Jolene Catron Email & Phone Number

Ms. Catron serves as a volunteer coordinator with the IWN, a support network for tribally focused water resource and water protection efforts across the Americas. This start-up grassroots effort, led by tribal people, will eventually include the development of a training center focusing on tribal water needs, a resource bank that matches water professionals to tribal communities with critical technical and scientific needs, and a clearinghouse of tribal-specific river resource information, to include federal, state, local, and tribal legislation and policies.

Albuquerque, New Mexico

www.apcg.org

Fort Washakie, Wy

Air Quality Program Coordinator for the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho Tribes of the Wind River Reservation in west-central Wyoming. Oversee the daily operations of a multi-faceted tribal air quality program. Responsibilities include program development, grant writing, coordination with technical consultant, ensure operability of one ambient air monitoring station that monitors H2S, SO2, CO, NOx O3 and meteorological conditions; ensure data quality in accordance with an approved SOP and QAPP, develop program for reviewing New Source Review and Title V permits, develop source evaluation and emissions inventory, provide outreach and public education programs.

Wind River Watershed, West-Central Wy

The WRA was founded in 2001, and is a cross-cultural non-profit organization committed to restoring the health of the Wind River watershed by educating and empowering residents and advocating for policies that benefit the watershed. The current focus of WRA is to strengthen its educational focus to the youth in the watershed and to involve tribal elders in all the programs. WRA has hosted the Honoring Our Resources Youth Leadership camp for the past 6 years, in which young people learn about leadership skills, traditional values of water and the science of watershed management. As executive director Ms. Catron served as the program development specialist, grant writer, communications guru, program manager, staff supervisor, budget analyst, procurement specialist, administrative support staff, and head cook.

Ms. Catron served two 2-year terms as an advisor to the US EPA Administrator on issues of environmental justice, where she represented the national perspective of indigenous communities and grassroots organizations. She served on NEJAC workgroups that provided in-depth advice to the EPA Administrator on strengthening the participation of business and industry in environmental justice, green business and sustainability; nationally consistent environmental justice screening approaches; EPA permitting process; and future environmental justice initiatives and planning through the EJ Plan 2014. She served as vice-chair of the Indigenous Peoples Working Group, a subcommittee of the NEJAC.

Ms. Catron was responsible for generation/production of technical reports, memoranda, letters, proposals, marketing materials, brochures and newsletters on both PC and Macintosh platforms. She served as the focal point for the generation of multimillion-dollar proposals—providing schedule coordination, editing, word processing and graphics support. Ms. Catron served as editor for a quarterly, four-color environmental services magazine, Insights. She solicited articles, edited, designed the layout, and oversaw the final production and distribution to over 3,200 addresses worldwide.

Wind River Reservation, Wy

Ms. Catron’s primary task was to build a database of federal reserved Indian water rights adjudicated in the Big Horn decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. This involved close-up map work, attention to detail, a thorough knowledge of Indian water rights, ability to create maps using ArcView software. In addition, she produced a quarterly newsletter that detailed the complicated issues of water management on the Wind River Indian Reservation.

Air Quality, Certificates

EPA Method 9 Visual Opacity certified; Institute for Tribal Environmental Professional's Air Pollution Technology, Reviewing New Source.

Miscellaneous

40-Hour Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER); FEMA IS-100.B: Introduction to Incident Command System; FEMA.

Associate Of Arts (Aa), Native American Studies