Staff Directory
The National Native American AIDS Prevention Center (NNAAPC) is proud to have a staff of highly qualified professionals who are committed to helping fulfill our mission of addressing the impact of HIV/AIDS in the Native community.
To learn more about a staff member, click on his or her name in the list below:
Robert Foley
Executive Director
720.382.2244 x 303
rfoley@nnaapc.org
Hannabah Blue (Navajo)
Volunteer Capacity Building Assistance Specialist
720.382.2244 x 301
hblue@nnaapc.org
Sandra Janis (Oglala Lakota)
Director of Finance and Operations
720.382.2244 x 307
sjanis@nnaapc.org
Vicki Peterson
Regional Training Coordinator
720.382.2244 x 302
vpeterson@nnaapc.org
Danica Brown (Choctaw)
dbrown@nnaapc.org
Staff Bios
Hannabah Blue (Navajo)
Capacity Building Assistance Specialist
Hannabah Blue came from NY1 News, a 24 hour news station in New York City, where she worked as an Assignment Editor, Researcher, Photojournalist and Field Producer for over a year. She graduated with a double major in Broadcast Journalism and Gender and Sexuality Studies from New York University.
Hannabah has held many positions where she has drawn attention to cultural diversity and the different issues affecting races. She was an Office Assistant for the Center for Multicultural Education and Programs, where she assisted in promoting diversity on campus. She served as the Founder and President of the Native American Club at NYU. She was also a Research Assistant for a Professor at the School of Social Work, where she compiled data on such topics as poverty, homelessness and HIV/AIDS.
Hannabah also interned in the Communications Department of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and at CBS News, where she worked on news inserts for the Logo channel.
Robert Foley
Executive Director
Robert Foley has worked in varying aspects of the prevention field for the past 8 years, including community-based research and assessment, public information campaigns, coalition-building, and intervention planning for efforts around intimate partner violence, methamphetamine abuse, alcohol and other drug abuse issues, and most recently STD/HIV.
Before coming to NNAAPC, Robert was a training specialist for the Denver STD/HIV Prevention Training Center, training on evidence-based interventions, behavioral theory and requisite intervention skills. He also served as a part-time clinician in the local STD clinic and volunteered with local prevention and outreach efforts.
Robert also worked as a research assistant with the Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research at Colorado State University where he examined substance use and domestic violence prevention issues in rural, ethnic communities.
Robert serves on the boards of several local non-profit and advocacy organizations and his areas of interest include gay male culture and identity, Native American prevention efforts, and intervention research, planning and evaluation.
Sandra Janis (Oglala Lakota)
Director of Finance and Operations
Sandra Janis served as the Grants Specialist, Accountant and Program Specialist for the Diabetes Prevention Program for the American Indian and Alaska Native Programs at the University Of Colorado at Denver (UCD). She provided guidance to 65 American Indian Tribes in coordination with the National Indian Health, Indian Health Services (NIH/HIS) contracts for prevention of Diabetes.
Sandra was the Business Manager/Accountant for Lakota Express, an American-Indian, woman-owned business on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. During this time she also served as the Financial Advisor and IRS Liaison on a crisis Management Team for Lakota Fund, a non-profit lending organization that provided loans to on-reservation Indian-run businesses.
For ten years, she was the Accountant at the Native American Rights Fund, an American Indian non-profit law firm that represents Tribes nationally for Human, Civil, Land and Water rights.
Vicki Peterson
Regional Training Coordinator
Vicki Peterson came to NNAAPC from Salish Kootenai College, in Pablo, Montana, where she assisted the Training Coordinator for the Tribal BEAR Project, a project subcontracted with Northwest AIDS Education and Training Center in Seattle.
In 2006, she took over as the primary program director for the CSAT funded HIV/HCV and Substance Abuse Prevention program, working with student peer educators. In 2007, Vicki designed and implemented the Native Women’s Empowerment program, funded by the Office of Women’s Health.
She has been a CDC certified HIV Counseling, Testing, Referral Services trainer since 2002.
