New Mexico supporters of the Friends Committee on National Legislation have a special opportunity to meet Lacina Onco, Congressional Advocate on Native American Policy, on the weekend of March 10-11.
Details
Date: Saturday, March 10
Location: Albuquerque Center for Peace and Justice, 202 Harvard SE, Albuquerque
Time: 4pm
Date: Sunday, March 11
Location: Santa Fe Friends Meeting, 630 Canyon Rd, Santa Fe
Time: 1pm
Description
Lacina manages FCNL’s lobbying on legislation that affects Native communities, building connections between tribes, tribal organizations, and non-Indian allies, with a particular focus on faith groups’ advocacy to ensure that tribal needs are addressed. Recent work has included the Special Diabetes Program for Indians, safety for Native American women through Savanna’s Act (S. 1942), and supporting the SURVIVE Act, which provides tribes funding for victim assistance programs.
Lacina comes to Washington, DC from Boston, where she managed the Metro Boston Tobacco-Free Community Partnership and served as the site manager for a nonprofit Indian health center serving the Boston urban Indian community. Lacina is a Bill Gates Millennium Scholar and holds a Master of Social Work degree from Boston College Graduate School of Social Work and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and certificate in Native American studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is a proud member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation of New York and the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma.
