Angelica (Jelly) Firmin

Jelly Firmin smiling and holding wooden mask on Styrofoam covered table
Research Assistant

Education

Psychology Student

Biography

Jelly Firmin is Koyukon and Gwich’in Athabascan. She is from Tanana and Fort Yukon Alaska. Previously, Jelly worked as a research assistant on projects concerning internalized oppression in Alaska Natives and postpartum depression screening practices for providers in Alaska and Hawaii. She earned her bachelor’s in psychology at the University of Alaska Anchorage and plans to pursue her PhD in clinical psychology. She desires to use her education to research suicide prevention methods and treatments for Alaska Native people that combine traditional healing practices and western medicine.
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