene has a wide network of colleagues including school teachers and principals, and tribal leaders. all of whom share her interest in injury prevention and health promotion in the Navajo community. She is active in many civic activities and has assisted Eve’s Fund/ThinkFirst Navajo from the beginning with event planning, our VIP (Voices for Injury Prevention) and other programs as they have evolved. She lives near Monument Valley with her husband, three children and other extended family members. Darlene.Begay3@ihs.gov