IngriQue Salt

Program Coordinator

IngriQue Salt, Lók’aad Dine’é, is from Black Mesa and is the Program Coordinator for UA ITEP. IngriQue also works with the UA School of Animal and Comparative Biomedical Sciences and the Miss Native American UA Ambassadors. Raised with a strong focus on traditional stories, prayer, and lifeways in her family, she also accompanied her father in the mobilization of traditional healing practices. These perspectives provide a strong foundation upon which to advocate for and develop the structures necessary to help tribal community members develop, refine and attain their goals.

IngriQue received her Bachelor of Science in Psychology and Cognitive Science, with a minor in American Indian Studies at the UA in 2015. During her time at the UA as a first-generation, she was a Research Assistant studying, cancer pathways and exposures, uranium contaminated water, cognitive behavioral development, and environmental health literacy development.

IngriQue thrives on bringing community members together to identify issues and create community-based solutions. As Tribal Liaison for the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center (SWEHSC) at the UA College of Pharmacy, she focused on environmental health education, literacy, outreach, and community-based projects in tribal communities of Arizona. During her time at SWEHSC, IngriQue's leadership increased Arizona tribal communities served from three of twenty-two tribes in Arizona to nine – a 200% increase. Further, four tribal communities have successfully developed Memorandums of Agreements to ensure tribes are partners in ongoing collaborative research.

ITEP’s value to create Nation-Builders for tribal communities strongly resonates with her. As a Navajo Nation citizen, she understands that to effectively advocate and develop skills in others, she must do so for herself. To this end, IngriQue is developing her skills and knowledge to be an active Nation-Builder by pursuing her higher education and traditional lifeways.