Founder & Executive Director
Fort Defiance Soccer Club
Fort Defiance, Az
A nonprofit organization dedicated to helping Navajo Nation youth combat childhood obesity and its adverse long-term health impacts through soccer, education as well as health and wellness measures. Our goal is to connect and collaborate with our community through soccer and collectively discuss how to overcome (through traditional and non-traditional means) a public health epidemic that has engulfed not only Native American communities but the nation as a whole.• Connected with the community through soccer to collectively discuss how to overcome a public health epidemic, through traditional and non-traditional means.• Established critical public-private partnerships with local hospitals, government agencies, and nonprofits, raising over $56,000 in startup funding during the first year of operations.• Managed multiple organizational start-up tasks, including strategy, fundraising, legal, administrative, marketing, staff development, and public health education.