Gina Gradias is the Affordable Advocacy Intern at CCRH. Gina's internship year will focus on Tribal HHAP, AHSC, RCDI, and assisting with CCRH's state and federal advocacy pushes. Gina comes to CCRH with 10+ years of experience working in education, public health, and workforce development programs advocating and supporting Indigenous peoples, historically underrepresented students, and unaccompanied homeless youth, in accessing education and meaningful employment.

 

Gina has worked in several culturally responsive place-based Native education programs in the states of Washington, Alaska, and California. She is a proud first-generation college student with a BA degree in Anthropology from the University of Washington-Seattle, and is currently a graduate student at UC Davis in the MS program in Community Development. Gina is Barbareno Chumash, from the villages of Syuxtun, Kaswaa, and Mikiw, which is now called Santa Barbara and Goleta, CA. Her graduate research focuses on her tribal community and the impact of displacement and housing on both the community and its culture.